[OT] Major Clock Drift

From: Josh Myer (jbm@joshisanerd.com)
Date: Sat Feb 03 2001 - 23:32:36 EST

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    Hello all,

    I know this _really_ isn't the forum for this, but a friend of mine has
    noticed major, persistent clock drift over time. After several weeks, the
    clock is several minutes slow (always slow). Any thoughts on the
    cause? (Google didn't show up anything worthwhile in the first couple of
    pages, so i gave up).

    I assume it doens't matter what the mains frequency is (since we're
    pulling from a crystal for this anyway). I think i'd heard mention of
    problems with other interrupts interrupting the timer often enough that
    the time got slowed down, but really?

    It's a relatively new Athlon, not sure of the mobo model. If it is a
    hardware problem, i'll find out the model, since that would strike me as
    an errata =)

    Thanks for indulging an idle hardware question 

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