system clock misbehaving

Craig Goodyear cjhs22a at swbell.net
Thu Jun 1 18:11:29 UTC 2006


Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> On 31/05/06, Craig Goodyear <cjhs22a at swbell.net> wrote:
>> When I installed FC5, the clock began gaining a lot using the 2.6.16
>> kernels. I had no clock problems with FC4 using the kernels prior to
>> 2.6.16.  I found the problem to be my motherboard / chipset.  I am using
>> a MSI K7N2 motherboard with Nvidia nForce2 chipset.  I found by
>> disabling the FSB spread spectrum in the BIOS, the problem went away.
>> If you have a Nvidia nForce2 chipset, you may want to test this work 
>> around.
> 
> Have you filed a bug report about this? It would help other users if
> you did so, as it would hopefully get fixed upstream.
> 
> Jonathan
> 

I did file a bug report on 3/30/06, see:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=187364

Craig





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