Hi
I got a problem with the system clock. It is running faster and faster. When I rebooted the machine yesterday, it was ok in the beginning, then after a while, it was about 10second faster every 10minutes; then right now, it is more than 3 minutes faster every 10minutes, which is making me crasy.
I have had this problem for a while. I sreached this forum and tried some instructions, but the problem was not solved yet.
1) I have "force no APIC" and "force no local APIC" selected, does not help;
2) I tried ntp, but as many guys mentioned, it sync the time only once when I reboot the machine, after that, it does not work; I tried ianw1974's suggestion by adding one more line in the /etc/ntp.conf, but neither options he gave work in my case.
I am running ntpdate in cron every 10 minutes now, but since it is running faster and faster, I may need to run this command every minute. But there is still a problem, for example, when I want to type an "a", it may come out several like "aaaaaaa". That is crazy.
My machine has AMD Athlon64 dual core, running mandrake 2006.0 (kernel 2.6.12.25). Linux only, no dual boot.
I appreciate your help.
Yong