hermus Posted September 15, 2006 Report Share Posted September 15, 2006 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hermus Posted September 15, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2006 While, it is getting worse now. I just want to try the other option "enable ACPI", then when I reboot machine, it stoped at ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/100, 488397168 sectors:lba48 and can not boot further. WHy does acpi cause this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted September 15, 2006 Report Share Posted September 15, 2006 I'd disable this options so you can get it running again. You can press ESC at lilo screen and type: linux acpi=off and it should boot normally again. The other thing, if I didn't mention already in previous places, see if you can get BIOS update for your machine. But be careful, and make sure you get the right BIOS update for your machine. I had one once that wasn't quite the same, and I hosed the BIOS and had to buy a new motherboard, processor and memory. Good excuse for an upgrade though ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hermus Posted September 15, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2006 I have solve the "bootup" problem. Bow it is OK. But for the time problem, I understand it can be dangous to update a bios. Since a non-mandrake kernel gives the correct time (2.6.14.*), so I guess this problem should be able to solve within the "software" level. Is this possible? Best wishes, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted September 15, 2006 Report Share Posted September 15, 2006 Yes - install some other distro... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted September 16, 2006 Report Share Posted September 16, 2006 Installing another distro is a rather extreme solution... (although it might work). Do you dualboot? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hermus Posted September 18, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2006 I use 2.6.12.25 because I had a video card problem before with 2.6.14. I went back to 2.6.14 now, and the clock is fine as expected. Surprisingly, the video card problem also gone. Everything is fine now. Thanks for all the replies. Best wishes, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted September 20, 2006 Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 Wow, nice one, both problems solved :P I remember the graphics prob you had. But good you have the time issue sorted too now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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