On Thursday 15 August 2002 7:55 am, Donald R. Spoon wrote: <snip> >The system clock is run in the OS and is quite different from the >"hardware" clock on the MB. <snip> > Things that make heavy use of system resources > will exacerbate this phenomena (KDE, X, large file transferes to & from > the HD, compiling a kernel, graphics, etc.). <snip>
My KDE workstation awhile ago would suddenly jump head 4 or 5 hours, then back. It generally did this within a few seconds, but it was long enough for the screen saver to start up. As per company policy, my screen saver has a password. As it would do this sometimes 3-4 times an hour, you can imagine how frustrating this would be. I have a new workstation now, so I cant reproduce it anymore, but I always attributed it to hardware problems, because it was a really cheap mobo. But you said the system clock only deals with the hardware clock occationally. Does this mean there might have been some other issues? Jay
