Interesting. This is a KA7 with all power management turned off in the latest Abit BIOS. > The kernel puts the timer back and life appears happy again Ahhh. The kernel *is* god. Alan Cox wrote: > > > Feb 26 00:19:52 abit kernel: probable hardware bug: clock timer > > configuration lost - probably a VIA686a. > > Feb 26 00:19:52 abit kernel: probable hardware bug: restoring chip > > configuration. > > Feb 26 00:26:53 abit xntpd[886]: synchronized to 132.239.254.5, > > stratum=2 > > ... > > Small number of VIA 686 boxes randomly jump from 100Hz back to the DOS 18Hz > timeout. We dont know if its hardware or maybe APM bios bugs. The kernel puts > the timer back and life appears happy again -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/