Re: [tlug] [OT] Hardware problem ? Clock advances very fast (Modem lights blink very rapidly

[Cristiano Paris <paris@example.com>]

> Hi,
> I got a new machine 2 months ago and sometimes in Windows 98 SE,
the system
> clock advances very fast. It covers like 15-20 minutes in 10
minutes. If I
> am connected to the net, modem lights blink very fast. The cursor also
> blinks very fast.
> Dont remember seeing anything like that in Linux. This is an Asus
> motherboard .

Is this a joke :-)?

Seems like the kernel is incorrectly handling the interrupt timer which
is set to a shorter interval than the kernel expect.

Anyway it's a weird behaviour for such a system... very strange... maybe
a partial hardware failure on the mobo (the kernel set the timer to
X but the mobo receives Y<X... this can happen if some of the lower
bits are being set to zero, i.e. the lines involved in the transfer are
broken... this is the case of a parallel communication between CPU and
the timer hardware).

Cristiano

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