System clock issues

YopWongSapn · l33t Joined: 26 Jan 2004 Posts: 627

I have a Compaq R3000z (sweet system) that dual boots with gentoo and winxp. I was running an update emerge for the gentoo side, and noticed that my clock was off (and a few days ahead). So, using the good old date command, I set it back to the correct time. I continued what I was doing, then glanced down at the clock, and it was off again (this time only a few hours ahead).

So I set the time once again, and checked it 5 minutes later. It turns out that for every 5 minutes my clock thinks 20 minutes have passed. In other words, the clock is 4x too fast.

Now, the clock works perfectly in winxp, so I know it's isolated to gentoo. Any thoughts?

Edit: Just ran another test, and after 15 minutes it has only gone up by 25 minutes. Wierd.
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Spooky Ghost · Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 12:21 pm Post subject:

Are you using the cpu freq scaling features for power saving? If you are try building your kernel without these. If problem goes away might be worth checking out LKMA for other reports/fixes.

YopWongSapn · l33t Joined: 26 Jan 2004 Posts: 627

SideShowBob · n00b Joined: 19 Jul 2003 Posts: 2

I had this exact same issue as well. Turns out, I had accidentaly turned on "dynamic overclocking" in my system BIOS. (MSI nforce3 board)

Turning that off in BIOS corrected my problem in Gentoo. Ever since then, it has been rock-freaking-solid!

<3 · Guru Joined: 21 Oct 2004 Posts: 448

I had the same problem
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=252591&highlight=

YopWongSapn · l33t Joined: 26 Jan 2004 Posts: 627

Thanks to you both, but I regret to say that neither of your solutions worked for me. My system's Dynamic Overclocking was already off, and I always set my rc.conf's clock to "local".

Any other ideas?
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Evil Dark Archon · Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 6:36 am Post subject:

i'm not sure of any permanent solutions but a workaround would be to have ntpd running.
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<3 · Guru Joined: 21 Oct 2004 Posts: 448

your battery may be dead.

lavish · Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 7:36 pm Post subject:

Try to: