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- From: teh@acs.ucalgary.ca (Keng H. Teh)
- Subject: HELP: System time unstable
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- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 19:39:21 GMT
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- Hello! I just bought a 486/33 with 128k cache. It's a clone, but it has
- a real Intel chip and an AMI BIOS chip on the board. My system time (i.e.
- the time that DOS prompts you to enter if you don't have an AUTOEXEC.BAT)
- is fluctuating -- it can vary from between +/- 10 seconds to +/- 1 minute
- per day. The strange thing is that it seems to self-correct it somewhat,
- in that if it's +10 seconds now, the next time I boot it up, instead of
- being more than +20 seconds, it will be about +11 to +15 seconds fast only.
- The overall effect seems to be that my system time is slowly speeding up.
-
- I've sent it back to the dealer and he says he's changed a chip on the
- motherboard but it's still giving me problems. Has anyone encountered this
- before and if you have, how did you fix it? I also have an IDE controller
- card for my HD, an SB Pro and a Trident 8900c/1Mb attached, if it makes a
- difference.
-
- K. Teh
-
- p.s. I don't usually read this newsgroup, so if I'm posting in the wrong
- one, no flames please!
-