Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 Apr 2002 14:49:23 +0100 | From | Chris Wilson <> | Subject | Re: P4/i845 Strange clock drifting |
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Hi Mikael,
I've now applied your patch so that APIC's get enabled even though the bios has disabled them.
I really should have saved the dmi messages to another machine when the machine first came up as it appears to have crashed now :(
The machine was completely idle other than for an ssh session running ntpdate every ten minutes (my original problem is that the clock appears to stop/slow down periodically).
From memory the dmi messages just had a bios date, and the mobo model (Supermicro P4SBE). Once I've got the NOC to reboot the system I'll switch it back to a kernel that doesn't attempt to enable the APIC and send you the full dmi strings.
> This should work (and is known to work on many P6 and K7 boards), > but your BIOS may have problems with the local APIC. > - does apm --suspend work? does the resume afterwards work?
I don't have APM support compiled in and will have disabled anything power management related in the BIOS setup.
I guess that I'm not going to get APIC going on this system then - does anyone have any other suggestions on what to try next to debug the clock drift problem? Short of dropping the server into the nearest skip....
Are the APIC thing and the clock thing likely to be related??
Cheers,
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