[CentOS] Clock Drifts Off

Jim Perrin jperrin at gmail.com
Fri Feb 2 23:14:34 UTC 2007


On 2/2/07, Matt <lm7812 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I installed CentOS 4.4 32 bit on a dual core AMD64 motherboad.  Its a
> Tyan Tomcat K8E motherboard with socket 939.  The clock keeps drifting
> off like 5+ minutes an hour.  Run ntpupdate hourly to compensate.
>
> Any ideas why or how to fix?

Probably a buggy/unsupported apci setup. Look for a bios update, or
use the kernel options 'clock=pmtmr' or 'clock=pit'

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