I have been fighting the same problem for several months now and only today solved the problem.
My machine is an emachines model T6212 and has a ATI graphics card as well SIS network card. I mention this because on a number of posts in the net concerning this issue these two pieces of hardware (as well as NVIDIA graphics cards) are cited as being part of / associated with the problem. After trying a very large number of suggested changes -- most involving altering the boot line to the kernel with flags such as noapic nolapic apic apic=noirq no_timer_check etc. I found a solution (at least for me). A post somewhere mentioned that this was not a software problem (or at least no a kernel problem) per se. Rather it was a BIOS problem and that upgrading the system BIOS would solve the problem. I went to the manufacturer's web site and sure enough there was a bios patch available that corrected for a problem associated with NVIDIA graphics cards. I downloaded it, flashed my BIOS and amazingly enough my system has been keeping perfect time since. Hope this works for you. Andrew Burns -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
