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On Jun 11, 2000 at 21:18, terrence d'souza wrote:
>--- Satya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I suppose that's the system oscillator. Nothing
>> would work without that.
>Noo that is not the system clock. The system
>clock (ISA) is 14.31818 MHz. The CPU clock is
>usually a 100MHz xtal (which is multiplied by a
[snip]
>bios clock is derived from the 14.31818 Mhz xtal
>and is divided by the 8253 timer chip embedded in
>the chipset. If this clock is broken your Multi
>tasking system wont work (dos will work) cause
>there will be no hardware timer interrupt.
Well, Linux was working except the parts which depend on Linux having a
wristwatch (as opposed to a stopwatch). My box broke its wristwatch, but
the stopwatch was working. Now everything is fine, but I wanna know what
caused it and how to correct it.
Also, Linux keeps setting the wrong time at boot now, because it was
confused by the frozen clock earlier. (This is not a question. This is
FYI).
--
Satya. <URL:http://satya.virtualave.net/>
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