On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 11:12:25AM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: > Hello, > > I migrated from an X7SPA to an X9SCM-F-O and now gpsd/ntp no longer sync > with my GPS unit: > http://www.amazon.com/GlobalSat-BU-353-USB-GPS-Receiver/dp/B000PKX2KA > > I did some digging and it looks like the system clock on this motherboard > with the latest BIOS (2.00a) runs 1 second too fast when comparing to other > NTP-synchronized machines. > > When comparing the clock on this vs. an atomic clock, the system clock is ~1 > second faster, which is probably why the GPS has problems syncing. > > Is this a faulty motherboard clock or is this an issue with Ivy Bridge (I am > using an E3-1200 V2 CPU) with the X9SCM-F-O and BIOS 2.00a?
I've never had to do this for bare hardware, but my virtual machines keep better time if I add the boot paramter divider=10. -- E Frank Ball [email protected] _______________________________________________ pool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool
