Both the VIA and ALiMagiK boards utilize Winbond chips. There is nothing wrong with these boards, but there is a -BIG- bug with the Winbond clock/timer chips.
These Winbond chips are what keeps the real time clock going during power offs, etc. It seems that the Winbond clocks will randomly change their reference tick rate, as if they had a bad crystal reference. As a result they will pick up or loose speed. Fortunately Linux tries to work around this and set things right (BTW: Windows does not and you'll gain or loose 15 minutes a day or MORE as a result!), but you'll start to see a slew of messages about this in the kernel logs. You might want to turn this off, and/or not use these boards if you are performing anything which is time intensive. Linux uses an IRQ drive clock to keep it's own separate system clock and then writes out it's time to the CMOS/hardware clock upon power down. This is not foolproof though, and you should really set your machine to a time reference in the Control Panel, so that Linux will adjust itself several times a day. -JMS |-----Original Message----- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Robert MacLean |Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 7:33 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH | | |Does any here use the GA-7ZXH motherboard with M8 or M8.1? |I want to buy it but I just want to see if it will work first. |I checked mandrakes hardware list and they had the GA-7ZXR |(raid version), so I think it will, but I just want to check |first. It uses the VIA KT133A chipset. thanx | |___________________________________________ |Robert MacLean | | | |
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