I've never done it using to the RTC crystal, but I do it quite frequently in my Day Job to Ethernet controllers on those same pc mother boards.
-Eric On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Sarah White <kuze...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11/30/2012 6:30 PM, Eric Garner wrote: > > the actual RTC on modern (Intel based) PC's is driven from a standard > > 32,768 Hz crystal attached to the PCH. some of them are in incredibly > small > > packages now instead of the old tuning fork-in-a-can ones. peeling off > the > > load caps and crystal from the board would allow you plenty of spaces to > > tack down a lead from an external synthesizer. > > Yeah, the one on the (Soekis) example was pretty small. So far none of > of the replies have indicated that anyone on here has experience beyond > an embedded system. > > Mostly I started this thread because there have been a few with people > discussing implementing NTP on embedded microcontrollers, arduino, etc. > and I was thinking of doing it from the other side (turning a nice-ish > server into a rock-solid timekeeper) > > Thanks so far everyone. Really impressed that I already managed to get > 4x replies so quickly :) > > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > -- --Eric _________________________________________ Eric Garner _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.