Re: GSC 3493-1324

[Thomas Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net>]

Peter,

Thank you very much.  It is a great help to understand the problem.  This
started happening when I replaced the old TOM1 computer with a new Shuttle
machine.  I had bought a few of these machines as spares because they were
the only new machine that I could find with an ISA slot.

I am running Windows 98.  I am dam... if I am going to buy any more Windows
licenses.  So we will stick with the problem until I can get Rob's linux
system up and running.

It never seems to happen when running, and if it did I think that the data
reduction would just fail.  I catch it when I turn on and set the clocks
after being off for several days.

With the new linux system I will be able to go to the internet and set the
clocks when one of you tells me how.  ;^)

Tom


> [Original Message]
> From: Peter Mount <peter@retep.org.uk>
> To: <tdroege2@earthlink.net>
> Cc: tass@listserv.wwa.com <tass@listserv.wwa.com>
> Date: 6/6/2004 6:39:33 AM
> Subject: Re: GSC 3493-1324
>
> Thomas Droege wrote:
> > A one day error is not likely for this date.  That is nothing funny has
> > happened to the computer clocks this year except that  I have caught the
> > TOM1 computer jumping several hours.  This seems to happen when the
> > computer has been sitting idle for a day or so.
>
> Tom, I've seen this problem before on Windows systems (especially Win98 
> but only with the Win9x kernels). Usually it is when idle for a few 
> days, but not always.
>
> In one case that I can remember, it went so loopy that it was advancing 
> one hour a second. Only a reboot would stop it. In that case it was idle 
> only for a few hours (it was a users desktop machine).
>
> I've never seen it occur on NT based systems.
>
> Peter
>
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