[lug] non-linear loss of time

Benjamin Manthey benjamin.manthey at colorado.edu
Sun May 18 18:26:31 MDT 2003


I think a flaky power supply would cause much worse problems then what you
are seeing. 

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Subject: Re: [lug] non-linear loss of time


On 03-05-18 10:00 -0600, Nate Duehr wrote:
> The dying CMOS battery was mentioned, another possibility if the 
> computer is very old and losing time only when it's on, is that this 
> could be an indication of a noisy power supply failing, or an 
> oscillator (crystal) that's not working properly anymore.
> 

I hadn't thought of the power supply because it is fairly new.  But that
doesn't mean it isn't the culprit.  As for the oscillator, I was thinking if
something along the lines of this was failing, it would be degrading the
time in a linear fashion.  Am I just off on this?

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