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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!gatech!news.sprintlink.net!warp.cris.com!usenet From: grep@cris.com (George) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: system clock "ticks" five times slower than it should Date: 3 Jun 1995 21:28:52 GMT Organization: Concentric Internet Services Lines: 19 Message-ID: <3qqk6k$4bd@warp.cris.com> References: <3qkn4e$k0t@peanuts.materna.de> <3qmqnr$sr8@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: crc6.cris.com To: Juergen X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #3 In article <3qmqnr$sr8@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>, j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote: >Nope, there isn't necessarily needed such a crystal. It's the input >frequency of the timer circuits, and normally derived from the 14.XXX >MHz bus clock (BUSCLK/8). > >Is your DOS internal clock (not the CMOS one) also wrong? It's hard >to believe that this is a FreeBSD only problem. I suspect you've got >something wrong with your BIOS/Chipset setup. > Yeah, it might be something VERY simple, like the CMOS or that little "TURBO" switch that some systems have. It might be in the wrong position or not hooked up (what is the default for an open connector?). George grep@cris.com