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From: berger@iboga (Mike Berger)
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Subject: Re: Runaway Motherboard
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Date: 29 Jan 91 21:08:31 GMT
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jdalin@devildog.att.com (Jimmy Dalin) writes:

>He recently purchased a 386-20 motherboard at a computer show.  (Editorial
>comment: I'm beginning to think that purchasing AYNTHING at a computer show
>is a bad idea.)  It worked just fine for about 6 months.  Now, however, if
>he runs a program that displays the time in hours:minutes:seconds format, he
>can see that the seconds tick off about three times as fast as real clock
>seconds.  To complicate the situation , the problem is sporadic.  Also, the
>machine hangs up shortly after the symptoms appear.
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Does he run Stargoose?  It has a known bug in that it leaves one of the
timer interrupts running at 3x normal speed.  I'd check for a software
cause first.
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	Mike Berger
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