Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!news.funet.fi!fuug!demos!jvdrd!ale
From: ale@jvd.msk.su (Aleksey Odinokov)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: PC Clock running 6 times too fast!
Message-ID: <1991Mar27.165131.2579@jvd.msk.su>
Date: 27 Mar 91 16:51:31 GMT
References: <1991Mar21.135311.12541@lonex.radc.af.mil> <25620003@col.hp.com>
Reply-To: ale@jvd.msk.su (Alexey Odinokov)
Organization: JV Dialogue, Moscow, USSR
Lines: 30

In article <25620003@col.hp.com> mikek@col.hp.com (Mike Karin) writes:
>This a bug that was found almost immediately after stargoose was posted
>to the net.  I haven't seen an updated version yet or a good patch.  The
>problem is with the DOS clock rather than the CMOS, so rebooting your 
>machine after playing stargoose will put the clock back where it belongs.
>(at least it does on my machine :-) )

Compile the following C code, run it after stargoose and it will calm
down your overexcited machine.

Alexey.

calmdown.c:

main()
{
	disable();
	outp( 0x43, 0x36 );
	outp( 0x40, 0xff );
	outp( 0x40, 0xff );
	enable();
}



-- 
	Alexey Odinokov                          Phone: +7 (095) 329-4700
	ale@jvd.msk.su                             FAX: +7 (095) 329-4711
---- Best while you've it use your breath: there is no drinking after death ---
                                                               ( Shakespeare? )