[mythtv-users] OT: System clock running very slow

[Ronald Frazier]

> Anyone have any ideas as to what is causing the clock to slow so much. I may
> have done package updates which could have caused this. Anyone else having a
> similar problem?

Could the battery on your motherboard be dying? Although I would only
expect the battery to be necessary while power is off, I've heard of
cases where it slows the clock even while the system is running.
Whether or not that's true or not I can't say (I've never actually had
a motherboard battery die on me).

I don't know if the bios screen gives you a way to check the voltage,
but if not you can pull it out and test the voltage with a multimeter
(just be warned that doing so will probably cause you to lose your
bios settings). Alternatively, if it's possible to shut your system
down for a length of time, you could see if the skew only happens when
running (if so, I think that would eliminate the possibility of the
battery being the issue). For example, by your report it should lose
about 3 to 4 minutes every hour it's running. So, reboot and go into
the bios screen. Synchronize the bios clock it with a reliable watch,
power it off for an hour, then power it on and go back to the bios,
and see how much skew there was.

-- 
Ron