Re: AMD Quad Core clock problem?

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Sun Apr 13 2008 - 15:36:27 EST


Lennart Sorensen wrote:

I have found that ntp tends to fail to work on any machine with spread
spectrum clocking enabled. On those machines disabling spread specturm
in the BIOS seems to fix it. I had to update the BIOS on one machine to
even get the option to disable it though.


"Any machine with spread spectrum clocking" is a pretty outrageous claim, since that includes just about 100% of all machines built today -- it's virtually impossible getting RFI certification without it.

-hpa
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