Subject: Re: Clock problems...
From: Tom (thogland@alaskatech.org)
Date: Mon Nov 05 2001 - 16:41:19 AKST
On 5 Nov 2001, Greg Hoch wrote:
> I am having a problem with the system clock and possibly the power
> saving settings. The pc will randomly go to a blank screen for a moment
> almost like a sleep mode and when it comes back the clock will be 9
> hours behind. The nine hours probably has something to do with the
> Alaska time zone being -9 but I don't think this is a hardware problem
> as it is a dual boot machine and this problem has never happened in
> Windows. I am running Linux-Mandrake 8.0 and using the KDE for a
> desktop enviroment. The hardware is a generic 400 mhz Celeron with
> 150MB RAM. I have checked the power saver settings from the KDE Control
> panel and don't see where it is set to sleep or anything like that. Is
> there anyplace else that I should be looking ? Or does anyone have any
> other suggestions ?
Well, I have an MSI board with snooze settings in the BIOS - is it
possible those are enabled and overriding KDE?
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