This particular motherboard is an ASUS CUV4X-DLS, the chipset is a
VIA694XDP, the IDE chipset however is a VIA686b.

I've seen this in all the kernels I've tried with the "ac" patches.

Any kernel I've tried that are NOT SMP work fine.


On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 10:26:26PM -0400, Byron Stanoszek wrote:
> > This does not seem to fix the problem with "clock timer", which
> > repeatedly prints the following message:
> > 
> > probable hardware bug: clock timer configuration lost - probably a VIA686a motherboard.
> > probable hardware bug: restoring chip configuration.
> 
> I've seen this on my Dell P3 700 machine several times. Seems to happen at odd
> intervals after I use my CD burner, but that just might be coincidental. But
> I'd like to point out that I've never seen this on my VIA686a itself. The P3
> machine is UP too, not SMP. I saw this ever since I switched the machine to
> 2.4.2-ac8 and beyond (previously 2.2.18).
> 
>  -Byron

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