From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 26 12:54:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D162C37BB1C for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2000 12:54:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@simplenet.com) Received: from simplenet.com (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA27873; Sat, 26 Feb 2000 12:54:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@simplenet.com) Message-ID: <38B83D83.CAF87CF@simplenet.com> Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 12:54:27 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Dan O'Connor" Cc: Paul Murphy , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: My machine prints "calcru: negative time..." References: <0ff301bf8096$dc1cfc00$0200000a@danco.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dan O'Connor wrote: > I have an old Dell Pentium 90 that randomly boots up at a reported processor > speed of 55, 76, 83, 87 and 89 MHz. I have to keep rebooting over and over > until it finally settles in at 90.21 MHz. If I leave it at anything below 85 > MHz, I get "calcru" errors non-stop... That's funny, I have a 6 year old dell dimensions xps90 and I have the same problem. I've found that if I power off the system for 10 or 20 seconds then power it back on it almost always comes back with the correct clock speed. I too think it's a quirk of this old classic, I've never seen any other dells with this quirk. Doug -- "Welcome to the desert of the real." - Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus, "The Matrix" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message