From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 26 14: 5:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jgl.reno.nv.us (rno-max6-27.gbis.net [207.228.61.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D77737B52E for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2000 14:05:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Received: from danco (danco.home [10.0.0.2]) by jgl.reno.nv.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA04292; Sat, 26 Feb 2000 14:03:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Message-ID: <114601bf80a5$6a87b120$0200000a@danco.home> From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "Doug Barton" Cc: "freebsd-questions" Subject: Re: My machine prints "calcru: negative time..." Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 13:55:02 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> 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. Mine is an old Dimension XPS 90 MoBo in an even-older Austin 486 desktop box, all cobbled together from the discards of other upgrades gone by... I haven't really found a reboot pattern that gets me up to speed any faster. I've tried random mixtures of power-down-and-wait-a-few-seconds cycles, reset switch cycles, and 'shutdown -r now' cycles. It just seems to come up at 90MHz when it's good and ready. Well, every computer has its quirks. At least we know what ours are :-) --Dan ** The thing I like most about Windows 98 is... ** You can download FreeBSD with it! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message