I really, really do not knooooowww ooooffff another way to describe this problem. In fact, I just had the idea that in this post, I'll type normally (quickly), and you can all experience what I am talking about (e.g. the way the keyboard just freaked out completely and typeeeeeeedddddddd aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabbooout 5 o's and w's and o's and f's in 'know of' (first sentence)))))))))))))..........

IIII'm dead serious. Sometimes, while I type, it is as if the repeat rate goes up to about a million strokes per milliseconnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnddddddddddddddd (honestly, i am not intentionnnnnaaaaaaaaallllllllllyyyyy ddddoooiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnngggg this) and I cannot control it. It's as if my CPU is overclocked to 235,235GHz (it's that fast) or as if the kernel/linux cannot contttttttttttroooool the clockkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk cycles, or,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, i have no idea.

It happens sporadically.

It also effects other things, for exaaaample, someeetttttiiiimmmmeeessssss ttttthings like the animated Gif's on this page run or fflash at one million frames ppppppperrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr second. Everything completely freaks out. Menus are on speed too. Sometimes the mouse. Sometimes things slow down for a second too. Theee clock doesn't keep tiiiime correctly.

I wonder how fast workunits could be crunched this way?

Anyway, I have no idea. IIIIIIiiiittttttttttttt'''''''ssss insane.

Running:
Fedora 32-bit v. 4.2
On:
AMD 64 3800+ X2 (dual-core)
DFI LP UT4 Ultra-D mobo
2x Hitachi SATA 160gb HDD's
Microsoft Keyboard
ATI x800xL video

Please
Help

*edit: this is coming from a sane, friend's PC now:
I also should mention that 1) I have already tried several other distros. The 64 releases tended to just, up and crash after a few days. I have tried w/o complete success CentOS, Ubuntu, Kbuntu, and Mandrake. CentOS, as expected, had the same problem as this. 2) At the PC Perspective forums that I frequent, several people suggested upgrading the kernel, but that is no easy task w/ something like Fedora (is it?), since it has already been carefully tweaked by smarter Linux people to run well. 3) Note that all of my hardware is new, good stuff. 4) Yes, I am technically a noOb, but I've been at this for a month and a half, and I have so far stuck with it, and spent days and days of my life at my computer learning Linux and trying to not give in and go back to Windows - which is so tempting. I have learned a bit. This has become frustrating, and I'm sure some people can relate to my problem.

This also is my first post, but trust me, I'll be right here checking it out all of the time.

This is insane and desperate.
-Alllheeim

Does the time increment too fast as well? IE. if you set your clock to be the same as another in the room will it eventually become noticeably farther ahead, and if so, how long does it take for that to happen?

EDIT: Sorry, I missed the part about the clock not keeping good time... I've heard about a problem like this before, I'm going to do a little searching and get back to you.

Just to make sure....you are on planet earth?

But without joking perhaps this thread will help with fixing the time problem:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/344642

I would guess that fixing the time problem also fixes your keyboard repeats. If your clock is running at 3 times normal speed, that would make the keyboard repeat delay 3 times shorter; e.g., a 660 msec delay (which is what mine is set at) would, to the system, seem to occur in only 220 msec.

Good luck!

Thanks to everyone so far who has replied..

That's interesting and true, and I have thought that exact thing - however, my problem is sporadic, and not completely consistent. The time is definitely running too fast, but it isn't as though everything is always running too fast. Like I said, it's sporadic.

I'm not at my computer right now, but I'll try to change that line in the /boot/grub/grub.conf file as soon as I can. If I have to, I'll go on and attempt some kernel changes, but I've sorta tried to install a new kernel, and it sorta blows my mind to do that.

Until then, I still really appreciate any input that anyone else might have on this situation. I hopefully am still waiting on a reply from jtshaw.

Thank you,
-Alheim

woOt? (bump!)