I am using an HP Pavilion zv5320us laptop. I have installed Slackware 10, Novell Linux Desktop(suse), and Gentoo on it. All these have the same problem: The system clock runs about 3x too fast on most bootups. It is a random problem, but it occurs more often than not. I have tried upgrading my bios to the latest available version with no change. I have read all the other threads pertaining to this problem that I could find. All of the threads just end with no solution presented. I'm just wondering if anyone with this series of laptop (zv5000) has found a workaround for this problem. Any help at all would be appreciated.

Thanks!

cchoate

How about it's a known problem with some HP laptops. Previously, I had only heard about it on systems with an AMD 64 CPU. If this is what powers your zv5320 system then this could be the same problem. If so, there was a work-around included in the late Fedora Core 4 test releases and the initial release and reportedly a permanent fix in the latest FC4 kernel update. This will probably get included in other distros shortly. Take a look at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla...cgi?id=152630.

If you don't have an AMD 64 CPU, you have a different problem.

DaveAtFraud,

Thanks for the reply. I do have an AMD Athlon XP 3000+ so this is very helpful info that you have provided. Again, thanks!

cchoate