[ale] hwclock hangs

[James P. Kinney III]

Target practice?

I would try first a fresh battery (then target practice :) The reinstall
Suse 7.1 If it croaks, the board's clock is going bad. It can be
replaced if you have patience or cash. 

On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 20:21, Jonathan Gardner wrote:
> I have scratched a hole in my head with this one.
> 
> I have an ASUS A7V133. I have been running SuSE 7.1 since it first came 
> out. Yesterday, I went and bought SuSE 8.0. I go to install it, and I 
> fiddled with the partitions to get it the way I liked it, but I made a 
> mistake and got /var and /usr confused and the installation was screwed. 
> No worry, I have a backup of my home directory, so nothing important was 
> lost.
> 
> I go to reinstall it, and during the probing, it hangs.
> 
> I look at another console to see what is happening - it turns on hwclock 
> is hanging. Sure enough, hwclock hangs whenever it is called.
> 
> I run hwclock -D and it says it hangs after it looks for a clock tick. 
> The clock tick never comes.
> 
> I can get aninstallation running, but every time it boots, init hangs on 
> the CMOS clock stage. Hitting CTRL-C will get it to continue. And it 
> doesn't continue quite the way I would like it to.
> 
> I've tried installing older kernels, but the problem persists. Which 
> makes me think it is something to do with my motherboard. Do you think 
> the SuSE 8.0 probing is setting something off and turning off the clock 
> or something? How can I tell? How can I prevent it from happening?
> 
> Someone suggested I replace the battery. Replacing the battery helped 
> for a few times, but then it started hanging again. Of course, it was an 
> old battery, but it wasn't that old. I'm going to go get a newer battery 
> unless I can think of something else.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> 
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