[ntp:questions] Are these Windows XP clients beyond hope?
Brad Knowles
brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Mon Sep 19 09:01:49 UTC 2005
At 4:07 AM +0100 2005-09-19, Neil Trotter wrote:
> All machines are keeping good time except 2 of the windows XP clients at
> one of the sites, and these are drifting wildly. Since all the config
> files are similar, and 2 other XP clients on the same network (with
> identical config files) are staying sync'd, is this just a case of
> hopelessly bad hardware clocks, or is there something else I can try?
Check the hardware configuration of those machines. They may
have ACPI, APIC, or BIOS issues which might need to be resolved. See
<http://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Support/TroubleshootingNTP>, especially
the first two sections.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad at stop.mail-abuse.org>
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania
Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755
SAGE member since 1995. See <http://www.sage.org/> for more info.
More information about the questions
mailing list