timer goes too fast

[fabrizio carraro <fabrizio@smallLinux.ccir.ed.ac.uk>]

Hi, I have a strange problem with two Elonex 486 machines running Linux (a
486/25 and a 486/33). The internal timer sometimes start running at double
speed, so that the time of the day is wrong. If I turn them off and on
the timer works fine, maybe for a week or two, maybe just for one hour,
then it starts going at double speed again. I didn't try if it is the same
under DOS, but I think it was ok.
It looks like if the timer is reprogrammed with some wrong value. Has
anybody heard of a similar problem?

fabrizio