Fast clock a bad thing?

[Auger]

The CMOS battery should have no effect on the system clock when it is powered up.  The CMOS clock is only there so that the system can get a somewhat accurate time at boot.  You can synchronize the system clock to the CMOS clock in Linux,  but that should only be done at boot time.

There was some other problem if the system clock ran that fast.  There are lots of possibilities, but the CMOS clock shouldn't do that.

[Fulmar]

Originally posted by Auger
There was some other problem if the system clock ran that fast.  There are lots of possibilities, but the CMOS clock shouldn't do that.

We were baffled by it.  I know the system clock was fine before the new CMOS battery and setting up IPCop (the linux firewall) should not have altered anything remotely to affect the warp speed system clock.