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> All it needs is a configuration error somewhere, and either the kernel
> or the BIOS maps some important data port to the address of one of the
> relevant timer's preset registers, and one gets a totally random
> frequency for the timer interrupt.
Thanks for the info. One learns something new each day...
Anyway, this must be a kernel problem then?
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