Intel is putting out a white paper on the CE effect pretty soon. See this link

http://www.intel.com/support/year2000/c-e-wp.htm

Seems they are having a lot of trouble even confirming that the CE effect really exists.

-- Paul Davis (davisp1953@yahoo.com), January 07, 1999

Answers

One begins to think that the CE effect is but a special case of the general instability of hte clocks in our computers. I have seen, before setting up socket watch, an interesting instability in the clock. Now, socket watch covers this, and I can find out how much it corrected, if I want to, anytime.

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-- Chuck, night driver (rienzoo@en.com), January 07, 1999.

Chuck, can you give more info on the "Socket Watch" (references). One of my computers has an Asus TX-97 with lots of cards (sound, modem, Adaptec scsi, Matrox display with Rainbow Runner and TV, etc.) and it loses about 1 hour per month. It's very erratic and sometimes off by a whole day.

-- Jon (jonmiles@pacbell.net), January 07, 1999.