probable hardware bug: clock timer configuration lost - probably a VIA686a

Hi all,

I get a lot of these messages when the system is busy:

probable hardware bug: clock timer configuration lost - probably a VIA686a. probable hardware bug: restoring chip configuration.
probable hardware bug: clock timer configuration lost - probably a VIA686a. probable hardware bug: restoring chip configuration.

On: Linux version 2.2.19 (maurice@komodo) (gcc version 2.95.4 20010319 (Debian prerelease)) #3 Wed Aug 22 23:17:20 CEST 2001 Running Debian Potato (stable)

The system is a Intel Pentium 120
The motherboard is a Jetway 542C having the ALI 1542-m1543 aladdin-V chipset (according to the manual)

This is from /proc/pci:
PCI devices found:
Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
Host bridge: Acer Labs Unknown device (rev 4).
Vendor id=10b9. Device id=1541.
Slow devsel. Master Capable. Latency=32. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd0000000 [0xd0000000].
Bus 0, device 1, function 0:
PCI bridge: Acer Labs Unknown device (rev 4).
Vendor id=10b9. Device id=5243.
Slow devsel. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=6.
Bus 0, device 7, function 0:
ISA bridge: Acer Labs M1533 Aladdin IV (rev 195).
Medium devsel. Master Capable. No bursts.
Bus 0, device 8, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: ATI 210888GX (rev 1).
Medium devsel. IRQ 11.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd5000000 [0xd5000000].
Bus 0, device 15, function 0:
IDE interface: Acer Labs M5229 TXpro (rev 194).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable.
Latency=32.
Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=4.

      I/O at 0x2000 [0x2001].

The system further has 2 ISA etherworks3 network cards and that's about it.

Does anyone know what this means? Can I provide useful information (please tell me how). The system once crashed under heavy load. Memtest86 sais the memory is OK, so I'm a bit worried the error has something to do with it.

regards,
Olivier