Comment by thr0w__4w4y

Instead of 1ms, try running the math if the tick rate instead was 1.024ms, (1024 usec).

These things are often driven with a 32.768 MHz crystal, in case anyone's wondering why not just a nice even 1.000ms.

On another forum I talked about way long ago, when I had to debug a huge system that reset after 248.x days of uptime. Yep, run the math...