I ran a firmware test, after I discovered a bad memory stick on a 1 gb stick. Replaced my memory stick and just for grins ran a firmware test and I don’t understand this:
[Fail] Failed to locate HPET base
[Fail] OS/2 memory hole test-The memory map has a memory hole between 15mb & 16mb.
Re-ran MEMTEST just to make sure my new memory was fine, no errors.
My Linux OS appears to be running slower on boot-up than normal, What documentation there is on the internet on HPET is over my head
I ran SMART on the both drives. They were good. So I am a little stumpted.
I ran a firmware test, after I discovered a bad memory stick on a 1 gb stick. Replaced my memory stick and just for grins ran a firmware test and I don’t understand this:
[Fail] Failed to locate HPET base
[Fail] OS/2 memory hole test-The memory map has a memory hole between 15mb & 16mb.
Re-ran MEMTEST just to make sure my new memory was fine, no errors.
My Linux OS appears to be running slower on boot-up than normal, What documentation there is on the internet on HPET is over my head
I ran SMART on the both drives. They were good. So I am a little stumped.
HPET (High Precision Event Timers) is a BIOS setting I would think as well as is OS/2 support, which is pretty much dead. I am not sure I would worry about either of these two errors. Of course, if you have a real memory error, data can be corrupted, but saying the system is slow now is a subjective thing. Perhaps you just need to clear out the temp caches and such as doing the following and rebooting:
Open /etc/sysconfig/cronas root, search for a line saying
CLEAR_TMP_DIRS_AT_BOOTUP=“no”
…and edit “no” to “yes”. This could also be done via GUI: YaST → “Editor for /etc/sysconfig”.
Otherwise, there is always reloading openSUSE as a possible solution if the memory errors have corrupted the installation somehow.
Open /etc/sysconfig/cronas root, search for a line saying
CLEAR_TMP_DIRS_AT_BOOTUP=“no”
…and edit “no” to “yes”. This could also be done via GUI: YaST → “Editor for /etc/sysconfig”.
Be careful with this setting. I had it too, just thought it is good system maintenance. …then …I was working on a letter (OO) and we had an power blackout. restart…could not recover the file. I changed the setting to 2 (days)
Be careful with this setting. I had it too, just thought it is good system maintenance. …then …I was working on a letter (OO) and we had an power blackout. restart…could not recover the file. I changed the setting to 2 (days)
otto_oz, thanks for the heads up on that. I put my computer on a UPS (APC Backups 900 XL) and so power failures while working on stuff is not a problem. I did have a power supply on the same computer go bad and the hard disk I had at the time got zapped. So, using two days or 2 years would not have helped me. None the less, I would not have considered this issue and so I shall add it to my recommendations. Thanks so much for the very helpful information.