After multiple failures trying to rebuild a PC and install openSUSE 12.1 (plus discovering one HDD was broke) I’ve run the Firmware Test option from the install disk and it’s reported multiple FAILs.
Here’s some of the output …
[FAIL]
F Failed to locate HPET base
[FAIL] DMI information check
F No SMBIOS nor DMI entry point found
[FAIL] CPU frequency scaling tests (1-2 mins)
4 CPU frequency steps supported
F Supposed higher frequency is slower on CPU 0!
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F Supposed higher frequency is slower on CPU 1!
F Supposed higher frequency is slower on CPU 2!
F Supposed higher frequency is slower on CPU 3!
F Processors are set to SW_ANY
F Firmware not implementing hardware coordination cleanly. Firmware using SW_ALL instead?
[FAIL] MTTR
F Memory range 0xc80000000 to 0xdfffffff (PCI Bus 0000:00) has incorrect attribute write-combining
[FAIL] OS/2 memory hole test
F The memory map has a memory hole between 15Mb and 16Mb
Are these killer failures?
Is my M/B dead in the water?
Is there anywhere I can find out what all this information means?
Alan
Asus M4A88DT, AMD Phenom II X4 84 CPU + 8Gb RAM