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PostPosted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 9:14 pm    Post subject: Troubleshoot/diagnose Bad Hardware? Any Free Programs ? Reply with quote

For memory I have MEMTEST and MSDIAG.
For Hard drives I have Drive Fitness Test(DFT)

But for all of the other hardware, I don't have anything. I want a program that can launch off a Linux or windows boot disk.


Anyone know of any?

I want to test the motherboard, CPU, and the cards in PCI bus. Any Ideas?
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 9:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

the best way of testing them is to actually use them. cpuburn can keep your cpu at 100% while you see if it crashes or any strange errors occur, compiling stuff tests your hardware to the max, hardware faults normally come up as segfaults
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 1:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

CPU Burn is a good program.


Anyone have another program? Looking for maybe a bootable one?
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 4:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Anyone?
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