Back in the day...

[Guest]

So, back in the day (round ‘92), I had a self booting utility that would run
a diagnostic test on my computer. It would test everything from the mother to
the ram and hard drive. Does anyone know of any good software that does that
now. I have been out of the repair loop for a bit. Thanks

 

[Mark F.]

So, back in the day (round '92), I had a self booting utility that would
run
a diagnostic test on my computer. It would test everything from the mother
to
the ram and hard drive. Does anyone know of any good software that does
that
now. I have been out of the repair loop for a bit. Thanks

Back in 1992?? Oh my god that was like forever man!
<g>

.... and yes, CheckIT works fairly well. It's not free, around $69 us. There
are others too. Just Google "PC Diagnostic Software".

http://www.smithmicro.com/default.tpl?group=product_full&sku=CKDWINEE

It is best practice to let such utilities run overnight so the program loops
through several times. That way you're more likely to find an error
(especially with RAM).

Also check with the folks at : alt.comp.hardware

(c;
Mark

 

[Mike Lowery]

So, back in the day (round '92), I had a self booting utility that would run
a diagnostic test on my computer. It would test everything from the mother to
the ram and hard drive. Does anyone know of any good software that does that
now. I have been out of the repair loop for a bit. Thanks

That's usually provided by the OEM of the computer.

 

[Guest]

I seem to remmeber that it was something I just pick up some where, but it
work on any computer. It was a basic boot dos disk with this utilty on it. I
just don't remmeber the name of it.

 

[Malke]

I seem to remmeber that it was something I just pick up some where, but it
work on any computer. It was a basic boot dos disk with this utilty on it. I
just don't remmeber the name of it.

Ultimate CD is one. Most of us techs use some variant of that,
Linux-based live CDs (I like Knoppix), Bart's PE, etc.


Malke

 

[Guest]

I have checkit, not free though

Ultimate CD is one. Most of us techs use some variant of that,
Linux-based live CDs (I like Knoppix), Bart's PE, etc.


Malke
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[Plato]

Back in 1992?? Oh my god that was like forever man!
<g>

... and yes, CheckIT works fairly well. It's not free, around $69 us. There
are others too. Just Google "PC Diagnostic Software".

http://www.smithmicro.com/default.tpl?group=product_full&sku=CKDWINEE

Grin, Yes, I'm a past user of checkit, never helped back then tho either