Bootable system stability test program?

[OhioGuy]

Anyone know of a system stability tester program you can put on a CD and
boot from? I'd like for the whole thing to be independent of the hard
drive, because I've put together a system using a number of new parts, and
the thing is definitely having problems. I've gotten some messages that
make me think it might be an issue with the hard drive, so something that
could run without installing to the hard drive would be great. (then, if it
runs stable testing the other components, it would be yet another indicator
that the hard drive might be the issue)

I've got Stress Prime 2004, which tests the memory & CPU, but it installs
the program to the hard drive. I've had the system shut down a couple of
times when running that. I've also had other programs I've installed become
corrupted and not run. Recently, trying to install Win XP to a new
partition and format kept giving interesting issues about hard drive
sectors. This thing really has some stability issues, and I'd like to try
to figure out what is causing the problem.


Thanks!

 

[meerkat]

Anyone know of a system stability tester program you can put on a CD and
boot from? I'd like for the whole thing to be independent of the hard
drive, because I've put together a system using a number of new parts, and
the thing is definitely having problems. I've gotten some messages that
make me think it might be an issue with the hard drive, so something that
could run without installing to the hard drive would be great. (then, if
it runs stable testing the other components, it would be yet another
indicator that the hard drive might be the issue)

I've got Stress Prime 2004, which tests the memory & CPU, but it installs
the program to the hard drive. I've had the system shut down a couple of
times when running that. I've also had other programs I've installed
become corrupted and not run. Recently, trying to install Win XP to a new
partition and format kept giving interesting issues about hard drive
sectors. This thing really has some stability issues, and I'd like to try
to figure out what is causing the problem.

D/load the hard drive manufacturers hard drive test
tools, and use those.
You`ll be able to get them, either for floppy, or CD.