Is there an utility that can check problems on your motherboard?

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Is there an utility that can check problems on your motherboard? When I
turn my PC on I often find that it stalls with the message that the
secondary drive has a failure & press PF4 to continue. The machine then
boots up OK. I have been getting this message for a very long time. I know
that the problem isn't as suggested the hard drive because I have several
drives & from time to time I have changed them over so that a different one
was the 'c' drive.
 
Is it referring to the Secondary IDE Controller? You could try
uninstalling it from Device Manager and let
XP reinstall it.
 
Videot said:
Is there an utility that can check problems on your motherboard? When I
turn my PC on I often find that it stalls with the message that the
secondary drive has a failure & press PF4 to continue. The machine then
boots up OK. I have been getting this message for a very long time. I know
that the problem isn't as suggested the hard drive because I have several
drives & from time to time I have changed them over so that a different one
was the 'c' drive.
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Try Tufftest (there is a free version) from http://www.tufftest.com

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."
 
This looks like an interesting program although I don't see any free
versions. I know that Norton's Systemsworks used to also have this type of
utility but it doesn't seem to be in the current suite.
 
Videot said:
This looks like an interesting program although I don't see any free
versions. I know that Norton's Systemsworks used to also have this type of
utility but it doesn't seem to be in the current suite.
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The line of links across the top of the page (right below the "#1-PC
Diagnostics Company" banner) has a total of 10 links.

The fourth from the left reads "Free". Did you try clicking on that?



Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."
 
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