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Re: OT: PC hardware diagnostics
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Edward Berner <[log in to unmask]>
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Edward Berner <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:17:23 -0500
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On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:12:42 -0800, Dave Powell, MMfab <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Anybody have any experience / recommendations?   I'm looking for hardware
>tests that can be run from a bootable CD, completely bypassing Windows.  I've
>done some searches and found a few products that claim to be perfect in every
>way, but they don't give enough specifics to tell me how close they are to
>what I want.
>

For standalone memory diagnostics, check out Memtest86
(http://www.memtest86.com/) or Memtest86+ (http://www.memtest.org/).  I
think one or both of these are included on the Ultimate Boot CD.

For hard drive related diagnostics I usually boot a live Linux CD and use a
combination of smartctl (from the smartmontools package) and the badblocks
command.

Edward

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