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Re: OT: PC hardware diagnostics
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Gordon Montgomery <[log in to unmask]>
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Gordon Montgomery <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:31:23 -0700
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I have been using something called "The Ultimate Boot CD" for years. It
has served me well. I haven't updated it since I downloaded it a couple of
years ago, but after a simple google search, it is still at

www.ultimatebootcd.com

Best of all, it's free!  The version I have has many, many tests on it, but it
is simple to use. I can only assume they've improved it over the years.

Good luck,

Gordon Montgomery
Living Scriptures, Inc.
(801) 627-2000
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Powell, MMfab" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 7:12 PM
Subject: [HP3000-L] OT: PC hardware diagnostics


> 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.
> 
> My ideal diagnostics would be much like the CD Dell ships with their Optiplex
> machines, but I want to buy other brands which sadly come with lame
> diagnostics, or none at all.  And the Dell CDs don't like to run on other
> brands.  Dell's CD offers nice choices full system tests or a menu of
> individual tests, choice of quick or long flavors of most tests, etc, etc.
> 
> PS:  the bit about bypassing Windows is a big deal for me.  Just recently
> Windows on a month-old Dell decided to boot into BSOD with a pretty useless
> error message, but the Dell bootable CD ran just fine and reported memory &
> cache errors and it was easy to get Dell to replace the parts.  Without that
> CD I might have gone on a Windows reinstall wild goose chase.  Either that or
> I'd still be on the phone with Dell support.
> 
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