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Re: OT: PC hardware diagnostics
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Joshua Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
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Joshua Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:07:21 -0500
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Dave,

Adding to what Craig posted. There is a great web site and project called
Ultimate Boot CD 4 Windows (UBCD4Win) which uses Bart PE and has done all
the work for you. All you have to do is download it and run the setup which
will integrate your own copy of XP into a bootable ISO image and slipstream
service packs if you desire. It comes with a complete array of tools and you
can add or remove whatever you want.

Web Site
http://www.ubcd4win.com/

Enjoy,
Josh

-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of Dave Powell, MMfab
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 9:13 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
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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