[wellylug] What burn in/PC diagnoistic tools are out there now?

Carl Turney c.turney at orcon.net.nz
Thu Sep 24 13:10:24 NZST 2009


Hi All,

If money is no object, you can buy a diagnostic CD, USB, and floppy, even
a boot-up probe card, from www.micro2000.com   They have an Australian
distributor, but no local representation in NZ.

I checked out The Ultimate Boot CD, and have loved it.  There are many
limited, poorly-documented, and counter-intuitive programs in there, but a
few great gems as well.  I'd suggest experimenting on a surplus system
with an unimportant hard drive first.

Some of the better-qualified guys here in the LUG could probably offer
advice on porting some of the better utils from TUBCD to bootable floppy
and bootable USB.

I never found a burn-in program on TUBCD that would do a series of
different things (e.g. REPEAT motherboard, then cpu, then ram, then hard
disk, UNTIL interrupted).  Please let me know if you find such a one.

Cheers,

Carl Turney
Greymouth

> Hi there, MANY years ago when I work in a PC build company we used to burn
> in PC for a couple of days using a bit of software which would run through
> a
> number of test etc.  Is there anything similar these days?  I have a mate
> who built a new machine and it hung over a weekend of no use and want to
> help try diagnose what the problem is.
> W




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