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

[William Hamilton]

Thanks for the feedback everyone..  will do some looking at the Ultimate
BootCD

cheers

W

2009/9/24 Carl Turney <c.turney at orcon.net.nz>

> 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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