Guest pgarcia Posted August 8, 2007 Posted August 8, 2007 So, back in the day (round ‘92), I had a self booting utility that would run a diagnostic test on my computer. It would test everything from the mother to the ram and hard drive. Does anyone know of any good software that does that now. I have been out of the repair loop for a bit. Thanks
Guest Mike Lowery Posted August 8, 2007 Posted August 8, 2007 Re: Back in the day... "pgarcia" <pgarcia@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:DDDBEE6F-1BC0-4532-9698-023A02479531@microsoft.com... > So, back in the day (round '92), I had a self booting utility that would run > a diagnostic test on my computer. It would test everything from the mother to > the ram and hard drive. Does anyone know of any good software that does that > now. I have been out of the repair loop for a bit. Thanks That's usually provided by the OEM of the computer.
Guest pgarcia Posted August 8, 2007 Posted August 8, 2007 Re: Back in the day... I seem to remmeber that it was something I just pick up some where, but it work on any computer. It was a basic boot dos disk with this utilty on it. I just don't remmeber the name of it. "Mike Lowery" wrote: > > "pgarcia" <pgarcia@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:DDDBEE6F-1BC0-4532-9698-023A02479531@microsoft.com... > > So, back in the day (round '92), I had a self booting utility that would run > > a diagnostic test on my computer. It would test everything from the mother to > > the ram and hard drive. Does anyone know of any good software that does that > > now. I have been out of the repair loop for a bit. Thanks > > That's usually provided by the OEM of the computer. > > >
Guest Malke Posted August 8, 2007 Posted August 8, 2007 Re: Back in the day... pgarcia wrote: > I seem to remmeber that it was something I just pick up some where, but it > work on any computer. It was a basic boot dos disk with this utilty on it. I > just don't remmeber the name of it. > Ultimate CD is one. Most of us techs use some variant of that, Linux-based live CDs (I like Knoppix), Bart's PE, etc. Malke -- Elephant Boy Computers http://www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
Guest sgopus Posted August 8, 2007 Posted August 8, 2007 Re: Back in the day... I have checkit, not free though "Malke" wrote: > pgarcia wrote: > > I seem to remmeber that it was something I just pick up some where, but it > > work on any computer. It was a basic boot dos disk with this utilty on it. I > > just don't remmeber the name of it. > > > > Ultimate CD is one. Most of us techs use some variant of that, > Linux-based live CDs (I like Knoppix), Bart's PE, etc. > > > Malke > -- > Elephant Boy Computers > http://www.elephantboycomputers.com > "Don't Panic!" > MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User >
Guest Plato Posted August 9, 2007 Posted August 9, 2007 Re: Back in the day... Mark F. wrote: > > > a diagnostic test on my computer. It would test everything from the mother > > to > > the ram and hard drive. Does anyone know of any good software that does > > that > > now. I have been out of the repair loop for a bit. Thanks > > Back in 1992?? Oh my god that was like forever man! > <g> > > ... and yes, CheckIT works fairly well. It's not free, around $69 us. There > are others too. Just Google "PC Diagnostic Software". > > http://www.smithmicro.com/default.tpl?group=product_full&sku=CKDWINEE Grin, Yes, I'm a past user of checkit, never helped back then tho either :) -- http://www.bootdisk.com/
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