Failing hardware, what diagnostics tools are good?

David Whyte david.whyte at gmail.com
Wed Jul 11 23:09:27 BST 2007


Just to follow up.  Turns out a new mobo fixed the problem.  Will try
to return the old one to Asus for repair.

Thanks for the help,
Whytey

On 7/10/07, David Whyte <david.whyte at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/10/07, Liam Higgins <liamhiggo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello Whytey,
> >
> > I would try UBCD:
> > http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
> >
> > It has a wide range of tools to diagnose your hardware, including memtest.
>
>
> Thanks for the advice Liam.
>
> I gave UBCD a go and whilst it does a great job at working out what my
> system comprised of, I couldn't really find an included tool that
> probes either the CPU or the motherboard in a testing type manner.
>
> I hope your not right with your comment about memory, but it could
> well be that I had a dodgy moment and both modules in the PC got fried
> (and the one in my wardrobe got to zapped by my nylon underwear or
> something).
>
> Anyways, fingers crossed.
>
> Whytey
>



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