Diagnostic Utilities

[mturus]

Hi,

Can you recommend any free diagnostic utilitly please? That could be for
motherboard, graphic card, hard disk, etc.. and plus any other utility you
think could be helpful for troubleshooting and maintenance.

Thanks.

 

[SC Tom]

"mturus" <mturus@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Can you recommend any free diagnostic utilitly please? That could be for
> motherboard, graphic card, hard disk, etc.. and plus any other utility you
> think could be helpful for troubleshooting and maintenance.
>
> Thanks.

Since you're not asking for specific troubleshooting tips and software,
Google can be your friend:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...ic+utilities&aq=4&aqi=g7g-m2&oq=free+pc+diagn

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SC Tom

 

[Paul]

mturus wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can you recommend any free diagnostic utilitly please? That could be for
> motherboard, graphic card, hard disk, etc.. and plus any other utility you
> think could be helpful for troubleshooting and maintenance.
>
> Thanks.

memtest86+ from www.memtest.org

Prime95 (stress test option only) from http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft
Running the stress test, with no errors detected, tells you
the CPU and RAM are good.

Hard drive diagnostics can be downloaded from the manufacturer.
For example, seagate.com has SeaTools for DOS as a floppy based
test for your Seagate brand hard drive.

You can run 3DMark2001 as a check that the graphics card can
handle some DirectX 3D activity. http://majorgeeks.com/3Dmark_d99.html
I use that version, because compared to more modern versions, it
is a relatively small download.

HTH,
Paul