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<div>Absolutely stuffed with tools<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/9/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Paul Tansom</b> <<a href="mailto:paul@aptanet.com">paul@aptanet.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">To date in my IT career I've not had any need for much in the way of<br>hardware diagnostic tools. When working at IBM there were a few internal
<br>tools, then a smattering of AMIdiags, HD manufacturers own test tools<br>(all re-badged versions of the Ontrack tools!), Memtest, etc.. At the<br>moment, however, I have a machine that is irritating me majorly, so I've
<br>started looking around at what is available, what it does and at what<br>prices.<br><br>So AMIdiags is still around, but looking rather old. I've also started<br>looking at things like PC Certify, one from Trinitech and there's
<br>Microscope for Micro2000, and Sandra from SiSoft, etc. etc. I've not<br>found huge amounts of Linux/open source stuff though - Memtest, CPUburn<br>and a couple of others.<br><br>So, does anyone have any recommendations in this area. The sales pitch
<br>on the Microscope package goes well, but many of the commercial packages<br>are pretty expensive, so it would be nice if I could find someone with<br>experience of one or more. Ideally there would be an open source package
<br>or selection that I could run from a Linux boot CD (hmm, must take a<br>closer look at the Linux BBC!).<br><br>Basically it has to boot off a CD (or diskette possibly, but they seem<br>pretty small these days!) so it can bypass the OS and test all the
<br>hardware (CPU, memory, HD, graphics, etc., etc.).<br><br>OK, running out of steam tonight. Hopefully that makes sense!<br><br>--<br>Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | <a href="http://www.aptanet.com">http://www.aptanet.com</a>
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