[plug] diagnostics disk wanted

[WolfBite]

mirror.3fl.wa.net

or something like that :)
knoppix and etc

but have you tryied running windows in safe mode for
awhile and see what happens?

WolfBite

--- Chris Caston <caston at arach.net.au> wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 12:09, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> > Hi, I have a dual boot machine that is starting to
> act flaky.  In
> > windoze it powers off randomly - changed the PS
> out with no change. 
> > Under linux it runs faultlessly, with setiathome
> and compiling software
> > at the same time, but for various reasons I am
> still not confident the
> > hardware is not to blame so want to test further.
> > 
> > I ve searched and there are a few hardware
> diagnostic disks out there
> > but I no idea which does a good job.  Is there
> something like a liveCD
> > chok full of hardware test diagnostics that
> someone can recommend?  I am
> > in the process of getting cpu-burn and memtest
> going, but would also
> > like disk tests, motherboard diagnostics and so
> on.
> > 
> > BillK
> 
> Windows is a lot more fussy about hardware problems
> than Linux. What may
> cause a BSOD under Windows if often ignored by
> Linux. I don't know what
> would cause it to poweroff randomly but XP by
> default with restart and
> write to the eventlog instead of performing a BSOD.
> 
> I had a machine here with a PSU that causes Windows
> machine to BSOD but
> runs fine under Linux. Of course I *should* still
> replace it.
> 
> regards,
> 
> Chris
> > 
> > 
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