[plug] diagnostics disk wanted

[Russ Powers]

On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 12:09 +0800, 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.

The ultimate boot cd may be what you're after:

Ultimate Boot CD - http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

and a couple of others:

Knoppix STD - ftp://mirror.wa.3fl.net/pub/knoppix-std/
SystemRescueCd homepage - http://www.sysresccd.org/


> BillK
> 
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Russ Powers <russ at powerstech.com>