Failing hardware, what diagnostics tools are good?

[Morgan Storey]

UBCD also has CPU-burn in which is good for testing the motherboard and cpu,
generally this failing narrows it down a little.

But I guess they don't make em like they used to, my servers main IDE port
just died and I am trying to decide what to do next, it is very annoying.

On 7/12/07, David Whyte <david.whyte at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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