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- From: lio@ornl.gov (MILLION D L)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Need some good PC diagnostics
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.173104.23183@ornl.gov>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 17:31:04 GMT
- Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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- I'm having one of those maddeningly intermittent problems with my
- Zeos 486/33 wherein the machine hangs completely at what seems like
- random moments. Everything stops and nothing but the RESET button
- can recover. It's happened in Windows 3.0, in Windows 3.1, and in
- plain ol' DOS as well.
-
- I suspect some sort of hard-to-locate hardware problem. I would like
- to find some good diagnostic software for PC's that can really wring
- the system out and possibly locate a bad memory chip or whatever.
- Unfortunately, I am not real familiar with what's available in this line.
- I've had someone suggest CHECKIT. I've also read about something called
- AMI Diag in PC Magazine (which is $150!!).
-
- Can anyone out there recommend anything? Surely by now someone has
- written some decent diagnostics for PC clones. I'm willing to consider
- PD, shareware, or commercial. What I *don't* want is an "exerciser"
- or "burnin" program that just runs until something breaks, but doesn't
- really tell you what's wrong.
-
- Thanks.
-
- Dan Million Internet: milliondl@ornl.gov
-