[olug] hardware diagnostics with Linux

[Charles Bird]

I usually remove all PCI/agp cards and put in one of my 
refernce pci video cards as my first step. Many times I've 
gotten a computer that has a bad video card works for 5 
minutes then messes everything up. Its just proving or 
disproving that something works. 
  As far as diagnostics I'm not sure if knoppix has that 
or not, it does have really nice auto detection though. 
  I'm not a tech either but I fix up old boxes beat the 
windows outta them and make them my personal binary 
slaves. 
   
   
 
 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Tim & Alethea Larson <thelarsons3 at cox.net> 
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 13:17:02 -0500 
To: OLUG at olug.org 
Subject: [olug] hardware diagnostics with Linux 
 
> My brother-in-law's PC is having problems that manifest 
awhile after  
> boot.  Could be hardware, or it could be Windows.  
*shrug*  Being the  
> family computer guy, I said I would try to take a look.  
Not being a PC  
> tech "in real life", my experience troubleshooting that 
kind of thing is  
> a little limited.  Any suggestions I could try to test 
the hardware  
> (RAM, HD) before blindly reinstalling Windows (and 
crossing my fingers)?  
>  I've got a Knoppix CD, if it has the tools I'd need.  
Or a  
> Windows-based solution would be OK too. 
>  
> Thanks, 
> Tim 
>  
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