[Cialug] PC diagnostics

[Tom Sellers]

--- On Wed, 2/25/09, Daniel A. Ramaley <daniel.ramaley at drake.edu> wrote:

> From: Daniel A. Ramaley <daniel.ramaley at drake.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] PC diagnostics
> To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
> Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2009, 9:06 AM
> I don't know of discs that have it already, but
> there's a program 
> called "stress" that is perfect for doing burn-in
> tests.
> 
> How about this? I've not tried it, but found it with
> Google. Looks like 
> a minimal Linux live CD to do exactly what you want:
> http://www.stresslinux.org/

Downloaded this and tried to run it but it just spews a lot of numbers and letters across about the top 2/3 of my screen and otherwise is unresponsive.  A very brief menu on the front end but if you don't catch it soon enough it starts up and does the random characters thing on the screen anyway.

> 
> On Wednesday February 25 2009, Tom Sellers wrote:
> >Any suggestions on a PC diagnostic to run from either
> floppy or CD? 
> > Need to find a burn in test for new machine or failed
> machine.
> 
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