hardware diagnostic Live CD

noir911 · 01-24-2007, 12:23 AM

I am after a Live CD which would be able to detect faulty hardware parts on i386 machines. I know of memtest on Knoppix but that only tests RAM and nothing else. I need a CD which would test NICs, HDD, RAM, CPU, Fan etc. I know I can enable hardware monitoring on Linux and Unix but most of the computers I'm trying to test are running XP.

Thanks.

Matir · 01-24-2007, 12:30 AM

Well, HDDs can be tested with smartmontools. RAM and CPU are both effectively checked by memtest. And I suppose a NIC could be checked with ping.

What specific types of test would you like performed?

noir911 · 01-24-2007, 12:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Matir

What specific types of test would you like performed?

I like to test faulty hardware parts - HDD, NIC, CPU, RAM. The CD will be run by end users and not *nix geeks. So the user would pop-in the CD, click-click-point-point and the CD would do all the test for them and tell them what's faulty.

Thanks.

Nishtya · 01-24-2007, 08:29 AM

Ultimate boot CD has diagnostic and benchmark tools. There also appears to be an option of customizing its knoppix-based version though I don't have much experience with it myself. Check out http://www.ultimatebootcd.com