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Old 04-21-2008, 01:21 PM   #1
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I need a live distro for quick test of HW


I am dealing quite a lot with used equipment and I was wondering if there is any good distro to test for example used laptops in short time lets say max. 20 minutes.

I am using now an USB dong with Ubuntu and Enemy Territory shooter game. I run memtest and when it passes I "test" cpu and graphic card with the game, however I would like to have something more.... descriptive... for testing that is lol

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Old 04-21-2008, 01:26 PM   #2
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well plenty of distros can run from usb, for a tiny one try slax
 
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well plenty of distros can run from usb, for a tiny one try slax
I am already using an USB distro of Ubuntu got a game for stress test there. What I need is some software that can warn me if some HW seems not to be working or can measure performance etc...
 
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Hi,

KNOPPIX, Slax 5.1.8, UBCD Ultimate Boot CD are just a few of the LiveCDs that I use for diagnosis.
The UBCD is good one to have around. memtest86 is on all of the ones I posted. If you are diagnosing machines then you are not running the memtest86 long enough. I usually do at least a dozen passes initially. Then perform other test on the system. Once that is done then I will let memtest86 run overnight.

These links and others can be found at 'Slackware-Links' .
 
  


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