| Stephen Gran on Sun, 13 Jul 2003 19:47:03 -0400 |
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On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 01:42:40PM -0400, W. Chris Shank said: > Just curious - but does anyone know of any free PC hardware and or > software auditing tools? Preferably that boots from CD or FDD - > without an intrusive install? Windows and/or Linux software audits > would be cool too - but really need for hardware. CPUBurn and memtest (probably memtest86 in this context). Both can be run either from floppy or from lilo entries. hdparm makes a great hard drive tester, and there is a program called (I think) bonnie or bonnie++ that does stress testing of hard drives. I'm not aware of anything to test motherboards or peripherals, although at least memtest and CPUBurn will kick out some errors if the motherboard access to the relevant parts are faulty - I had this experience with a bad RAM slot, although the RAM itself was fine. Hope that helps, -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | "Let every man teach his son, teach his | | steve@lobefin.net | daughter, that labor is honorable." -- | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | Robert G. Ingersoll | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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