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Any quick way to diagnose hardware failure?

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  • 28-11-2011 10:17pm
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    Dcully
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 14,711 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Hi folks, my sons PC is giving an error about possible hardware failure when i try to boot it up.
    My guess is hard drive failure but i cant be sure, any way or means of finding out for sure so i can replace the dodgy component?
    Id rather find out myself instead of paying someone to diagnose for me.

    I vaguely recall readin somewhere about a cd that pops into the disc drive and can pinpoint the issue?


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    Serephucus
    Registered Users Posts: 7,180 ✭✭✭Serephucus


    You can try Hiren's Boot CD. It's a boot CD full of diagnostic tools. I won't lie to you; I don't know what half of them do. You can however run RAM stability tests, as well as a hard drive checker (I think) and a CPU stress test, to rule out the main ones.


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    uberpixie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,864 ✭✭✭uberpixie


    Dcully wrote: »
    Hi folks, my sons PC is giving an error about possible hardware failure when i try to boot it up.
    My guess is hard drive failure but i cant be sure, any way or means of finding out for sure so i can replace the dodgy component?
    Id rather find out myself instead of paying someone to diagnose for me.

    I vaguely recall readin somewhere about a cd that pops into the disc drive and can pinpoint the issue?
    Ultimate boot cd should do the trick.

    Google ubcd.

    Ubcd has the kitchen sink approach so there should be the required testing tool for the make of harddrive you need to test.


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    Dcully
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 14,711 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dcully


    Thanks folks.


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    SeantheMan
    Registered Users Posts: 6,911 ✭✭✭SeantheMan


    Hirens is good, can be a bit finnicky though


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    MarkR
    Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 11,117 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    Dcully wrote: »
    Hi folks, my sons PC is giving an error about possible hardware failure when i try to boot it up.
    My guess is hard drive failure but i cant be sure, any way or means of finding out for sure so i can replace the dodgy component?
    Id rather find out myself instead of paying someone to diagnose for me.

    I vaguely recall readin somewhere about a cd that pops into the disc drive and can pinpoint the issue?

    Some computers come with a utility partition that you can boot to, to test hardware. What make do you have?


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