[olug] hardware diagnostics with Linux

[Jay Swackhamer]

The first steps would be to check for
1. Heat - CPU  & possibly Video or memory
2. boot of of a cd and run memtest86 incl on gentoo or
   http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
3. boot from a linux distro knoppix/gentoo live and
   cat /proc/pci or lspci -v and look for shared IRQ's
4. also mount the disk partitions and read/write to them and look for
   timeouts on hda...i.e. dmesg

If it was working correctly for a period of time, I'd say that it is
most likely cpu heat or memory issues..............



>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tim & Alethea Larson <thelarsons3 at cox.net>
> Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 13:17:02 -0500
> To: OLUG at olug.org
> Subject: [olug] hardware diagnostics with Linux
>
>> My brother-in-law's PC is having problems that manifest
> awhile after
>> boot.  Could be hardware, or it could be Windows.
> *shrug*  Being the
>> family computer guy, I said I would try to take a look.
> Not being a PC
>> tech "in real life", my experience troubleshooting that
> kind of thing is
>> a little limited.  Any suggestions I could try to test
> the hardware
>> (RAM, HD) before blindly reinstalling Windows (and
> crossing my fingers)?
>>  I've got a Knoppix CD, if it has the tools I'd need.
> Or a
>> Windows-based solution would be OK too.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tim
>>
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