what applications do you use to look for hardware errors?

[mcveigh]

just wondering what tools you all would reccomend?

memory checkers, hard disk scanners, etc

 

[Nothinman]

dmesg
cat /var/log/kern.log
memtest86
badblocks

 

[azncoffeeboi]

any links?


<----- Feeling a tad lazy =)

 

[mcveigh]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
dmesg
cat /var/log/kern.log
memtest86
badblocks

well actually I was thinking windows tools. I don't always feel like installing linux to do a system test

 

[Nothinman]

memtest86 is a bootable floppy.

And you don't need to install Linux, there are cd only distros and 'rescue' distros out there.

 

[mcveigh]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
memtest86 is a bootable floppy.

And you don't need to install Linux, there are cd only distros and 'rescue' distros out there.

true. I didn't think of that.