[lug] FOSS Hardware Diagnostics

[Hugh Brown]

On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Lee Woodworth wrote:

> I am looking for recommendations on stand-alone (no os),
> foss harwdare diagnostic software. I am in the process of
> looking at memtest86 and the ultimatebootcd tools now.
>
> Any thoughts for testing AMD64 + SATA systems?
>

There's nothing terribly special about AMD64 that should cause problems
for most of the test software out there (e.g. knoppix should work fine).
The SATA on the other hand is still pretty hit and miss (mostly miss it
seems lately).

Hugh