Any Good Hardware Auditing Software

[DarkKnightH20]

Hey Guys,

I wanted to hear your suggestions on this--What do you recommend in the way of hardware auditing software? Basically, what do you recommend for testing whether or not a computer has a faulty piece of hardware? Most of these tools do seperate pieces of hardware, so lists are fine. It'd be for testing CPU, Graphics Card, RAM, and so forth -- on a Windows (32-bit XP) machine (which may or may not matter depending on whether it's a bootable test or a test that is initiated after OS load). Thanks.

[MentaL]

[omen]

well if your graphics card is broken then you see nothing on screen and get beeps, if your ram is broken you get beeps and nothing on screen, if your cpu is broken then either nothing works or some fans spin and nothing comes up on screen.
then the motherboard well.. some fans spin and nothing comes up on screen.

thats kinda the way it works or doesnt work.
i dont think there is any software that efficiently figures out if anything is broken mainly because if hardware is broken software usually dont work at all :)

[Mazo]

Memtest86 - RAM
Prime95 - CPU
ATITool - GPU (Works on both Nvidia and ATI cards, don't be fooled by the name.)

[DarkKnightH20]

Thanks Mazo. I've used Prime95 before and found it to be an interesting test since it compared calculation results to determine if the CPU is fine. Plus the name is cool...Prime95...chya.


Omen, it is true that nothing will be 100% efficient other than seeing signs of broken hardware. What I'd like to audit is potentially failing hardware. Basically, hardware that could be slightly faulty or dying at a slow pace, thus I don't get to hear the beeps of death :)