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lbrtchx

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Since: Jun 11, 2007
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(Msg. 1) Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 4:26 am
Post subject: Is there such a thing as a testing Live CD?
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that you would just use to boot a pc and diagnose the pc health,
including its power supply, peripherals, ...
~
or how could you use an existing live CD to do that?
~
There is smartmontools to check hard drives hardware anything like
that to check other parts of a PC?
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Kwyjibo

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:44 am
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<lbrtchx.RemoveThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1182943561.081431.295800@u2g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
> that you would just use to boot a pc and diagnose the pc health,
> including its power supply, peripherals, ...
> ~
> or how could you use an existing live CD to do that?
> ~
> There is smartmontools to check hard drives hardware anything like
> that to check other parts of a PC?


Try BartPE and add whatever plugins you want. You could do the same with
Knoppix or any other live Linux distro.

PS: Why did you strip the followups?

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Kwyj.

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