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post #1 of 16
8/25/04 at 3:21pm
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Is there a site I can go to that will perform a diagnostic on my 6811. I think something is wrong with my hard drive or something. I am trying to run pro tools and it keeps stalling. In other instances, I keep getting an error with Windows explorer and the touch pad.

A few questions:
Is there a way to perform a self diagnostic?
How do I check the hard drive?
How do I check the motherboard? '
How How How?


Thanks for any help you can give me.
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post #2 of 16
8/25/04 at 3:49pm
Try PCPitstop.com
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post #3 of 16
8/25/04 at 8:37pm
I agree with Anaconda on pcpitstop. It is a good site for some simple different tools. To check the hard drive, you would probably want to use more thorough tool that will do a surface scan of the drive to inspect for bad sectors. You may also want to run memtest86 to check for memory stability.
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post #4 of 16
8/25/04 at 8:41pm
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Originally Posted by Thunder_PC
memtest86 to check for memory stability.

And how do I do that?
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post #5 of 16
8/25/04 at 8:46pm
http://www.memtest86.com/

The easiest method is to dl the bootable cd iso and just burn and reboot. Make sure you are set to boot from CD and it will start up for you with no user intervention.
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post #6 of 16
8/25/04 at 9:04pm
You may want to use memtest86+ as that it is more up to date.

http://www.memtest.org
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post #7 of 16
8/25/04 at 10:24pm
Or get the ultimate boot CD, it includes memtest & HD test & recovery stuff.
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post #8 of 16
8/25/04 at 10:26pm
The ultimate boot CD rocks
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post #9 of 16
8/26/04 at 12:25am
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Ultimate Boot CD

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Originally Posted by Thunder_PC
The ultimate boot CD rocks
Thank You for the link. I will give it all a try tonight.

And where may I get the Ultimate boot CD?
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post #10 of 16
8/26/04 at 12:34am
Clicky Clicky
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post #11 of 16
8/26/04 at 1:28am
Perhaps because this is a forum labeled "Peer to Peer", not "flame him for asking".
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post #12 of 16
8/26/04 at 1:51am
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Originally Posted by Thunder_PC
Perhaps because this is a forum labeled "Peer to Peer", not "flame him for asking".
You referring to that last line? If you are, it's in his sig, I've seen it in other places too
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post #13 of 16
8/26/04 at 4:46am
Oppsie
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post #14 of 16
8/26/04 at 10:43am
Sorry for the confusion, It's a line from the movie "House of 1000 Corpses."
I thought my avatar would set that straight. I guess not as many people saw that movie as I thought.
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post #15 of 16
8/26/04 at 2:14pm
No need for an apology. It is me that should be apologizing for my smart &^%, half-cocked comment.
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post #16 of 16
8/26/04 at 3:02pm
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Firewall

Damn firewall at work blocked the download site. I guess I will have to actually work and dl when I get home.
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