[ILUG] Testing Hardware

[P at draigBrady.com]

Dave O Connor wrote:
> Anyone know of a good suite of tools for testing hardware? For linux is good,
> but a bootable stup (like memtest86, except for RAM, CPU, disks, etc) would be
> better. I've a machine here crashing pseudo-randomly, and am pretty sure it's
> hardware-related.

I noticed the Fedora Core 2 test 1 boot CD
has a memtest86 test option. Adding in
badblocks and http://packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/cpuburn.html
for e.g. wouldn't be a bad idea at all.

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