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Thread ID: 134574	2013-07-16 00:35:00	Best diagnosis for Win7?	Greg (193)	Press F1

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1348957	2013-07-16 00:35:00	I think one of our gurus told us how to test for hard drive and/or cpu tests... What are the Commands? Wainuitech?	Greg (193)
1348958	2013-07-16 00:39:00	I think one of our gurus told us how to test for hard drive and/or cpu tests... What are the Commands? Wainuitech? My other friend's lappie has failed again... she thinks it's hard-drive failure... I think she dropped it from a dizzy height! Else maybe the cpu was fried from using it on her, literally lap.	Greg (193)
1348959	2013-07-16 00:57:00	Not sure what brand laptop that is but most have inbuilt diagnostics that you can run to test all the components. Most in BIOS or on startup screens you should see the option.	ronyville (10611)
1348960	2013-07-16 02:31:00	Most lappies actually dont have inbuilt manufacturers diag's A very good test is actually install Windows . If that goes through without any issues its a good sign. HD check from the command prompt (open a dos box, must be run as administrator) chkdsk /r C: It will need to restart to test,can take some hours CPU test: I havnt tried these in Win7 myself , CPU's rarely fail, but CPU fans & heatsink compound/contacts can, keep an eye on temps especially on a lappy en.wikipedia.org or any other CPU stress tests RAM test : mem86+ : burn a test CD & boot off it http://www.memtest.org/	1101 (13337)
1348961	2013-07-16 05:00:00	If it boots at all or even starts to the CPU is probably ok. A bootable CD is the quickest way to see if the hardware is mostly OK, even just booting from a windows disk and not going any further confirms if there's any life left in the machine.	dugimodo (138)
1348962	2013-07-17 06:38:00	She hasn't brought it round here yet so I haven't done the tests. But meanwhile its a 3 y/o Toshiba, and I assume till then that it's 64Bit Win7. Thx meantime for the replies.	Greg (193)
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