-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Trouble-shooting NO POST

Thanks Mike.

Yes... I definitely need to download that one and keep it in my library of
tools. But, in this particular situation, if there's no post, there's no
booting from the CD-ROM, and more importantly, there's no video signal to
see it.

---Troth


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Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 9:14 PM
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Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Trouble-shooting NO POST

Hi Troth,
I downloaded The ultimate Boot CD Image today it has a lot of diagnostics on
it.
www.ultimatebootcd.com


You need the Ultimate Boot CD if you want to:

Run floppy-based diagnostic tools from CDROM drives. More and more PCs are
shipped without floppy drives these days, and it is such a royal pain when
you need to run diagnostic tools on them. 

Free yourself from the slow loading speed of the floppy drive. Even if you
do have a floppy drive, it is still much much faster to run your diagnostic
tools from the CDROM drive, rather than wait for the tool to load from the
floppy drive. 

Consolidate as many diagnostic tools as possible into one bootable CD.
Wouldn't you like to avoid digging into the dusty box to look for the right
floppy disk, but simply run them all from a single CD? Then the Ultimate
Boot CD is for you! 

When you boot up from the CD, a text-based menu will be displayed, and you
will be able to select the tool you want to run. The selected tool actually
boots off a virtual floppy disk created in memory.

Tools currently included in the Ultimate Boot CD are:


Name of Tool Version 
Hard Disk Installation 
MaxBlast 3 (Maxtor)  3.6 
DiscWizard 2003 (Seagate)  10.45.06 
Disk Manager (Seagate)  9.56a 
Disk Manager (Samsung)  10 
Hard Disk Diagnosis 
Drive Fitness Test (IBM/Hitachi)  3.73 
PowerMax (Maxtor/Quantum)  4.09 
DLG Diagnostic (Western Digital)  4.15 
DLG Diagnostic (Western Digital)  5.04c 
Data Lifeguard (Western Digital)  11.0 
SeaTools Desktop (Seagate)  1.06.02 
SeaTools Desktop (Seagate)  3.00.06en 
Diagnostic Tool (Fujitsu)  6.20 
SHDIAG (Samsung)  1.25 
HUTIL (Samsung)  1.19 
Hard Disk Device Management 
Feature Tool (IBM/Hitachi)  1.94 
AMSET (Maxtor)  4.00 
MAXLLF (Maxtor)  1.1 
UATA100 (Seagate)  3.06 
Ultra ATA Manager (Western Digital)  June, 2003 
SMARTUDM  2.00 
ATA Password Tool  1.1 
Hard Disk Wiping 
AutoClave  0.3 
Active@ KillDisk Free Edition  3.0 
Darik's Boot and Nuke  1.0.3 
PC INSPECTOR e-maxx  0.95 Build 775 
Hard Disk Cloning 
HDClone (Free Edition)  2.0 
g4u  1.17 
PC INSPECTOR clone maxx  0.95 Build 769 
Partition Tools 
Ranish Partition Manager  2.44 
XFDISK (Extended FDISK)  0.9.3beta 
SPFDISK (Special FDISK)  2000-03q 
TestDisk  5.3 
Partition Resizer  1.3.4 
Partition Saving  2.90 
Free FDISK  1.2.1 
MBRtool  2.2.100 
MBRWork  1.07b 
FIPS  2.0 
GAG  4.3 
Active@ Partition Recovery  2.1.1 
Disk Editor  3.0 
Boot Managers 
Smart BootManager  3.7R1 
Gujin  0.8 
File Managers 
DOS Navigator  3.7.0 
File Maven  3.5a 
NTFS Tools 
Offline NT Password & Registry Editor 
Note: The SCSI drivers are available on the CD in scsi/. Selecting "[a]
autoprobe for the driver" on startup should do the trick.  040116 
Active NTFS Reader for DOS  1.0.1 
EditBINI  1.01.1 
CPU/Memory Diagnosis 
CPU Burn-in  1.00 
Memtest86  3.1a 
Memtest86+  1.20 
Windows Memory Diagnostic  n/a 
DocMem RAM Diagnostic  1.45a 
DocMem RAM Diagnostic  2.1b 
Intel Processor Frequency ID Utility  7.1.20040716 
Lucifer  1.0 
DOS Boot Disks 
Bart's Network Boot Disk  n/a 
Bart's CDROM Boot Disk  n/a 
FreeDOS Boot Disk  n/a 
Linux Boot Disks 
Tom's Boot Disk  2.0.103 
Recovery Is Possible (RIP)  3.0 
BasicLinux  2.1 
Trinux  0.89 
System Information 
AIDA16  2.14 
NSSI  0.58.1 
PC-Config  9.33 
ASTRA  4.21 
PCISniffer  1.2 
Benchmarks 
System Speed Test 32  4.78 
Antivirus Tools 
F-Prot Antivirus for DOS (Personal use only) 
Virus definition: 27 July 2004  3.15 
McAfee Antivirus Scanner 
Virus definition: 27 July 2004  4.32.0 
Network Tools 
Freesco  0.3.2 
Arachne WWW Browser  1.75 
QNX Demo Browser (network and modem version)  4.00 
Miscellaneous 
Disk Image Writer
Original work by Adrian Stanciu. Writes disk images on UBCD to physical
floppy disks.  0.3.2 
DOS Utilities 
Note: These utilities are located on the CD in the DOSAPPS subdirectory. Use
one of the DOS boot disks with CDROM access to run them directly from the
CD. 
3DBENCH - Tool for testing older VGA cards on their 3D features 
BIOS - BIOS password finder, BIOS information display etc. 
CDBENCH - CDROM drive benchmark tool 
CDCAP - ATA/SCSI drives features display tool 
CDIDENTI - CD media information tool 
CTCACHE - Displays some cache/DRAM configs of mainboard chipsets 
CTRAM - RAM check utility 
LFNTOOLS (V1.79) - Tools for working with long filenames 
DISKMAN4 (V4.0) - Performs a variety of low level hard disk related tasks 
BOOTPART (V2.5) - Add additional partitions to the Windows NT multi boot
menu 
PARALLEL (V1.45) - Parallel port detection and test utilities 
UNIFLASH (V1.37) - Utility, that can flash BIOS on many boards 
WIPECMOS (V1.2) - Clears all CMOS settings to recover from lost passwords 
CPUBENCH - CPU benchmark program 
PCI (V0.49B) - PCI system information and exploration tool 
CMOSPWD (V4.3) - CMOS password recovery tool 
 


Mike ~ It is a good day if I learned something new.
Editor MikesWhatsNews http://www.mwn.ca/ 


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On 10/28/2004 at 7:44 PM ~OoO~ wrote:

Anyone know of any tool that would allow me to quickly diagnose why a
computer would not post? This is nothing I'm in current need of, but today I
did a tech job and I had a system that was not posting. The computer was new
and was not posting. The system would go on and the LEDs were going on, but
video signal going to the LCD flat screen and no beeps from the computer. I
figured out it was the video card by doing some swap outs on an old
computer, but I was lucky that the customer had the old computer lying
around. If not, it would have taken me longer, especially since I didn't
have any spare hardware to swap out with.
 

Is there something I can plug the video cable leading to the monitor into to
test just the monitor? How about the video card? Here's cable testers, but
is there any way to straight out test a card (outside of trying it on a
functioning computer)?

 

Any suggestions?

 

---Troth

 

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