DOS Checkit - equivalent on Windows?

[The_Librarian]

Hi

Those of you who can remember a pre-Y2K program called CheckIt which ran on DOS, and which you can use to test your PC's serial/parallel ports, video cards and RAM for a certain amount of cycles to ensure all is kosher with the PC before shipping it off to a customer....

Is there such a program available for Windows?

I'm not looking for a benchmark/CPU stressing program, but rather something which can loop through a series of tests and check if USB/serial/video card/CPU/RAM is all OK and working properly?

Thanks.

 

[sajunky]

Windows Device Manager.
Seriously, it does a job from the controller software start up point of view, but do not test verious modes of operation.

- For testing s/p ports you have to attach real device, user interraction is needed.
- Regarding testing RAM, boot DOS and run MEMTEST for couple hours. Windows can cheat the program. I its important to start with memtest.
- For testing graphics card run stress program found on Hiren's Boot CD. There are various options to max CPU/RAM/GPU/FPU. I know you are trying to avoid it, but it gives you the most comprehensive look for suspicious overheating and unexpected power management throttling down. Errors in GPU usually are not reported, you must check for artifacts on the screen during stress tests or benchmarking.
- Test program for monitor is able to pickup RAMDAC defects if using analogue output.

You didn't mention it, but it is important to scan hard drive for delays. Very frequent new hard drives are sold with very bad reading. Scanning with MHDD will pickup poor quality drives. I ignored one, the drive failed after 6 months.

 

[The_Librarian]

You didn't mention it, but it is important to scan hard drive for delays. Very frequent new hard drives are sold with very bad reading. Scanning with MHDD will pickup poor quality drives. I ignored one, the drive failed after 6 months.

Thanks for the tip!