What's the best PC diagnostic Software/Hardware?

[bardan]

I've been fixing alot of computers lately and have been using both the internet to troubleshoot, and a sytematic aproach where I replace, one by one, the Ram/GPU/PSU etc then see how it goes.

As you could imagine this can take a long time. Does anyone have any suggestions on any Tried and Tested software / hardware to diagnose problems faster and easier?

I've seen motherboard PCI card testers, but I'm a bit scepticle

Cheers!

[bardan]

Anybody?

[vaio]

Memtest/3d mark or ATI:nvidia 3d benching tool/Prime/OCCT.
Checking the psu rails would be useful too.

Then once your sorted, get them crunching :D

[Pudi]

first google find http://www.pc-diagnostics.com/data_recovery_software/pc_diagnostics_master_it_kit.shtml

Real professional test hardware is just to damn expensive

[Call me Ugly]

Memtest/3d mark or ATI:nvidia 3d benching tool/Prime/OCCT.
Checking the psu rails would be useful too.

Then once your sorted, get them crunching :D

Which would be about the only cheap hardware on the list. A good tech always has a decent PSU tester.

Ugly™

[hstuehmeyer2000]

I've been fixing alot of computers lately and have been using both the internet to troubleshoot, and a sytematic aproach where I replace, one by one, the Ram/GPU/PSU etc then see how it goes.

As you could imagine this can take a long time. Does anyone have any suggestions on any Tried and Tested software / hardware to diagnose problems faster and easier?

I've seen motherboard PCI card testers, but I'm a bit scepticle

Cheers!
you should go to a book store and buy a book about general hardware repair like
a book for the comptia a+ exam