Apple Hardware Test Equivalent for PCs?

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Kris

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My main desktop just went on the fritz (I got a nice BSOD stating an issue with the MACHINE_CHECK and from what I read, it could be my memory, CPU, or Motherboard). Is there any discs I can attempt to boot from that can check different hardware components in my PC or are PCs too diverse for something like this?

I'm running:
Athlon XP 2100+
Shuttle AK31a Motherboard
256MB DDR PC2100
Geforce 4 Ti4600

Thanks
 
Just wanted to let everyone know I've read a lot about this error and found it can be caused by malfunctioning fans and overheating so I took the computer apart and blew some dust out of it and adjusted a bunch of connections and now it starts up! Yay!

Though I am almost 100% sure some of my parts are bad (my north bridge died a few years ago) so I am still looking to see if there are any diagnostic software for checking out hardware (other than memtest)
 
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