Hardward testing equipment

[[BB] Rick James]

So I've got a friend's PC sitting here at my house and the PC just acts weird at times. I unfortunatly sold all my old PC parts so I have nothing laying around to swap things out with. This is kind of an older PC, and every now and then it gets random reboot. When it restarts it tells us that there was a hardware issue with the usual MS crap after that.

Are there testing tools out there that would tell what item in his PC is bad? That would narrow the search down I guess is what I'm asking.

 

[zoobaby]

You could run memtest on it to check the ram. You can also download the hard drive debug tools from the HDD manufacturer. Also do a visual inspection of the motherboard. Look for swollen capacitors, if you find any that is your problem. Not sure what to use to check the cpu, vid card, or other mobo issues.

 

[[BB] Rick James]

You could run memtest on it to check the ram. You can also download the hard drive debug tools from the HDD manufacturer. Also do a visual inspection of the motherboard. Look for swollen capacitors, if you find any that is your problem. Not sure what to use to check the cpu, vid card, or other mobo issues.

Well I've ran memtest and I've ran a few CPU test, but they always pass. So it's either a power issue, motherboard, sound card or video card.