[Cialug] Dying commputer question

[murraymckee at wellsfargo.com]

 * When the motherboard and power supply were replaced, did they re-use
the old CPU and RAM?  Have you run a RAM test?  memtest86 is a boot
option on most live Linux distro disks these days.

I have a new CPU and I believe the ram is new to, but I don't remember
off the top of my head.  I'll try the memtest86 when I get home tonight.

* I'm assuming they re-used the same hard disk.  Have you run
something like SpinRite on that system?  It isn't free, but it is
worth the $89 to have a copy on hand if you work with questionable
hard drives from time to time.

The hard drive is the same original hard drive.  I have not run any test
on it.  I don't know if they did when they rebuilt the computer or not.
I'll see if I can pick up a copy of spinrite on the way home.

Thanks for the advice.

Murray McKee 
Operating Systems Engineer
WFFIS - Wells Fargo Financial Information Systems 
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