[Converted: multipart/alternative, HTML stripped] ----- Forwarded Message Begin ----- Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 09:06:18 -0500 From: Scott McNay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: tracey wild <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [pctoolbin] Re: PC Diagnostic Tools Hello, Tracey! Those two are also intended for consumer use, not for trained technicians. A technician will often find the error messages to be unhelpful, although I've found that virtually ALL diagnostics programs have their good points in some situations. Keeping comsumer diagnostics programs handy is often useful for a "second opinion". Check out http://www.datadepo.com/clinic.htm for a technician-quality diagnostics package. A lot of the diagnostics available now (such as Norton Utilities and Nuts & Bolts) work through Windows; the problem with that is that Windows hides a lot of information, and in general just plain gets in the way. As a blatant example, I often have to reboot to plain DOS mode in order to find out the REAL error message that I'm getting while trying to read a floppy, since the Windows error message is virtually useless. --Scott.. -----Original Message----- From: tracey wild [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, September 05, 1999 8:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [pctoolbin] PC Diagnostic Tools Help please guys I've recently started my own business as a PC Tech. I'm based in Jeffreys Bay, South Africa. I require a good diagnostic program to help speed up troubleshooting. I'm reasonably experienced in troubleshooting software problems as this is where I've had most of my experience. I've recently passed my A+ but am still finding hardware a bit of a challenge. Can you please advise a package to buy. I've looked at Norton Utilities and Nuts and Bolts but they don't really offer much hardware help and their software advice can be a bit dangerous if you're not careful. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ eGroups.com home: http://www.egroups.com/group/pctoolbin http://www.egroups.com - Simplifying group communications ----- Forwarded Message End ----- To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies.
