On 10 Feb 98 at 22:31, Jim Chapman wrote: > I have a 200mhz MMX Pentium from Gateway. I am running Windows 95 and IE4. > I need modern hardware diagnostics. I heared that there were some > undocumented diagnostics in Win95, but I was not able to find them. I was > not able to find them at microsoft online support search. Perhaps their > search engine is no good. I would prefer freebies, but would settle for > economy class. I've had past good experiences with CheckIt/WinCheckIt, and if I can confirm that their new version will work with my (home) Cyrix 6x86 CPUs, I'll buy it again. [You shouldn't have any such trouble.] I think it's aroud $50-60; it's aimed more at consumers than at technicians. Most strictly DOS-based diagnostics are simply overwhelmed by more than 16MB of memory, more than two digits of CPU speed, 3D graphics acceleration adaptors and dual CPUs. Many Windows-based "system information" programs just report what the OS tells them. I've found *one* package that SEEMS[*] to have the oomph to be useful on our (work) dual-PII 256MB NT servers, and that's ForeFront's "The TroubleShooter" -- and it's $300. [*] We have not yet had a failure where it played a critical diagnostic role, so I've only run it on systems that seemed to run everything else just fine. It *does* clearly do more than the several <$100 utilities we tried. David G PCSOFT: http://nospin.com or [log in to unmask]