Is there a version of PC Doctor that can run on CD?

[koolzero]

I don't have a floppy drive for these T43p's... I want to run some tests on a machine that is acting kind of odd.

[bill bolton]

I don't have the detail handy, but I bet someone else here will.... anyway there is certainly a way of making a DOS boot CD which does work with a T4x (I've used it to set the "1802" bit in the CMOS). With a bit of work on a desktop PC with a floppy drive, you should be able to get the files for the DOS version of PC Doctor onto a bootable CD.

If no one else responds in the meantime, I will see what I can do about digging out the details in a day or so.

Cheers,

Bill

[morgie]

One method may be to create a boot floppy from BootDisk.com. If you have Nero you can then select to create a boot CD and burn this as the boot sector from the floppy. Hopefully you could drop the other utilities etc that you need straight onto the route of the CD.

Otherwise you should be able to boot from a USB stick if you put the content of the floppy on there?

[koolzero]

My co-worker just found the iso here: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-56222

[DIGITALgimpus]

Awesome... IMHO that's FAQ worthy. Good basic diagnostics.

[koolzero]

I have a machine that has been acting a little goofy that I ran PC Doctor on. I ran the quick test and it ran through it alright, I ran the long test and it never finished. It got to the screen that displayed the following:

Memory Test - Full Test Category (12/13)
B1 Complex Pattern Test
[01006400H]-[3FEDFFFFH]
Current Test: 47%
Overall Tsts: 98%

Pass 1 of 1 - Test 62 of 62

I left it running last night and checked it about 10 hours later and this is where was at. A user sent this in saying that it has blue screened 10 times in the past few days. It also wouldn't turn on. When I recieved it it wouldn't turn like she said, I pulled out the battery and held the power button down for a minute and it would power on but the screen wouldn't come on, so I swapped out her hard drive and put it into another T43p shell.

After I pulld out the hard drive it would turn on and the screen came on, so I put my hard drive in and it wouldn't turn on again so I repeated this once more and this time it worked...

Can anyone give me any suggestions on what I may try next? Or if you think this machine is okay?

[DIGITALgimpus]

Your best bet would be running this for several hours:
http://www.memtest86.com/