Thinkpad internals - good diagnostic software?

[doppelfish]

OK, so this came up in the 'User Buy/Sale' forum. We better continue this over here:

Any Windows utility that can give you detail info on the hardware components inside your laptop?

We're already past the idea of popping in some Linux/FreeBSD install/LiveSystem/bootonly CD and watching the dmesg fly by.
Come on, you Windows users out there: How do you find out what HW you have in your machine, exactly? Are 'System Settings' good enough?

cheers,
-- fish

[jdhurst]

Device manager does as good a job as I need. Generic things like who makes the keyboard, FDD and mouse, I just don't care about. Most other devices are identified. ... JD Hurst

[GomJabbar]

If you have Rescue and Recovery installed (at least with version 3), boot up into Rescue and Recovery. There is a system information page that has more information than I have seen anywhere.

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=16131

[DavidNZ]

I use aida32. Quite thorough.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download181.html

[smugiri]

If you are brave enough to go through an XML file, install the IBM System Gatherer ActiveX control found herehere or if you dont like the blind link, go here and click on "Automatically detect my system". It only works with Internet Explorer though.

It will dump an XML file on C:\ called IbmEgath.XML with very very very detailed system audi on your system (down to serial numbers , info on RAM, bios revisions on video RAM, device IDs on all system devices, all installed software and versions, etc)

[Des]

I find that Belarc Adviser does a great job.

Des