Sunday, February 12, 2017

Neat PC troubleshooting tools

      
I would use SFC /SCANNOW rather than chkdsk. As explained at https://www.sevenforums.com/performance-maintenance/325080-sfc-scannow-chkdsk-whats-diff.html the major difference: chkdsk checks disk for hardware issues. SFC is system file check and checks for missing or corrupt windows system files. Since the hard drive is brand new, I doubt that you would see a hard drive that is already bad. Besides if I'm remembering correctly your screenshot of speccy did not indicate that the SMART was tripped.

I would go to Window's System Reliability Monitor described in the CIO article here: http://www.cio.com/article/2998906/windows/how-to-work-with-windows-10-reliability-monitor.html

If you need any help interpreting BSOD (blue screen of death messages) I would suggest Nirsoft's Blue Screen Viewer, win crash report, and App Crash Report listed here:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/application_crash_report.html
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/what_is_hang.html

If memory is an issue, I recommend you look at http://www.howtogeek.com/260813/how-to-test-your-computers-ram-for-problems/


Other tools/resources
http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/wise_pc_1staid.html
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/notmyfault.aspx
http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/ultimate_boot_cd_(ubcd).html

Good luck and wishing you a speedy recovery

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