# PC Diagnostic Software

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pc-diagnostic-software/113734>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 12, 2002, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pc-diagnostic-software/113734 "2002-06-12T22:04:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 12, 2002, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pc-diagnostic-software/113734/1 "2002-06-12T22:04:53Z")

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The company I work for does periodic maintenance on a lot of Intel-based PCs. We have a diagnostic program which fits on a floppy and does a basic test of the RAM, CPU, and motherboard resources. Unfortunately it’s out of date and won’t work on newer machines. Does anyone know of a good program for this kind of thing? It needs to be fast, portable, and its tests have to give understandable results. Oh, and ideally it should cost less than $500.