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From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Jason White via Blind-sysadmins
Sent: May-28-18 1:35 PM
To: Blind sysadmins list
Cc: Jason White
Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Accessible and effective hardware diagnostic tools? (Linux/Windows)
I have a relatively new laptop that is causing trouble. Symptoms include Windows kernel crashes with various bug check codes reported in the logs, seemingly random program crashes, and Microsoft Outlook data file corruption (even after deleting the .ost files and re-creating them).
This machine has been returned to the manufacturer under warranty, but they failed to find any hardware problem, choosing to re-install Windows as a remedy, which didn’t last.
(i.e., data corruption and program crashes recurred). A local hardware repair vendor also failed to find any issue. To be fair, the BIOS-level tests didn’t reveal any hardware problems when my colleagues at work ran them.
However, Microsoft Memory Diagnostics repeatedly report bad pages. After running the Memory Diagnostic again last week, the system appears to have crashed, then rebooted, reporting drive errors that it “fixed” by returning to a restore point when the repair operation failed. I ran Memory Diagnostics again, this time returning the report below in the Windows logs.
I plan to install Linux on this machine, possibly in a dual-boot configuration, but I want to identify and detect any hardware issue first. Are there additional tools, preferably screen reader accessible, that I could run either under Linux (e.g., a GRML or Arch installation image written to a USB device) or Microsoft Windows that would help to identify the underlying problem – whether it’s a RAM module, the system board, the SSD, etc.? Any other advice would be appreciated, as I’m not receiving quality diagnosis from the vendor or a third party company that I’ve tried.
Here’s the Memory Diagnostics report:
+ System
- Provider
[ Name] Microsoft-Windows-MemoryDiagnostics-Results
[ Guid] {5F92BC59-248F-4111-86A9-E393E12C6139}
EventID 1102
Version 0
Level 2
Task 0
Opcode 0
Keywords 0x8000000000000000
- TimeCreated
[ SystemTime] 2018-05-26T03:58:10.809049100Z
EventRecordID 2272
Correlation
- Execution
[ ProcessID] 7656
[ ThreadID] 1100
Channel System
Computer jpw.jasonjgw.net
- Security
[ UserID] S-1-5-18
- UserData
- Results
LaunchType Manual
CompletionType Fail
MemorySize 32574
TestType 10
TestDuration 3577
TestCount 12
NumPagesTested 8289129
NumPagesUnTested 1535
NumBadPages 2
T1NumBadPages 0
T2NumBadPages 0
T3NumBadPages 0
T4NumBadPages 0
T5NumBadPages 0
T6NumBadPages 0
T7NumBadPages 0
T8NumBadPages 0
T9NumBadPages 2
T10NumBadPages 0
T11NumBadPages 0
T12NumBadPages 0
T13NumBadPages 0
T14NumBadPages 0
T15NumBadPages 0
T16NumBadPages 0
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