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Is there some kind of software application or hardware devices that can inform the owner of the machine that some kind of failure is going to happen soon?
What I mean by some kind of failure are - hard disk failure, ram failure, monitor failure, etc...
Larry Morries
Posted 2011-09-26T04:26:35.047
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After reading the answer from Journeyman Geek and Bryan, I can conclude that there is currently no software suite (at this point of time) that can perform early detection of a machine (be it a laptop, server, desktop) failures.
Larry Morries
Posted 2011-09-26T04:26:35.047
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Quite often failure is at a lower level than tools can detect. There's specific troubleshooting tools for specific issues though
Hard Drives: I tend to use gsmartcontrol to check drive health. Works on most common OSes
Ram: i tend to favour memtestx86+ run off a liveusb. I usually run this sparingly though, or when suspecting ram issues
BSODs: Quite often BSODs can be an indication of other issues - i use whocrashed to interpret these
there's no standard test for other things as far as i know
Journeyman Geek
Posted 2011-09-26T04:26:35.047
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Spinrite can tell you about the state of your hard drive.
bryan
Posted 2011-09-26T04:26:35.047
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Can it also detect other machine failures? – Larry Morries – 2011-09-26T05:37:44.707
no, it's a hard drive tool. – bryan – 2011-09-26T17:36:04.657
Yes, those program require to be run manually and each of them can only detect a specify kind of hardware failure. I am looking of a early-detection program that probably perform checkup on the machine when the machine is not doing work and popup a information message informing the owner which hardware (can be harddisk, monitor display, etc..) may fail in the next few days. – Larry Morries – 2011-09-26T05:40:43.597
My objective is to detect the failure before it fail and to replace that particular part(s) that may/will fail (probably in the next few days). – Larry Morries – 2011-09-26T05:50:44.693