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Summary Apple has announced that they will release diagnostic software for DIY repairs to help identify issues and test parts for the public. According to their claims, the software contains the same features and capabilities AASP and Apple's independent repair program uses. Moreover, they are expanding the SRP to newer devices like the iPhone 15 series and M2 Macs as well. The program has also been released officially in 35 countries. My thoughts Nice to see that Apple is slowly releasing parts and software for independent shops and DIY users. One of the main pain points was the lack of a diagnostic tool and hopefully, this is the beginning where that starts to change. Sources Apple diagnostics software being made available for DIY repairs (9to5mac.com)

So I just finished building my first complete build, hooray! booted it up, got post, installed OS without any issues and got all drivers updated, Sweet! re-download my usual games and work applications and this is where it all goes horribly wrong. Everything is so much slower than it should be. Photoshop takes forever to update, Maya...actually works really well (surprisingly..), but with few exceptions, I get absolutely atrocious frames in all my games, specifically games like World of Warships and Tera online. I've double and triple checked things like cable connections, drivers, and bios settings, and I can't seem to find anything wrong. Can anyone help? DxDiag is attached, and I'll list specs below. Gigabyte Aorus K7 i7 7700K 16GB G.Skill Ripjaws DDR4 Z170 EVGA GTX 1070 SC 1x Crucial Mx300 256gb 1x seagate Barracuda 1tb Win. 10 OEM 64bit 750W Antec Edge gold 80 All parts are running stock speeds, and nothing is overheating. DxDiag.txt

Hi LTT community, So for a while now my PC would randomly crash and shutdown before rebooting itself. Upon reboot I get a A2 error code (should be something to do with my drives) but it continues to boot into windows anyways and appears fine. Sometimes it will shut off again and other times it will be fine for hours before having another episode. Initial research into the problem suggests its a power issue but my PSU seems to have a decent review being 80+ gold and 750W should be enough for my uses (no OC). Recently the intervals between when it randomly shuts off is occurring more frequently. The question is, where should I being troubleshooting? Should I see if the drives is causing the crash or get a new PSU and see if that stabilizes it? Or does anyone have any other insight i'm missing over? Thanks for any help you can offer. - Phil Parts: https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/8JwKJx

Hey all I recently received a old used Asus p8p67 and an Intel i5 2500k which i wanna use for a small game server for me and some of my friends. However i haven't been able to get it to POST. No diagnostic beeps or anything only a weird sound and a small red flash of the dram led(Video included). Tested with multiple PSU's and only pump, fan, 24-pin and 8-pin cup connectors plugged in. Even bypassed the the power button with a jumper just in case that was the problem. Anybody got some advice? That would be much appreciated VID_20191013_172742.mp4

I built a new PC this year in July during the Ryzen 3000 Launch. I got a 3900x Ryzen CPU, a ASUS Hero Crosshair VIII (WI-FI) motherboard, Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO 32GB (4x8GB) RAM, 1070 GPU & a ASUS THOR PSU 850W. I have no overclocks. I started getting BSODs after the first week I got the PC regarding memory corruption, so I went back to Microcenter and they swapped my RAM. Thought my issue was over. Got more BSODs after about a month in. I downloaded Memtest 86+ and ran it stick by stick, showing me I had 1 bad stick. So I was going to RMA it. I kept 3 sticks in, PC kept BSOD still. So I ran the Memtest again on each stick, in different slots. Found that my slot 3 was causing sticks to fail repeatedly. Got a 3800x for testing that its not CPU mem controller. Still shows failing sticks. Won't post at all with Dual Channel with stick in slot 1 and 3. Got a new motherboard (ASUS HERO CROSSHAIR VIII non-wifi), put in my 3900x. Slot 3 still failing on the same set of RAM. Try different stick. Still failing on slot 3. Sometimes won't post. Put in the 3800x as well, same results. So what gives? 2 motherboards, 2 CPUS and we're still at a failing state. For some reason, slot 3 is the only one failing. So what is my problem here? Only thing I haven't tried yet is getting ANOTHER set of sticks. I even borrrowed my friends 3900x to test a 3rd CPU and I still have the same set of issues. Id say memtest is lying to me about the results, but my system is definitely not stable. Can it be my power supply somehow, or do I have a different problem here? Any and all help would be greatly appreciated. BIOS is updated on the current (non-wifi) motherboard & the wifi motherboard. I'm running on 1201 BIOS. Chipset has been updated. Temps are good on the system, not overheating.

whats up guys as the title says i'm looking for some really good hdd diagnostic software to use at the moment i'm using hdd tune pro to test drives . if you have suggestions i would really appreciate it kindest Exploding007Chicken

Hello. Very long story short, I had constant Black screen of Deaths(Screen instantly goes black.. then audio freezes a second later. Forced to restart. Was so bad it happened about 5 times a day) and found out it goes away upon taking my R9 290x out. So I've recently purchased the AMD combat pack as I've been looking at it for a while.. plus my R9 290x recently "died" which made me go ahead and just do this. But today my PC's screen turned black again after weeks without the R9 290x inside. The black screen was different this time though.. it went black, audio froze, but then everything quickly came back(No need to restart PC). Photoshop froze though and needed to be task manager'd after this, and YouTube videos were just green screens for a while. Is it my PSU? it's the only thing staying inside the PC during the upgrade. How do I test that it's healthy? I used CPUID HWMonitor and showed results to someone experienced in this stuff and he said nothing seems wrong with power whatsoever even during gaming. But I want more ways to be extra sure.. I'm worried my PSU would fry the new compenents on its way. I am willing to do other tests as well on other components if someone requests. I'm hoping it's just my current AMD GPU that's helping me pass the time. Mobo: MSI Z97 GPU: AMD Radeon HD 6570 CPU: i7-4770k Ram: 16 Gig PSU: Corsair 1000W (I know. It's definition of unnecessary. I bought it when I had 0 clue about anything PC and my friend building the PC for me accidentally linked the wrong PSU wattage) OS: Windows 10 All drivers up to date.

Is there a list of what the EZ Led Diagnostic lights mean? Specifically on an MSI Z270-A Pro motherboard? I've found diagnostic codes for readouts, but none for the single led variants. I ask because I've put together a machine with some older parts, and it won't post. I'm getting a flashing CPU led directly to Ram. I just don't know how to interpret that. Is it both? When I unseat the ram completely, I get a solid led on Ram. So I interpret the solid light to mean something different than flashing, but I don't know specifically what. Incompatible ram? Does MSI have these debugs listed anywhere.. its not in the manual. I've followed along with the "How to respond to a no POST or no power up situation", between rechecking cables, reseating CPU and ram, different dimm slots, even checking to see if the backplate on the cooler was causing a short. Case fans spin, cpu fan spins, the led strips on the motherboard light up.. I just fail to post both with and without a GPU / using integrated. The only information I have at this point are the flashing leds and I'm hoping someone knows what that may mean. Thanks in advance!

I need to view the DDM (Digital Diagnostic Monitoring) function of my SFP+ fiberoptic transceiver (at the request of the retailer I bought it from) which should resemble the following image in some way shape or form. Unfortunately this command & output (I think it's CISCO specifically) is for a switch. I do not have a switch at this time (Nor do I plan to buy a CISCO one). I need a way to view this data either on a Windows 10 machine or my FreeNAS V11.0 U3 server. ipconfig /all (windows 10) & ifconfig (FreeNAS/linux in general) do not display this data and Google hasn't been of any assistance. The only clues I've found are to setup SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) on the server and find software that can read the transmitted network packets but I'd rather not do that because that'd be quite a bit of trial & error. Nothing on Google mentions how to view this data on Windows but that'd be great too. Any answers are appreciated.

Hi, so I'm having issues booting up pfSense on an old computer and I'm hoping someone could help me with some troubleshooting. My current build: M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 AMD Phenom II X4 965 DDR3 4GB 1600Mhz G.SKills Ripjaws 250GB WD HHD (7200rpm) Logisys 480W PSU My issue: I've tried to boot the 64 bit version both off a usb and DVD but they both weren't recognized and didn't boot. I put the iso for the 32 bit version on a DVD and it booted fine and I got to run the setup for installing it on my HDD. During the default installation I was running I was notified that the system had less than 512MB of RAM and that it would be doing some special install because of that. I've gone back and checked in the BIOS and it sees the full 4GB of RAM so idk what the issue is there. And now when it tried to boot off the HDD I brings me to the standard F1 pfsenseF6 PXEBoot: F1 Screen but if I choose F1 it crashed and restarts F6 it asks for bootable media and if I do nothing it will crash and restart after about 30sec. Anyone have any ideas on what could be wrong. Any help would be much appreciated!

Hello all, I was just looking to see if anyone knew of a good free safe hardware diagnostics program that would allow me to do a full system diagnostics and see if anything is failing me. Any and all help is great thank you!

hey everyone, I'm Alex from Pipemetrics, a little startup making quality Windows apps in Switzerland. I wanted to show off our new project called Diskovery, its a data storage inspection tool, meaning it scans your computer for an attached storage devices (HDD, SSD, USB drives, etc), analyzes them and then gives you a clean and easy to understand report. Its still in beta at the moment so we'd like for people to test it out and give us feedback about their experience it so we can continue to polish it, both from the UI standpoint and the code in the background. Here's the link to read up on all the technical details and download the app: https://pipemetrics.com/diskovery/beta It started when our developer was building a module for our flagship app, Bvckup 2, that can read the S.M.A.R.T. stats on all modern drives. As he continued to tinker with it, it began to grow into something much more useful than his first idea, so we decided to dedicate more time to it and turn it into its own separate program. Its not 100% finished (that's why we are looking for testers) but we aren't looking to turn it into a paid product, even when we take it out of beta. Its free now and it will remain that way. Its really small (225kb), doesn't need to be installed to use and as of right now, it is the only app of its kind that actually bothers to show which physical drives are attached to which RAID volumes. So I think that's it, check it out and let us know what you think, either through here or through the log reporting feature in the app itself. Thanks! Also here's a preview of the UI, in case you wanted to see what a typical report might look like when using the app:

Hello Me and my friends are are using a concert mixer to output music, mic etc. The mixer is an Carvin concert series c1644. Our cool question for today is theres any software to tell us if we need any adjustments in our EQ and such.

Hello everyone! Last night my computer froze and didn't display a bluescreen, it just restarted. I opened up windows reliability and found these 4 errors. Problemname: LiveKernelEvent Code: 141 Parameter 1: ffffe000d6bbf010 Parameter 2: fffff800a8f25cd4 Parameter 3: 0 Parameter 4: 4 OS-version: 10_0_10586 Servicepackage: 0_0 Product: 768_1 OS-version: 10.0.10586.2.0.0.768.101 Landstandard-id: 1030 Bucket-id: BAD_DUMPFILE ---------------------------------------------------------- Problemname: LiveKernelEvent Code: 117 Parameter 1: ffffe000d7aa54c0 Parameter 2: fffff800a8f25cd4 Parameter 3: 0 Parameter 4: 0 OS-version: 10_0_10586 Servicepackage: 0_0 Product: 768_1 OS-version: 10.0.10586.2.0.0.768.101 Landstandard-id: 1030 LKD_0x117_Tdr:9_IMAGE_nvlddmkm.sys ---------------------------------------------------------- Problemsname: BlueScreen Code: 124 Parameter 1: 0 Parameter 2: ffffe001c57f9028 Parameter 3: bf800000 Parameter 4: 124 OS-version: 10_0_10586 Servicepackage: 0_0 Product: 768_1 OS-version: 10.0.10586.2.0.0.768.101 Landstandard-id: 1030 Bucket-id: 0x124_GenuineIntel_PROCESSOR_CACHE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The computer was restarted after an error control. Error control was : 0x00000124 ( 0x0000000000000000 , 0xffffe001c57f9028 , 0x00000000bf800000 , 0x0000000000000124 ) . There was saved a dump in : C : \ WINDOWS \ Memory.dmp . Report ID : 5646dccf - 07d9-4be7 - bbc3-24b54cbaaed7 . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This happened last night and haven't occurred again. System specs: CPU Intel i5-4670k OC 4.4 1.218 vcore (Stable throughout 12 hours of aida64) With a Corsair 110igtx AIO cooler. GPU Evga 980TI SC RAM Corsair Dominator Platinum 1886mhz XMP ENABLED MOBO Asus Formula vii z97 PSU Evga P2 860W Platinum Samsung 850 PRO 1TB SSD OS Windows 10 64bit I always monitor my temperatures and my cpu doesn't exceed 65c while under heavy load, and the gpu reaches 76 at max. I've already rolled back my nvidia drivers too an earlier version if that could've been the problem, i also used ddu to remove the old ones. So my question is what's the problems behind the bsod? whats the cause, if anyone could help me out here i'd be thrilled I hope this is the BSOD file you need, let me know if i've done something wrong. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5-nXXk_NlFGOGx3SW1KeHV6ekE/view?usp=sharing (It's in Danish i hope this will do)

Hello guys yesterday everything was fine with my network. Today when i started my computer the internet was gone..... after i start Troubleshoot problems to find and repair the problem i find out that the problem was this: The Diagnostics Policy Service is not running I watched few youtube but my tries to fix the problem are unsuccessful, please help me! Things i tried: - I tried to start it up manually from RUN > Services.mcs but i got that message: Windows could not start the Diagnostics Policy Service on Local Computer. Error 5: Access is denied. - I tried to System Restore but unfortunately i dont have any restore points. Thank you in advance!

Hello guys yesterday everything was fine with my network. Today when i started my computer the internet was gone..... after i start Troubleshoot problems to find and repair the problem i find out that the problem was this: The Diagnostics Policy Service is not running I watched few youtube but my tries to fix the problem are unsuccessful, please help me! Things i tried: - I tried to start it up manually from RUN > Services.mcs but i got that message: Windows could not start the Diagnostics Policy Service on Local Computer. Error 5: Access is denied. - I tried to System Restore but unfortunately i dont have any restore points. Thank you in advance!

I don't have the money to update my hardware. However I did buy Windows 8.1. I formatted the hard drive and did a virgin install of windows 8.1 Now I keep getting Watch dog errors. I had no problems with XP for years. I tried to update each driver one at a time but windows keeps telling me that all the drivers are up to date. Does anyone know of some *** free *** testing software that I can use. I have : Mother Board : Biostar N61PC-M28 CPU : Phenom 9850 Quad core 2.5 Gig Ram : 4 gigs Windows 8.1 64 bits. Since I had no problems with XP I believe this is a driver issue. I just cant narrow down the driver/drivers. Also : I noticed that my cpu starts off at 2.5 gig but quickly drops down to 1.1 gigs. If that helps. Thank you for time. Scott

Hey guys, my parents have a somewhat old dell computer that I recently put a crucial mx100 into and reinstalled the operating system on it. I used the original Hitachi 500GB drive for storage. It has 8GB of RAM, a Intel i7 860 1st-gen processor, and a dell motherboard (not sure which one). The model is a Dell Studio XPS 8000. I think it's about 5 years old?? Anyways, I'm having problems where the computer will completely freeze up, I'll get a white, line-filled, screen, sudden shutdowns, etc. It seems like it could be a blown motherboard capacitor, but I don't see one. The computer was freezing up before I reinstalled, so I do not think it is a corrupted install. Any suggestions/advice?