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Search Tech-Forums - link takes you to our Forum's search page. Note: The following is only a text archive! To view the actual forum discussion, please visit our website at http://www.tech-forums.net Pages:1 MUST HAVE TOOLS & UTILITIES for a PC Tech(Click here to view the original thread with full colors/images)Posted by: qbbraveheart so in your opinion, whats the MUST have tools & utilities that a PC Tech must have(software and hardware related) TIA :D Posted by: hillbillybob What ever you need Good tool set, I haven't needed to solder....recovery software, and a good understanding of customer relations Posted by: qbbraveheart yea besides a tool set antivirus spyware/adaware boot disks emergency startup disks what else guys im sure im missing some things lets put together a comprehensive list :D Posted by: COCOCOOKIE P.O.S.T. card Antivirus Rescue Disk (AVG home edition has that feature) Anti-ESD kit, and...I can't remember anything else right now... Anyone...???? Posted by: qbbraveheart whats a P.O.S.T. card? a list of the processes that goes on during POST? keep it coming guys maybe we can get this stickied :cool: Posted by: starkmann I bought my LAN admin one of those ratcheting (ap?) screw drivers. He seems prettyhappy with it. Even for people who aren't supposed to do hardware work, there are a lot of times you need to open something, maybe work a couple drives around. Posted by: TheMajor [color=darkred]A Windows XP disc. How else do you want to enter recovery console?[/color] Posted by: qbbraveheart ^^^haha this is true Posted by: COCOCOOKIE POST is the "Power-on Self Test". It takes place right after you start the PC and it tests hardware devices. If some piece fails that test you'll get a serie of beeps. With the POST card (which you insert in a PCI slot) you can locate the piece of hardware by interpreting the beep code (the card comes with a manual with the most common beep codes for different BIOS) Posted by: TheMajor [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by COCOCOOKIE [/i] [B]POST is the "Power-on Self Test". It takes place right after you start the PC and it tests hardware devices. If some piece fails that test you'll get a serie of beeps. With the POST card (which you insert in a PCI slot) you can locate the piece of hardware by interpreting the beep code (the card comes with a manual with the most common beep codes for different BIOS) [/B][/QUOTE] [color=darkred]Sounds useless. You can find a description of Award/Phoenix and Ami beep codes on the internet, write them down, and you'll have the same thing + it saves time and money.[/color] Posted by: COCOCOOKIE It's not useless. I didn't put what it does in detail; it's not just to interpret beep codes. Just Google "POST card" or go to [url]www.microcenter.com[/url] to find out what it does. If you don't know what it is for don't make assumptions...give me a break! Posted by: COCOCOOKIE Here you go,rookie.... [url]www.unicore.com/products/postcards/pcipost.htm[/url] Posted by: swishchix i usually have these tools w/ me... 1. bootdisk or startup disk for different types of OS (if incase of emg & u forgort it @ home, just download a quick startup disk @ [url]http://www.bootdisk.com/[/url]) 2. antivirus (norton corporate) if you want a quick free anti-virus apps just download 2 free av apps (avg antivirus and personal avira) - avg antivirus can be downloaded from download.com - avira can be downloaded from free-av.com 3. usb thumb drive (maybe 1GB or minimum 256MB would be fine) 4. a small pen screw driver 5. retractable ethernet cable (rj45) 6. i also have a burned cd/dvd disk of all other drivers that i might use when i'm fixing computers like... - ace ftp - network monitoring tools - putty.exe - and other stuff. these are only suggestions as long as you can fit them in your back pack just put them on the side to get ready so incase your client/s need a tech in a hurry it's all setup for you. i hope this helps! Posted by: MrCoffee Belkin 36 peice tool kit + PSU tester, Small torch, Spare molex splitter, volt meter. Linux live CD XP CD XP SP2 CD memtest86 floppy USB flashdrive with: CCleaner Adobe reader ATI Tool AVG & definitions Blacklight CDex CPU-Z Debug Tools WinXP DebugWiz O&O Defrag DosBox DrTCP Everest Home Ewido & Definitions Firefox Foxit reader hijackthis image Shrinker JAP John the ripper Kaspersky AV 6 Leaktest tooleaky firehole MD5sum memtest86 outpost Prime95 quickzip460 regCleaner (jv) reshack rootkitrevealer SAMinside HDD diagnostic tools for all main manufacturers Security taskmanager SP2 Support tools Spywareblaster & definitions Spybot search & destroy & definitions Super PI TrueCrypt Acronis trueimage ultraMon Win98 boot disk creator winimage WinRAR winzip81 List is always being revised and I'm currently looking for a decent Bootable utilities CD Posted by: The_likely_lad Ah crikey A JCB 28 set screwdriver Soldering iron (for laptop board/socket repair) Test Meter (volt meter) Psu tester Xp home/Pro/server/2000......etc Hirems Boot CD Bart PE Can Of compressed Air About a hundred various CD's scattered around the shop and probably on there way out inside customers machines (the amount of xp cd's i have lost is truly upsetting) Ah bollocks it......Basically quite a bit of stuff. But hey the mans only as good as his tools (or something like that) Posted by: Elbatrop1 [quote]List is always being revised and I'm currently looking for a decent Bootable utilities CD[/quote] Have you tried Super Win PE? I've used it a few times, and found it to be pretty useful. Posted by: MrCoffee what sort of things can it do? I also forgot an item from the list and thats a disk management tool e.g. acronis disk director or partition magic. I have vcom system commander here and its pretty cool because it can do everything that the server version of disk director can do and thats like $500. Posted by: qbbraveheart great guys....lets keep it going!!!!! :D this'll be great for the newly certified A+ tech or anyone else for that matter I have to get me one of those USB thumb drives Posted by: The_likely_lad Also make sure you have a lovely brick wall...... Posted by: qbbraveheart haha yea not for the PC either sometimes lol Posted by: IBMan various boot disks, copies of all windows versions(you never know which version you'll run into) various linux distros including live versions. laptop. vBulletin Copyright ©2000 - 2003, Jelsoft Enterprises Limited. PPC Management vB Easy Archive Final - Created by Xenon |