Lab 3-9 Using a System Board Diagnostic Utility

There are a variety of utilities that can be used to diagnose problems with a system board. They can also be used to create benchmarks of your system. A benchmark is a report of where things are when the system is running well. Having benchmarks available allows you to compare a diagnosis report to the original report so you can see what is different.

1. Go on the Internet and search for diagnose. List three programs available for diagnosing your computer.
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2. Locate the program Winoptimizer and download and install it. If you have problems installing, see me for a temporary administrator account.
3. Run Winoptimizer and let it run all of the tests.
4. Answer the questions below from the report Winoptimizer generates.

BIOS type and date

Type of CPU

Speed of CPU

Operating System

Buses on system board

MMX or 3Dnow?

DirectX version

Memory read speed

Installed RAM

Memory write speed

Memory copy speed

Page file size