21 Oct
2006
21 Oct
'06
5:39 p.m.
Tim wrote...
The XXDP diagnostics should not be given too much
weight.
To much weight, I can understand. But are they worthless enough to not
bother running to get some level of confidence in the machine?
Being able to boot your OS is usually going to be far
more relevant
than anything XXDP would tell you, especially if you do not understand
what the diagnostics are testing or how.
I generally assume that if a board or
machine doesn't pass diagnostics, it's
not worth bothering to run an OS on it. It would just get frustrating with
random issues. Not that diagnostics prevent that totally, but on my other
machines they are a very good litmus test. I have source to all the HP
diags, they are extremely well documented, and they are quite thorough.
I'd feel better if someone having a similarly configured 34 could run the
same diagnostic and see if they get the same odd result :) If so, then I
wouldn't mistrust my machine quite so much.
Jay