NEW VERSION RELEASE - MicroScope QUATTRO!

JUST RELEASED!

PUT PC TROUBLESHOOTING ON AUTO PILOT!

NEW UPDATED MicroScope QUATTRO is a 'Triple Boot' Software Suite and comes as a 2 CD package bursting with diagnostic routines and utilities to help make troubleshooting PCs as easy and automatic as possible.

MicroScope QUATTRO - has all the previous tests and utilities plus new and enhanced features including;

• Added multi-processor tests on Intel Quad Core processors
• Modified Processor Identification for an improved identification string
• Increased the number of HD sectors per Read, Write and Seek tests
• Increased support for Audio and NIC cards
• Tested chips include i3, i5, and i7 chips

Tech Tip - Guaranteed Data Erasure

Here's another of the utilities available to you with MicroScope - SecureWipe completely erases all drive contents for security of classified or sensitive data. Three security levels available that meet or exceed all government and commercial requirements for drive sterilization.

Short Secure Wipe - This will over-write the data twice, which is sufficient to obscure it from anyone without access to a sophisticated data recovery laboratory.

Long Secure Wipe - The data will be over-written six times, which will prevent its recovery by techniques available in the private sector.

Long Wipe with Format - This option makes a total of seven passes: six over-writes followed by a pass that does a low-level format of the drive, and meets the most stringent national security requirements for declassifying a drive.

Entire/Partial - Any of the choices above can be applied to all or part of a drive. If Partial Drive is selected, you will enter the start and ending cylinder and head.

Low Level Format - Performs or initiates a low-level format on all drive types (MFM, RLL, ESDI, SCSI, SATA, and all IDE drives) even if the BIOS LBA functions are enabled. This includes factory-type initialization of all IDE & EIDE drives as well as access to true factory-style format routines.

You can do a true factory low-level format on any drive type, regardless of the size, make or model. Also if track Zero is damaged it will relocate track zero and fix those drives.

For more information on this and the other tests available please CLICK HERE.

Tech Tip - New Builds and Intermittent Faults

Another one of the great features in MicroScope is the Batch Menu, which is designed for running multiple tests in a continuous or pass-bound mode. This option is useful for testing newly assembled systems and for diagnosing systems with intermittent errors.

The options are available to select specific tests to be performed, and to save the selected tests to a floppy disk. These selections can then be loaded again in order to facilitate specific batch test routines.

The RUN ALL test selection will perform all non-destructive and non-interactive test routines. This will test the following equipment if it is detected by the diagnostic;

Systemboard, Cache Memory, Base Memory, Extended and/or Expanded Memory, Floppy Disk(s) Read and Write (Partial/Entire) Butterfly Seek, Fixed Disk(s) Read, Butterfly Seek and Controller tests, CD ROM Butterfly Seek and Read, Sound Card check, Internal Serial, Internal Parallel, and Video Memory test.


All errors will be logged to the error log until the error log is full. The error log can hold up to 16 errors per test. If the Error Halt has been selected, additional errors for the test will be displayed on the screen.

The option is available to create a report of the system tests that are run, and to save this report to a parallel printer or USB stick.

For more information on this and the other tests available please CLICK HERE.

Micro 2000 Blogspot: Tech Tip - Testing and Quality Assurance Reports

Micro 2000 Blogspot: Tech Tip - Testing and Quality Assurance Reports

Tech Tip - Testing and Quality Assurance Reports

Another one of the great features in MicroScope is the Report feature which allows the creation, saving, loading and logging of a report.

The options in this menu are Create Report and Log Report. This feature is designed for the creation of a report on systems that have been tested using the Run All or Run Selected options. If running under the M2000 O/S the report format can be saved to or loaded from a USB stick or floppy diskette.


Create Report - this function will create the report format. The name, address and phone numbers may be input for both the testing facility and the client. Pressing Enter on this option will bring up the Testing Facility window.

Log Report - this option allows the entire report to be saved as a file or displayed on the screen or sent to a parallel printer. While running under the M2000 O/S, the report may also be saved to a floppy disk or USB stick. If running under DOS, the report may be saved to any valid floppy, fixed or network drive by entering the complete path for where the file is to be saved.

Error Log - the Error Log window will display all errors detected from the Run All Tests and Run Selected Tests. The Error Log can hold a maximum of 16 errors for each test performed. This log will be added to a report if errors were detected during testing.

Error Halt Enabled/Disabled - by selecting Error Halt Enabled, the operator is choosing to halt the batch when the first error is detected. If Error Halt is disabled, each test will continue until the error log for that specific test is filled (16 errors). Enabled will stop on the error and Disabled will continue testing.

For more information on this and the other tests available please CLICK HERE.