System failures and XP Home Edition

Windows XP doesn't have hardware diagnostics as part of the
operating system. When components are failing/failed you'll get
errors or things will stop working but XP won't post up a msg
like "Your Sound card is failing....". About the only thing that has
some degree of self-monitoring is disk drives that use SMART.
But this is a internal function of the drive, not XP.

There are all kinds of utilities to help isolate problems, some are
built in to XP (DXDiag, Chkdsk).
Diagnostics is still a "Human" responsibility - all the PC can do is
supply clues as to what is wrong.

"Dave C" wrote in message

>
> I have XP Home Edition installed. My friend tells me that if one of the
> parts on the Box fails, or is in danger of failing, XP will tell me. This
> helps to correctly identify parts in the Box that need to be repaired. Is
> this right?
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Dave C wrote:

> I have XP Home Edition installed. My friend tells me that if one of
> the parts on the Box fails, or is in danger of failing, XP will tell
> me. This helps to correctly identify parts in the Box that need to
> be repaired. Is this right?


No.

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Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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