| Soyo Computer Inc. SY-TECHAID Tech Aid Debug Card From Soyo |
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| Brand: SOYO Mothboard
Category: CE
List Price: $39.29
Buy New: $34.95
You Save: $4.34 (11%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 10.5 x 2.5 x 7
Warranty: 90 days warranty
MPN: TECH AID DEBUG CARD
Model: TECH AID DEBUG CARD
UPC: 660475040941
EAN: 0660475040941
ASIN: B000234U3I
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Features:
| • | Product Type - Debug Card | | • | Easy to read LED Display on both the TechAID and the Mini Display. | | • | Will assist in revealing where problem is while troubleshooting. | | • | Can be used to identify whether CPU or motherboard is defective. | | • | Will help to determine if the memory is faulty. |
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Product Description
TechAID debug card - a shortcut to all your hardware problems! Just plug into the PCI slot and it will conduct a complete hardware diagnostic test to detect the defective hardware in no time!The purpose of the SOYO TechAID (debug card) is to make the difficult troubleshooting procedure easier and quicker. This debugging card will assist any technicians (from novice to advance users) in accurately and conveniently locating their hardware problems faster, cutting down the troubleshooting time drastically simply by displaying an easy to follow POST (Power On Self Test) code on its display.
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Customer Reviews: Read 11 more reviews...
 Not realy helpful... September 30, 2008
Not realy helpful... Im IT Technical, and try some times to used, but is difficult to read the problem.
 Great tool September 28, 2008
This card is a great shortcut and saves me from looking up what different beeps mean. No technician should be without this tool, but don't rely on it 100%. There is no substitute for experience. As for the probable dork squad employees who say "This tool sucks! It shows my processor as being bad when everything is fine!" CLEARLY have not read the instruction manual where it clearly states FF in one brand of BIOS means CPU/Misc problem, and in another means "Attempt to boot" aka all clear to the MB's knowledge.
Great Diagnostics Tool July 9, 2008
I have used mine many times on many different PCs and it has never failed me. The book tells me what I need to know to fix the hardware problem.
It even has a PSU tester via the LEDs at the top of the card. Once I had a PC that had a serious power surge go through it and I tested it with this card. The power supply passed the separate PSU tester but failed the PSU test on this card. That told me that the board was fried and power was not getting through it.
I take this with me on every job I do.
It is ONLY a hardware diagnostic tool. It does not do software.
Port 80 card February 18, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have used port 80 cards for years for developing device drivers and debugging kernel problems. This particular model has several features which I found useful. The display is on both sides of the board, making it easy to read from any location in the case. The external cable allows the case to be closed and still have access to the display.
I have been using this model for three weeks and it has worked as advertised.
There have been several negative comments about the card. These cards work by displaying the contents of address 80 in the I/O address space. If they are displaying 0xff after booting it is probably because the bios does not use port 80 to display debug information and not due to any fault of the card.
Useful for confirming problems, saving time. December 21, 2007
I've only used this once trying to determine if I had a bad board or cpu. Unfortunately I think the error code given meant it could be both. In the end it ended up being faulty capacitors on the motherboard. I think this tool would be great for someone who fixes computers everyday. It should save time on swapping out components when ruling out problems. For me it confirmed what I researched and really that is why I bought it. If I would have had it earlier it would've saved me some time.
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