PC Clinic Version
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Pro
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Burn-In
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User
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Lite
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Suggested Retail Price
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$297
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$197
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$97
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$47
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User-friendly menus, mouse/keyboard control
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YES
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YES
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YES
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YES
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· Runs fully under DOS and limited features under Win 3.1/95/98/ME
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YES
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YES
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YES
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YES
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· Runs on all CPUs in 640K RAM (8088 through Pentium 4, K7, etc)
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YES
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YES
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YES
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YES
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· Supports ISA, EISA, MCA, PCI, PCMCIA buses
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YES
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YES
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YES
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YES
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500 pages Contextual-sensitive Coaches, Help, Repair Tips
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YES
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YES
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YES
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YES
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Field-upgradeable to professional version via telephone
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YES
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YES
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YES
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YES
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Dozens of Discovery & Diagnostic Menu Items and thousands of tests (CPU, motherboard, memory, printer, video, keyboard, joystick, mouse, floppy, hard drive, CD, SCSI, Sound card, speaker)
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YES
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YES
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YES
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YES
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Tests USB, Multiple CPUs, Y2K ; allows user to disable cache during memory tests and auto-return to DOS when tests are done
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YES
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YES
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YES
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YES
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Basic Configuration Display shows installed devices
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YES
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YES
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YES
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YES
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Virus-scans its own files
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YES
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YES
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YES
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YES
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Fits on one high-density diskette
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YES
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YES
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YES
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YES
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Available with optional serial/parallel loopback plugs
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YES
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YES
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YES
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YES
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Basic Benchmark Tests (CPU, math, video, CD, hard drive)
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YES
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YES
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YES
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No
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Password protection against destructive operations
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YES
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YES
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YES
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No
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Logs test results and configuration data to disk, display, or printer
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YES
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YES
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YES
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No
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Allows user to edit configuration files autoexec.bat, config.sys
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YES
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YES
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YES
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No
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Recovery tool - allows you to edit/save/restore CMOS RAM
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YES
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YES
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YES
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No
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Basic Utilities (Terminal test, Hard drive utilities – park heads, Check HD FAT allocations, Scan HD for bad blocks)
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YES
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YES
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No
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No
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Advanced configuration aids (Memory/Disk dump, memory map, I/O map)
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YES
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YES
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No
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No
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Advanced Diagnostic Features (Burn-In Batch Testing)
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YES
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YES
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No
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No
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Advanced recovery tool - save/clear/restore drive Boot Records
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YES
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YES
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No
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No
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Displays SnapShot Configuration Report (also from command line)
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YES
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No
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No
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No
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Displays whether system needs an upgrade or not
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YES
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No
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No
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No
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Advanced Benchmark Features (Individual benchmarks, execution in loops, memory benchmarks)
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YES
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No
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No
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No
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Intermediate Utilities (Play sounds, vary IRQ/DMA/rate)
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YES
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No
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No
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No
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Advanced Utilities (File find/delete, POST card test, play sound file)
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YES
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No
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No
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No
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Professional Utilities (low level format, HD refresh, HD refurbish, HD security erase)
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YES
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No
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No
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No
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Professional configuration aids (PCI, PCMCIA, PNP, SCSI devices, CPU/PCI/PNP database editing & details, SMBIOS details)
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YES
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No
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No
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No
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Data Template maker shows RAM/Disk content in context
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YES
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No
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No
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No
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Displays POST Code tables for troubleshooting with POST card
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YES
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No
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No
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No
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Allows floppy head alignment with optional Spiral Track diskette
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YES
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No
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No
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No
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Allows head cleaning with optional Marauder cleaning diskette
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YES
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No
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No
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No
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