Hardware check: data carrier, main memory and battery
You cannot check three important components of your PC or notebook with an additional tool; Windows on-board tools are sufficient for the hard drive, the main memory and the notebook battery.
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The remaining capacity of this notebook battery, determined by dividing the two values 25,490 by 30,000, is almost 85 percent after more than three years.
Windows 10 can test the hard drive (s), the main memory and, in the case of notebooks, also the battery for their function
To check the battery status, right-click on the Windows icon, select “Windows Powershell (Administrator)”, tap
powercfg -energy -output c:energiebericht.html and confirm with Enter. The battery test takes about a minute; then open the HTML file saved under “c:” by double-clicking and scroll down to the entry “Battery: Battery information”. If you now put the values ”Last full charge” and “Intended battery capacity” in relation, you will get the remaining storage capacity (see picture).
If you suspect that the main memory may be defective, start the RAM test. To do this, tap
in the execution line and confirm with “Restart now and search for problems”. Windows 10 starts the computer in a special test mode that subjects the memory bar to a 15-minute test. Back in Windows, navigate to the result by calling up the “Event Viewer” and clicking on “Windows Logs -› System – ›Search” in the app. Use the search term “MemoryDiagnostics” to get to the result.
To check the data carrier for defects, start Powershell with administrator rights as described. You start the test with the Windows own tool CHKDSK with the command
“C” stands for the system partition. The check usually takes less than a minute and the result should be “File system was checked, no problems found. No further action required. ”Appear. If you would like to have possible errors repaired immediately, use the additional parameter / f (for “fix”). With / r (for “repair”) Windows 10 also corrects damaged hard disk sectors.
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