Laptops quietly monitor their own health, but most people never tap into the tools that can warn of trouble long before a crash or data loss. Built-in hardware diagnostics sit below the operating ...

Even after using laptops for years, many users don’t even touch the most important tool: the built-in hardware diagnostics. These tests are preinstalled on every Windows laptop and Mac. Since they are ...

I have a late 2012 Mac mini. Well, actually, I have four of them. But one of them was sick. In this article, I'll show you how I figured out what was wrong and then fixed it. It started a few months ...

Microsoft Surface devices have been known to be the perfect laptop replacements. If you are a Microsoft Surface device owner, then here is a great Diagnostic Toolkit to help you check the health of ...

For the average user, diagnosing potential hardware issues on their device can be a somewhat complicated process. However, Google wants to make this easier by integrating on-device diagnostics into ...

Apple Diagnostics is designed to put your hardware through a variety of tests designed to detect power supply, battery, graphics, logic board, USB and a huge range of other potential problems. While ...

Whether you’re a long-time user or brand new to the Chrome OS platform, you may not be too familiar with the Chromebook diagnostics app. The app was added only just recently to the platform, in ...

If you encounter the ‘Your current version of diagnostics is not up to date’ error message, go to the URL mentioned in the error message and try downloading the ...