PC Diagnostics Tools - Are they any good?

I wanted to show you 3 PC Diagnostic tools that I use on a weekly basis to give you a quick ever view of how they work. You can buy all 3 together for less than $40 using my links below.

Note: with the component shortage, these go out of stock. If you need an alternative, please ask in the comments.

ISA/PCI Tester

Mini PCI/PCI-E Tester

ATX Power Supply Tester

[tripplegracing]

Where were these tools when I started with IT way back when. Love the PSU tester

[kyleallred]

Definitely some cool tools of the trade.

[Leos-World]

At 5:45 you have the card inserted incorrectly which most of the time will cause a short! Check the card where is says "rear". That should point to the back of the main board where the e.g. keyboard plug is positioned.

[ThomasGrellner]

IT would be nice to find a simple tester for the power supply under load

[ThienTa-fj]

Hi, I also have that small yellow mini PCI-E debug card and I want to know if there's a way to use it for PC motherboard. I tried it with a PCI-E to mini PCI-E adapter but couldn't get the debug card to work.

[proxy]

I have a question about the debug card with the golden pcb at 5:00
Is it possible to use this card in a M.2 SSD interface on a desktop?

[brocktechnology]

I've looked into POST cards recently and there isn't really a use case for them. For technical reasons they don't really work on PCIe, and PCI slots disappeared 10 years or more ago. You can find them that plug into TPM the connector but with that being required hardware under win11 we can expect it to be come a built in chipset feature very soon. The required bus just isn't exposed anywhere on modern PCs.
Of course maybe this is retro channel, Haven't watched you before.

[tunkunrunk]

I bought the PCI diagnostic card 10 years ago , it was useless, the manual written in poor English, I trashed it