From f2ee2526c34a2dffd3ebd79ce1126c0db613c8cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Claude Becker Date: Sat, 24 May 2014 11:56:55 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] AHT are now called Apple Diagnostics --- Readme.markdown | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Readme.markdown b/Readme.markdown index 3392760..9e7e608 100644 --- a/Readme.markdown +++ b/Readme.markdown @@ -5,11 +5,11 @@ Description ------------- -Apple computers ship with a preinstalled suite of hardware diagnostic tools, known as Apple Hardware Test (AHT). In principle you can start them by holding the ``d`` key while booting. Newer models support holding ``option d`` to load AHT over the internet. Refer to the official Apple documentation for details: Using AHT on [Intel-based Macs](http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1509), [Mountain Lion](http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11342), and [Mavericks](http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14291). +Apple computers ship with a pre-installed suite of hardware diagnostic tools, known as Apple Hardware Test (AHT). In principle you can start them by holding the ``d`` key while booting. Newer models support holding ``option d`` to load AHT over the internet. Refer to the official Apple documentation for details: Using AHT on [Intel-based Macs](http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1509), [Mountain Lion](http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11342), and [Mavericks](http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14291). Apple redesigned the AHT, now called [Apple Diagnostics](http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5781), for Macs introduced after June 2013. If however, you reinstalled an older computer from scratch, the diagnostic tools might no longer be available. Unless you have the original disks that came with your computer, there seems to be no way to restore the AHT, as the [official AHT](http://www.info.apple.com/support/aht.html) page only contains information about ancient computer models. -It happens that Apple provides disk images with AHT for most computers, but does not make the links publically available. Various blogs and forums, mostly [Riven by Five](http://rivenbyfive.blogspot.ch/2012/01/download-and-run-apple-hardware-test.html) and [MacForum.ro](http://macforum.ro/topic/1194-apple-hardware-test) have gathered a list of download links. The rest were obtained by scraping `http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Hardware_Test/` for all the links of the form `0(18|22)-\d{4}-A.dmg`. +It happens that Apple provides disk images with AHT for most computers, but does not make the links publicly available. Various blogs and forums, mostly [Riven by Five](http://rivenbyfive.blogspot.ch/2012/01/download-and-run-apple-hardware-test.html) and [MacForum.ro](http://macforum.ro/topic/1194-apple-hardware-test) have gathered a list of download links. The rest were obtained by scraping `http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Hardware_Test/` for all the links of the form `0(18|22)-\d{4}-A.dmg`. Even though there's no guarantee that this list is correct or complete, some links can come in very handy to whoever is trying to debug hardware problems.