BurnInTest Professional 6.0.1006

BurnInTest Professional 6.0.1006  is a software tool which enables all the major sub-systems of a computer to be simultaneously stress tested for endurance, reliability and stability.

• Assists in PC Troubleshooting and diagnostics.
• The best value professional burn-in tool on the market!
• Avoid delivering D.O.A. (Dead on Arrival) hardware to your customers.
• Dramatically reduce your burn in times with multithreaded simultaneous testing of components.
• Build your image as a supplier of quality systems.
• Avoid costly downtime, system rebuilds and lost data.
• Test the stability of a system after configuration changes or hardware upgrades (critical for overclocking).

Anyone who has used computers for any period of time will understand the importance of having a stable system. The cost of a hardware failure can be enormous. If you are lucky your data will only become inaccessible while faulty components are replaced. If you're unlucky you can lose your files completely or have them permanently corrupted. Even if you have good backups, you can still lose days of work returning the PC to its pre-failure state. In many cases the lost data can never be replaced and businesses can be brought to their knees, with the loss of documentation, customer details and financial records

What BurnInTest does is thoroughly exercise the hardware in a PC in a short period of time, in the same way as normal applications use a PC over a long period of time. This takes advantage of the fact that computer hardware tends to fail either very early in its life or after many thousands of hours of use. Typically BurnInTest should be used before a PC is put into service, as the failure of a computer that isn’t being used for a critical application and doesn’t have any critical data is much less damaging, (especially if it is still under warranty).

BurnInTest will bring intermittent or hidden problems to the surface so that after a successfully run the computer can be used with a much higher level of confidence. BurnInTest can also be used by overclockers to verify system stability at high clock speeds.

BurnInTest tests the CPU, hard drives, RAM, CD-ROMs, CD burners, DVDs, sound cards, 2D graphics, 3D graphic, network connection, printers, video playback. If you have specialized hardware that BurnInTest does not test, you can even write your own test and integrate it with BurnInTest. PassMark has produced plugin tests for Keyboards, Dial up Modems and FireWire ports. This can all be done simultaneously as the application is multithreaded. The Professional version also has a number of additional features such as tape drive testing, USB port testing, USB 2.0 port testing, Serial and parallel port testing with the use of loop back plugs.

Major Features:

1. Online help & PDF manual
2. A customer style results certificate
3. Support for printing results
4. Logging of results to disk in user selectable levels of detail (in ASCII format & HTML formats)
5. Timed test runs that will stop automatically at the expiry of the selected time or after a number of test cycles.
6. The ability to save your results to disk as log file.
7. 'Notes' and 'Machine ID' fields for storing your own audit information along with the saved log file.
8. Support for copying the results to other applications (eg. MS-Word) via a variety of image formats. (BMP, GIF, EMF)
9. The ability to select the level of load placed on each component, via the setting of a duty cycle for each test.
10. Counters that count the total number of operations performed.
11. An easy to use point and click interface
12. Can be run from a USB drive or CD (under Windows)
13. Summary system information including CPU type, CPU speed & Serial number.
14. Temperature monitoring and temperature monitoring interface (with additional 3rd party Intel Active
15. Monitor, HMonitor, MotherBoardMonitor and SpeedFan software)
16. Laptop battery & UPS monitoring interface (with additional BatteryMon software)
17. Support for production line automation and detailed logging
18. RAM testing beyond the 4GB barrier in Windows 2000, XP and Vista (up to 64GB of RAM)
19. Printer testing using raw print files, or standard B&W or color testing
20. MP3, Midi and Wave file playback for sound card testing
21. Testing of up to 20 hard and floppy disks simultaneously
22. Testing of up to 20 optical drives drives simultaneously
23. CD / DVD testing using specialized test CD/DVDs (or use the complementary CD-Maker software). CD burner testing
24. Windows shutdown and cyclic reboot testing (with complementary Rebooter software)
25. Scrolling 'H's for Electromagnetic Compliance (EMC) testing to ANSI standard C63.4-1992
26. Video RAM testing
27. Testing the playback of Videos
28. Support for SMART hard disk parameter checking
29. If you have specialized hardware that BurnInTest does not test, you can even write your own tests and integrate them with BurnInTest Professional. PassMark has produced plugin tests for Keyboards, Dial up Modems and FireWire ports.
30. Serial port loop back testing. Testing can be performed on up to 64 serial ports at the same time. Loop back plugs are required for this test.
31. Parallel port loop back testing. Loop back plugs are required for this test.
32. USB port testing using the PassMark USB Loop back plug or the PassMark USB 2.0 Loop back plug. Up to 10 USB ports can be simultaneously tested.
33. Tape drive testing under Windows 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista.
34. CPU affinity selection, for targeting testing to a single CPU. This can be useful in dual CPU or quad CPU systems.
35. Advanced RAM testing with page locking and testing beyond the 4GB barrier in 32-bit Windows 2000, XP and Vista. (up to 64GB)
36. Scrolling 'H's for Electromagnetic Compliance (EMC) testing to ANSI standard C63.4-1992
37. Additional options for video card testing
38. Testing on 64-bit (x64) versions of Windows using a native 64-bit version of BurnInTest Professional.
39. The Standard Edition is 32bit only. The Pro edtion is 32bit and native 64bit. When you purhcase the 32bit edition of BurnInTest Pro, you get the 64bit edition for free. The same license key works in both packages.
40. Running BurnInTest from a CD or USB drive.

Enhancements:

• The number of disks that can be tested has been increased from 20 to 50. Note: This has introduced a new BurnInTest configuration file format. Old file formats will be automatically updated when first opened with BurnInTest.
• A new disk error message has been introduced when trying to test a raw disk that contains partitions.
• Correction to error description for the Disk test bad sector threshold error.
• Tuning the new V6.0 memory test and memory test corrections when the system was under very high load. New logging information.
• Improvements to the 2D video memory test (error handling and level 2 logging).
• Updates to the 3D test (DirectX Direct3D updated from August 2008 to March 2009).
• Changes to usage with BartPE, such that the "X" drive (the system disk) is not included in automatic selection of disks or optical drives. Also, it will not be tested as an optical drive.
• Sound loopback test improvements.
• Corrected the stopping of the advanced network test after a configured number of cycles.
• Updates to the CPU system information.
• Improvements made to the detection of the RAM manufacturer.
• Summarized the HDDs in the summary section (grouping the same size disks).
• Corrections to Preferences->Logging radio button selections.
• Corrected temperature preference selections.
• Corrected the check as to whether there is a new version of BurnInTest available.
• Other minor improvements and corrections.

Requirements:

• 32 MB RAM, DirectX 9.0c,
• 12MB disk space (more required to run the disk test).

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