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1. 1999 2012 PassMark Software 134 BurninTest V7 0 N size in MB Exclude disk volumes from the automatic disk test selection if the size is less than the size specified in MB This option has been added to allow small volumes such as the System Reserved volume on an SSD under WinPE to be excluded from the automatic disk volume selection Usage example n 2000 will exclude all disk volumes from the automatic disk selection if specified if less the size of the disk volume is less than 2GB P Force all files e g configuration and log files that would normally be saved or loaded from the User s Personal folder ie where the directory path has not been specified to be saved or loaded from the BurninTest directory This can be useful when running BurninTest from removable media such as a USB drive CD DVD Firewire drive etc R Executes the tests immediately without needing to press the go button It also skips the pre test warning message S scriptfilename On startup BurnInTest will automatically run the script file specified by scriptfilename scriptfilename can be an absolute or relative path to the script file but if the path and or filename contain any space characters you should enclose the entire string in double quotes Learn more about Scripting here Often c lt config file gt is used with the s command line parameter This starts the script with a specific configuration rather than the
2. F View errors by categories Ready This Burn In Results tab displays a summary of all the results of all the tests that are currently running or have just run Context sensitive popup menus are available using the mouse Right click while double clicking on a test result row will open the Common test error messages help to display a description of the Last Error Description Test Name This column shows a picture depicting the test type and the name of the test Only those tests actually running are displayed Cycle The number of test cycles that have been executed for a particular test The meaning of a test cycle varies from test to test For example for the Printer test it is the number of full pages printed for the Hard disk test it is the number of file write verify cycles that have occurred See the test description for more details about the significance of this field Operations 1999 2012 PassMark Software 30 BurninTest V7 0 5 5 The number of test operations that have been executed for a particular test The meaning of a Operation varies from test to test For example for the Printer test it is the number of characters printed for the Hard disk test it is the number of bytes that have been written or verified See the test description for more details about the significance of this field The values are expressed in Units Millions Billions Trillions and Quadrillions Error
3. sccccceeeeseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeeseeeeeeeseeeaeeeseeeeeeeneeneeeess 128 Part X Test automation and productivity 132 Maintaining multiple CONMPiQUIATIONS ccceceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeeseeeeeeeseeeeneeeeeeeeeets 132 2 Command line arguments more OPtiONS cceeececeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeeseeeeeenseeeeeeeneeeeeeens 133 1999 2012 PassMark Software Contents 3 Scripting a series Of teSts c05 c ciseeccccesacgepesaeedecccassectuccaesacceaaecettdas dueccansseecdcayseccnaasgetteans 136 Scripting test PreferenCe ou cecescseeeseessessesseeseeseeseeseeseesoesnesaesaesaeseeseseneseenousoesaesaeuseeseusnesaesaesaesaesaevanvaneanss 145 4 Externally controlling BurnlnTest ccceeeeseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeeseeeeeeeseeeeeeeseeeeeeeseessneess 157 5 Installing BurninTest to a USB drive or an optical GiSk cceeeeseeeeeeeseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeneeeeneees 158 6 Testing with no operating system installed ccccceeeseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeeseeeeeeeseeeeeeeeeeneneees 159 7 Reboot restart CYCIING cccceeeeseceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeeseeeeeeeseeeeeeeseeeeeeeseeeeeenseeeeeeeseeesnees 160 BY HOIK ysieecc pe tieerseetie E ee ating Seether ete A einai ee aes 161 9 Language SUpport nsr Enn decceusececc at adeedcctecesuued cedeuceusesseceusestacouseeseetenstaceuss 162 Part XI Test hardware 164 1 Audio loop back Cable s 2 1iicccc c0cccecseeecci nsec ceeenee ce cnceee ceeeenee ce cca
4. Burn In Results Select the Burn In Results tab to display test results Note On starting the tests the Burn In Results tab will be displayed Event log error log Select the Event log tab to display a list of events errors that occurred during a test Temperature Select the Temperature tab to display the temperature during testing from the configured hardware components Test windows When starting tests a test window will be opened for each test type e g Disk to display information about the testing that is currently being performed See the Test descriptions for additional information 5 1 Main Menu Options File Load Test Configuration A test configuration that has been previously saved to disk can be loaded using this menu option The loaded configuration will set all the parameters available in the test duty cycles and test preferences windows see above to the values contained within the file Using this menu option in conjunction with the Save Test Configuration As function it is possible to create a number of standard test configurations See Maintaining multiple test configurations for more information Save Test Configuration As This option allows the current configuration settings to be stored in a file for later use All the values available in the test duty cycles and test preferences windows see above will be saved into a file whose name is selected by the user Using th
5. Examples SETSERIALPORTS COM1 detect_loop COM2 detect_loop COM3 detect SETSERIALPORTS DISABLE no TIMEOUT 20 SPEED 19200 SETPARALLELPORTS COMMAND Overview Set the Parallel test options Syntax SETPARALLELPORTS PORT lt parameter gt TEST lt parameter gt Parameters PORT Parallel port number Value of port number TEST Test type 1 DETECT_LOOP Detection and loopback test 2 DETECT Port detection only Note Only 1 parallel port can be tested at a time Example SETPARALLELPORTS PORT Ipt1 TEST detect SETSOUND COMMAND Overview Set the Sound test options Syntax SETSOUND TEST STANDARD WAV lt parameter gt MIDI lt parameter gt MP3 lt parameter gt 1999 2012 PassMark Software Test automation and productivity 155 SETSOUND TEST LOOPBACK DISTORTION lt parameter gt Parameters TEST Sound test type 1 STANDARD Standard test 2 LOOPBACK Loopback test WAV File path MIDI File path MP3 File path DISTORTION Max Distortion value Examples SETSOUND TEST standard WAV myfile wav MIDI myfile midi MP3 myfile mp3 SETSOUND TEST loopback DISTORTION 7 SETCPU COMMAND Overview Set the CPU test options The CPU affinity options cannot be scripted Syntax SETCPU GP lt parameter gt FPI lt parameter gt PRIME lt parameter gt MAX_HEAT lt parameter gt MMX lt parameter gt 3DNOW lt parameter gt SSE lt parameter gt SSE2 lt parameter gt SSE3 lt parameter gt SSE4_1 lt parameter gt SSE4 2
6. Memory devices DIMM 3 DIMM 4 Virtual memory Graphics ATI Radeon HD 3450 Chip Type DAC Type Memory BIOS Driver provider Driver version Driver date Monitor 1 1999 2012 PassMark Software Test reporting 123 4091MB 2871MB 2GB DDR3 SDRAM PC3 8500 Corsair CM3X2G1600CSDHX 1 5V Clk 533 3MHz Timings 7 7 7 20 Max freq 2GB DDR3 SDRAM PC3 8500 Corsair CM3X2G1600CSDHX 1 5V Clk 533 3MHz Timings 7 7 7 20 Max freq C pagefile sys allocated base size 4091MB ATI display adapter 0x95C5 Internal DAC 400MHz 256MB 113 AAXXXXX XXX ATI Technologies Inc 8 821 0 0 1 26 2011 1920x1200x32 59Hz Primary monitor 14 BurninTest V7 0 Disk volumes A Floppy C Local drive NTFS 465 76GB total 390 29GB free D Optical drive PASSMARK_DVD UDF E Removable Disk drives Disk drive Model WDC WDS000AADS 00L4B1 ATA Device Size 465 76GB Disk drive Model Corsair VoyagerGT USB Device Size 15 12GB Optical drives D HL DT ST BDDVDRW GGC H20L CD RW DVDRW BD HD DVD ROM Network Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller Speed 1Gb s Ports Communications Port COM1 RS232 Serial Port max Baud rate 115200 Parallel port LPT1 1999 2012 PassMark Software Test reporting 125 USB Intel R 5 Series 3400 Series Chipset Family USB Universal Host Controller 3B3B Intel R 5 Series 3400 Series Chipset Family USB Universal Host Controller 3B3E Intel R
7. 4 STOP Auto stop tests WINDOWS 1 BLOCK Block critical window errors 2 ALLOW Allow critical window errors Example SETERRORS ACTION beep WINDOWS allow SETNETWORK COMMAND Overview Set the network preferences for test The advanced network test options cannot be scripted Syntax SETNETWORK ADD 1 12 lt parameter gt SETNETWORK ERROR lt parameter gt TIMEOUT lt Parameter gt RATIO lt parameter gt SETNETWORK ALL lt parameter gt SETNETWORK BLUETOOTH lt parameter gt NAME lt parameter gt Parameters ADD1 ADD12 Supply the network address The following parameters are global i e not for a network port test disk ERROR Error setting for bad packet 1 EVERYPACKET Every bad packet generated an error 2 HIGHRATIO High bad packet ratio generated an error TIMEOUT Timeout value in msec RATIO Bad Packet Ratio Ratio of Bad packet to total packets ALL Test mode LOOPBACK YES ETHERNET WIRELESS 1999 2012 PassMark Software Test automation and productivity 151 BLUETOOTH bluetooth_active YES NO NAME Remote device name Name of the remote Bluetooth device Examples SETNETWORK ADD1 192 1 1 1 SETNETWORK ADD2 192 1 1 2 SETNETWORK ADD12 192 1 1 2 SETNETWORK ALL yes SETNETWORK ERROR everypacket TIMEOUT 3 RATIO 2 SETNETWORK BLUETOOTH yes NAME My test device SET2DGRAPHICS COMMAND Overview Sets the 2D graphics test options The scrolling H EMC test and multiple moni
8. BurnintTest BurninTest V7 0 Users Guide May 2012 1999 2012 PassMark Software BurninTest Introduction by PassMark Software PassMark s BurninTest is a software tool that allows all the major sub systems of a computer to be simultaneously tested for reliability and stability Anyone who has used computers for any period of time knows 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 wth the loss of documentation customer details and financial records BurninTest V7 0 1999 2012 PassMark Software All rights reserved No parts of this work may be reproduced in any form or by any means graphic electronic or mechanical including photocopying recording taping or information storage and retrieval systems without the written permission of the publisher Products that are referred to in this document may be either trademarks and or registered trademarks of the respective owners The publisher and the author make no claim to these trademarks While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of t
9. PRETEST1 PRETESTS run as pre test Plugin option available for Plugins 1 3 YES NO Examples SETPLUGIN PLUGIN1 c plugin1 exe PRETEST1 yes SETPLUGIN PLUGIN2 C plugin2 exe PRETEST2 no SETVIDEOPLAYBACK COMMAND Overview Set the Video playback files for test Multiple monitor testing options cannot be scripted Syntax SETVIDEOPLAYBACK VIDEO 1 4 lt parameter gt Parameters VIDEO1 VIDEO4 Video file path within double quotes Example SETVIDEOPLAYBACK VIDEO1 c video1 avi VIDEO2 c video2 mpg VIDEOS c video3 wmv VIDEO4 c video4 mpeg SETSERIALPORTS COMMAND Overview Set the serial test options Syntax SETSERIALPORTS COM lt 0 63 gt lt parameter gt SETSERIALPORTS DISABLE lt parameter gt FLOWCONTROL lt parameter gt TIMEOUT lt parameter gt SPEED lt parameter gt Parameters COMO COM63 Com port selection 1 DETECT_LOOP Detect and loop test 2 DETECT Detect test only 3 NONE remove from comp port selected The following are global COM port test parameters i e not specific to a COM port 1999 2012 PassMark Software 154 BurninTest V7 0 DISABLE Disable RTS CTS and DSR DTR test phase YES NO FLOWCONTROL Use RTS CTS flow control during loopback YES NO TIMEOUT Send and recv Timeout Value in ms PORT SPEED Kb s 110 300 600 1200 2400 4800 9600 14400 19200 38400 56000 57600 115200 CYCLE_115K 128000 256000 CYCLE_256K 921600
10. See also USB ports test USB test preferences 1999 2012 PassMark Software BurninTest V7 0 12 12 1 Support Support available is shown below e Problems and FAQ e Fault finding e Common error messages e System requirements e Contacting PassMark Software Problems and FAQ We ve compiled answers to commonly asked questions in our BurninTest FAQ below You can also discuss any questions or suggestions you may have at our BurninTest Discussion and Support forums as well as read solutions for issues that have been previously answered If you need further assistance please feel free to contact us by e mail Frequently Asked Questions FAQ License keys Q My License key does not seem to work Q How many licenses do need if purchase the software Q I ve lost my registration key how can get it back System Requirements Q Does BurnInTest run under DOS Install and Uninstall Q How do install the software need some help to Unzip the file have just downloaded Q don t need to do any more tests how do uninstall BurnInTest Q Does BurnInTest V7 0 support the use of BurnInTest V6 0 configuration files General Usage Q The test run stops after 15 minutes why Q How does BurninTest work Doesn t it just wear my computer out Q How long should run BurninTest for Test Setup and Information Q have a quad core dual core dual CPU system does BurnInTest test all CPUs
11. Weight Indicators EMC standards Storage Temperature Usage Temperature Max speed Model number RoHS Lead free 1999 2012 PassMark Software 2 0 HighSpeed and FullSpeed and is backwardly compatible with USB 1 1 and 1 0 Compliant Standard 4 wire USB 2 x Balanced Signal 1 Voltage VBUS 1 Ground GND Bulk 4 4V 5 25V No external power supply is required 250mA typical operation 24Mhz 3 x 64 byte control 4Kbyte data available 8KB Firmware code and data available High impact MABS plastic 65mm x 50mm x 20mm 2 5 x 2 0 x 0 8 inches 35g 1 302 Orange LED USB2 0 HighSpeed or USB1 0 FullSpeed indicator Green LED Transmit data Red LED 1 Power from USB bus Yellow LED Receive data Red LED 2 USB bus transmission error indicator AS NZS 3548 1995 EC 20 C to 70 C 0 C to 45 C 480 Mbits sec PMUSB02 rev2 Yes 170 BurninTest V7 0 Compatibility Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows 2003 Server Windows Vista Windows 2008 Server and Windows 7 are supported Window 95 98 ME NT4 Mac amp Linux are not supported In order to use the plugs BurninTest Professional V4 0 or above is required or the stand alone test software USB 2 0 and 1 1 ports are supported when connected to a USB 1 1 port only the lower speed USB 1 1 mode will be used For further details regarding any of the products in this section please see the PassMark website www passmark com
12. must conform to the scripting file format After processing the script commands in this file BurninTest will delete the file See STARTLOGGING Syntax EXECUTE lt Filename gt lt Parameters gt Parameters Filename The name of the file to execute The file name must be enclosed in double quotes The file must be an executable Parameters Any command line parameters which you wish to pass to your executable If any of these parameters are filenames you should enclose them in double quotes Examples Start PassMark s Sleeper application with user defined parameters EXECUTEWAIT sleeper exe S1000 R 30 N 1 E Start up Notepad with some results before starting tests EXECUTEWAIT c winnt system32 notepad exe c MyResults Results txt RUN CONFIG EXIT COMMAND Syntax EXIT Parameters none Note BurninTest will exit with a return code indicating whether the tests run during the script passed or failed An exit code of 0 means SUCCESS while and exit code of 1 means FAILURE Examples 1999 2012 PassMark Software 13 BurninTest V7 0 RUN CONFIG Exit BurnInTest and return an exit code to the batch file EXIT LOAD COMMAND Syntax LOAD lt File name gt Parameters lt File name gt The full path name to a configuration file This configuration file must have been previously created from within BurnInTest A partial path name can be used to load a configuration file from the curren
13. 32 0C 46 0C 50 0C Min Current Max Temperature HDD 0 WDC WDS5000AADS 34 0C 34 0C 34 0C OO0L4B1 ATA Device Min Current Max Test Cycles Operations Result Errors Last Error CPU 3 40 559 Billion PASS o No errors Memory RAM o 4 493 Billion PASS o No errors 2D Graphics o 400 PASS o No errors Temperature z PASS o No errors Optical disk D 1 251 Million PASS o No errors Sound o 1 125 Million PASS o No errors Disk C it 3 150 Billion PASS o No errors Network 1 1 9760 PASS o No errors TEST RUN PASSED 1999 2012 PassMark Software Test reporting 9 6 Example Customer Test Certificate PASSMARK SOFTWARE BurnIntTest Certificate Report Date 12 15 08 Customer ian Technician tom Generated by BurnInTest Version V6 0 Pro System summary System component Description Computer Name XW6400XP32 Operating system Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 build 2600 32 bit CPU type Intel R Core TM 2 Quad CPU Q6600 2394 0 MHz RAM 2047 MB Video card NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400 128MB Video card ATI Radeon HD 3450 512MB Disk drive Model ST3160827AS Size 149 0GB Disk drive Model WDC WD800JD 60LSA0 Size 74 5GB Optical drive TSSTcorp CD DVDW SH W162Z Result summary Test Start time Test Stop time Test Duration Mon Dec 15 18 27 41 2008 Mon Dec 15 18 28 43 2008 000h 01m 02s Test Result CPU PASS Memory RAM PASS 2D Graphics PASS Disk C PASS Optical disk E PASS Sound PASS Network 1
14. 5 Series 3400 Series Chipset Family USB Universal Host Controller 3B3F Intel R 5 Series 3400 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller 3B3C Intel R 5 Series 3400 Series Chipset Family USB Universal Host Controller 3B36 Intel R 5 Series 3400 Series Chipset Family USB Universal Host Controller 3837 Intel R 5 Series 3400 Series Chipset Family USB Universal Host Controller 3838 Intel R 5 Series 3400 Series Chipset Family USB Universal Host Controller 3B39 Microsoft Microsoft 3 Button Mouse with IntelliEye TM Intel R 5 Series 3400 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller 3B34 Corsair Voyager GT SN A804012700016209 Detailed event log Event LOG NOTE 2011 05 18 17 06 21 Status PassMark BurnInTest V7 0 Pro 0000 BETA LOG NOTE 2011 05 18 17 06 22 Status Main Tests started LOG NOTE 2011 05 18 17 06 22 CPU SSE4a test s selected but CPU feature not detected LOG NOTE 2011 05 18 17 07 27 Status Test run stopped 1999 2012 PassMark Software 126 BurninTest V7 0 Result summary Test Start time Wed May 18 17 06 21 2011 Test Stop time Wed May 18 17 07 27 2011 Test Duration 000h Oim 06s Temperature CPU 1 average 34 3C 49 8C 52 3C Min Current Max Temperature CPU 1 core 1 37 0C 52 0C 55 0C Min Current Max Temperature CPU 1 core 2 32 0C 50 0C 51 0C Min Current Max Temperature CPU 1 core 3 36 0C 51 0C 53 0C Min Current Max Temperature CPU 1 core 4
15. Cycle back to 300 Baud for Cycle to 115K option 128000 256000 Cycle back to 300 Baud for Cycle to 256K option Bytes Sent This is the number of bytes that have been sent to the serial port Bytes Received This is the number of bytes that have received from the serial port Errors This is the number of errors detected Note From V4 1 1025 the Serial Port error reporting has been improved with framing errors buffer overrun errors input buffer overflow errors parity errors and Transmit buffer full errors now reported rather than a broader error description 1999 2012 PassMark Software Test descriptions 63 Throughput This is the real measured throughput for the port This will generally be less than the Speed see above as there is some overhead in the code and in the data transmission itself e g Stop bits Note The Serial port test has been designed to use under moderate CPU load Very high CPU load especially CPU Interrupt load may lead to data overrun events as the CPU is unable to handle the Interrupt quickly enough This is normal under very heaw load 6 16 Sound Card This test operates in two different modes The standard mode verifies that the sound card can play back MP3 wave form audio and MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface sound There is also a loopback mode which requires a loopback cable Loopback mode measures the distortion between audio input and audio output Loop
16. DirectX version specified in the System Requirements section or above is not installed correctly You need to install the most recent driver for your graphics card You ve selected an incompatible screen resolution and or color depth for your desktop Error creating DirectX textures Out of video memo This error means that you have exhausted all of your graphic adapters onboard memory Warning Switching to reference rasterizer BurninTest was unable to initialize a hardware accelerated device and is using software emulation to render the 3D graphics test This will result in a much lower frame rate Video memory corruption One of the pixel values read from video memory is not the same as that which was written to video memory This may indicate that your video memory is damaged Error initializing DirectDraw DirectDraw could not be initialized Check that DirectX version specified in the System Requirements section is installed Check that the most recent version of your video adapter driver is present Frame could not be displayed and was skipped DirectDraw reported an error when displaying one of the test patterns to the test window If you receive many of these errors reboot and check that the most recent version of your video adapter is present There are several instances when this message is expected One example is when the video display mode is changed or power control settings are altered Not enough video memory
17. Error ratio exceeded 185 Networking functions aren t available ws2_32 dll 185 New Features 14 NIC 88 No audio media in CD ROM 185 No Endpoints Check endpoint exe amp firewalls 185 No errors 185 No free memory for buffer 185 No free memory for write buffer 185 No hardware support for operation 185 1999 2012 PassMark Software Index 215 No IPv4 Endpoints Check endpoint NIC and operating system 185 No IPv6 Endpoints Check endpoint NIC and operating system 185 No media detected in drive 185 No mediaindrive 185 No media in tape drive 185 No NIC detected Check test type 185 No operations during test period 185 185 185 No operations in a memory test process No operations reported in timeout period No optical drive letter specified 185 No permission 172 No permission to open RAW network socket Not enough free disk space 185 Not enough memory for the test 185 Not enough packets sent to verify error ratio Not enough video memory available for test Not ready to receive data timeout 185 Not ready to send data timeout 185 Notes 114 O Open test log 20 24 OpenGL is not installed or is not installed correctly 185 OpenGL version outdated needs to be v1 2 and above 185 Operations 29 Ops 29 Options 90 Ordering information 18 Out of video memory 185 Overview of BurninTest 10 P 185 185 185 Packets TST 47 Parallel 166 Parallel device driver could not detect pot 185 Par
18. Line Drawing Bitmaps Shapes The Windows operating system has failed to correctly complete the graphical operation that was requested by BurninTest This could indicate that Windows is running low on internal resources or that there is a problem with the software drivers for the video card No free memory for buffer Windows does not have enough free memory to allow the allocation of a buffer If the test that displays this error has not started then this may not be a system error but rather a warning that there was not enough memory to run the test For example the memory test may report this error if there is insufficient available memory to start the memory test rather than a physical memory error This may be due to i Another BurnInTest test using a lot of memory e g the 2D video memory test with the test all available memory option can use a significant amount of system RAM depending on the system or ii Another process is using a lot of memory It is suggested that other applications are closed whilst BurninTest tests are running or iii there is not enough memory for some other reason Not enough free disk space There is not enough free space on the disk to create a test file for the Disk tests Test file could not be created BurninTest was unable to create a file on the disk in order for it to be able to run the disk tests Check that you have access to the disk with Windows explorer Check file write and create permission
19. SSTL 1 8V Minimum clock cycle time tCK 2 500 ns Supported CAS latencies 4 5 Minimum CAS latency time tAA 12 500 ns Minimum RAS to CAS delay time tRCD 12 500 ns Minimum row precharge time tRP 12 500 ns Minimum active to precharge time tRAS 45 000 ns Supported timing at highest clock speed 5 5 5 18 Minimum Row Active to Row Active Delay tRRD 7 500 ns Minimum Active to Auto Refresh Delay tRC 55 000 ns Minimum Recovery Delay tRFC 105 000 ns Data access time from clock tAC 0 400 ns Minimum Write Recovery time tWR 15 000 ns Minimum Write to Read CMD Delay tWTR 7 500 ns Minimum Read to Pre charge CMD Delay tRTP 7 500 ns Address Command Setup Time Before Clock tIS 0 180 ns Address Command Hold Time After Clock tIH 0 250 ns Data Input Setup Time Before Strobe tDS 0 050 ns Data Input Hold Time After Strobe tDH 0 130 ns Maximum DQS to DQ Skew tDQSQ 0 200 ns Maximum Read Data Hold Skew tQHS 0 240 ns Supported Burst Lengths 4 8 Refresh Rate Reduced 7 8us Supports Partial Array Self Refresh No 1999 2012 PassMark Software 130 BurninTest V7 0 Module Height 30 0 mm 1999 2012 PassMark Software 132 BurninTest V7 0 10 10 1 Test automation and productivity BurninTest provides a number of features to facilitate test automation and improve productivity These include Maintaining multiple test configurations for different test hardware Command line argument
20. This option allows the user to specify whether the CD RW to be tested is supports 650MB or 700MB DVD RWs and DVD RWs are available in a number of sizes The most common are 4 7GB data This option allows the user to specify the size of the test data to be written to the disk Test data drive For Burn CD RW and Burn DVD RW only PassMark format Test CD or DVD data is temporarily created on a hard disk before burning this test data to the CD or DVD This test data is very large By default it will be created in the BurninTest installation directory and is deleted after the CD or DVD burn test The target drive for this test data may be changed from the default installation directory to the root directory of a hard disk on the system This hard disk drive letter is specified from the drop down Test data drive list The selected drive will be saved as user configuration after selecting OK you do not need to add a CD drive to alter this drive configuration This option is provided for when BurnInTest is run from read only media CD DVD s Floppy disks or other disks with insufficient space and where the hard disk that BurnInTest is installed is to be tested by the BurninTest hard disk test writing and reading a large temporary test file to a disk that is being tested with BurnInTest should be avoided Autoplay configuration When an optical disk is inserted into a drive Windows will attempt to auto play the disc In Window
21. dll 185 Error loading Parallel port device driver Check administrator privileges 185 Error log 30 33 Error playing video s audio stream 185 Error playing video s audio stream CPU usage 20 24 30 33 185 185 185 exceeded 185 Error querying device 185 Error receiving packet 185 Error searching for Bluetooth device 185 Error sending packet Check destination address 185 Error settings 30 33 Error verifying data in RAM 185 Error while formatting tape partition 185 Error while loading rewinding tape 185 Error while locking tape in drive 185 Error while opening COM port 185 Error while reading data block from tape 185 Error while reading file from optical disk 185 Error while reading from the disk 185 Error while receiving data from the parallel port 185 Error while receiving from the COM port Check plug is connected 185 Error while searching for files on optical data disk 185 Error while seeking to new position on tape Error while sending data to the COM port Error while sending data to the parallel port Error while setting current COM port timeouts Error while setting new COM port configuration Error while writing file marker between files 185 Error while writing to tape 185 Error while writing to the disk 185 Error writing data to spooler 185 185 185 185 185 185 Error writing to disk Disk is full 185 Errors 29 172 Errors ignoring 30 33 External Plug in file does not exist 1
22. for Everyone and not just for the Administrator Q want to test my tape drive how do I know what device ID to use If your system has only a single tape drive then the system device identifier will be tape0 and the physical definition will be tapeO If you have more than one tape drive then their physical definition would be automatically assigned by Windows NTDETECT COM in NT at startup in the increasing order of their SCSI id s So if you have two tape drives with SCSI id s 3 and 5 then the tape drive with SCSI id 3 would be tape0 and the tape drive with SCSI id 5 would be tape1 For BurnInTest you only need to enter the device identifier TAPEO TAPE1 etc You must have a windows device driver installed to use the tape drive So if it is not working this is the thing to check Note also that Windows 9x do not support tapes drives Q How do I setup the Advanced Network test to test more than 6 network ports on my system The BurninTest help file contains information on the workings and setup of the Advanced Network test In summary this test allows an M N network test where M is the number of PC s running BurninTest and N is the number of PC s running Endpoint software To test say 6 network ports on a system you will need to run BurnIinTest on this PC with 6 network ports For this test you would only run BurnInTest on this one system You will also need other PC s 1 or more on the network with 6 or more Network
23. help to display a description common errors Event Classification Test events Such as test errors are classified into different severity levels of CRITICAL SERIOUS WARNING or INFORMATION Where an informational line related to this error follows the error line the error Classification is not repeated and is shown as a LOG NOTE to aid determination of the number of unique errors per classification A test failure is defined to be one or more CRITICAL SERIOUS or WARNING errors INFORMATION level events are logged for information only and are not considered to constitute a test failure An event classification of NONE also exists and this means that the event is not meaningful in the context of the test being undertaken and events configured this way are ignored All events may be configured to not be reported if they are not meaningful in a specific test environment by setting to NONE in BlITErrorClassifications txt Each line is color coded based on the Error Classification Time stamp The time stamp records the time when the event occurred The format is YYYY MM DD HH MM SS Test type The test type refers to the name of the test which originated the event Examples are RAM Floppy Disk The word Status indicated that the event is not an error but just a status message Details This is a text field that contains additional information about the error or status message In some cases a log entry may be spread
24. hence you could use a single operations counter such as just Write BurninTest will display each label and number of operations counters separately in the test window They will be summed for the main window operation count These values are 64 bit integers 6 Plug in defined string values and labels are provided for the display of other interesting data to the user e g the plug in could provide throughput in Mb s to BurnInTest BurninTest displays this information in the test window Both of these fields may be flagged as not in use Software may be written to interface an external plug in test module with BurnInTest An interface is defined to pass test parameters between an external test application and BurnlInTest BurninTest will attempt to start this application when the Plug in test is run and this application is specified as the Plug in file BurninTest will pass a flag that indicates that the test run is still underway e g has has not been stopped by the user and BurninTest will pass in the Duty cycle Before starting the test the plug in application must initialize the test parameters Such as display labels and flag that they have been set Once the test is started the test result parameters and most test window labels may be updated based on the test results BurnInTest will pick up any changes Specific cases where the Plugin must flag to BurninTest that new parameters are available are for a new labels as a group flag
25. htm file containing the Result Summary only information and 1999 2012 PassMark Software Selecting Test Preferences 87 detailed errors 1 or 2 lines per error Trace file detail level A Trace file detail leve may be selected for detailed disk logging to specify the amount of information to be written to disk The options that may be selected are 1 No Trace log No trace log is produced This is the default setting 2 Activity Trace level 1 Produces a trace with the Normal information a summary of test activities e g The starting and stopping of tests and some additional error descriptions 3 Activity trace level 2 Produces a trace file with the Activity Trace level 1 information and a detailed description of the test activity Summarize Some test runs can lead to a large number of error events that are the same To produce a summarized log of these errors select Summarize When more than 3 events that are the same are produced in chronological order the 3rd event through to the last same event will be summarized into a single line together with an indication of the number of events that are the same that have not been displayed The default is to not summarize events Max file size lines Setting Max file size specifies the approximate maximum file size in terms of the number of lines in either the log or trace files Periodically log result summary reports during a test Wh
26. interrupts ie CPU load and interrupt priorities The COM port typically has two 16 byte buffers on a UART Super IO chip One for transmit and one for receive The COM port detected a Receive Overrun Error occurs if data is received by the receive buffer when the receive FIFO buffer is full That is before a COM port interrupt is serviced by the CPU to copy the receive buffer to RAM The COM port interrupt trigger level is a Windows setting this is typically defaulted to 14 ie generate a CPU interrupt when 14 of the 16 bytes in the UART buffer are full In this case the last byte in the UART receive FIFO is overwritten and that data is lost To investigate further you could try changing 1 the COM port speed reduce 2 the COM port duty cycle reduce 3 the UART settings please see http support Microsoft com kb 131016 EN US For example reduce both buffers to 8 ensure that the transmit FIFO is not larger than the receive FIFO 4 If you are running the optical drive test at the same time then you should check that the optical drive is on a controller that is set to DMA rather than PIO as PIO will lead to a large number of CPU interrupts which will impact the servicing of the COM port interrupt understand that the controller can automatically drop from DMA to PIO mode based on the number errors Such as a badly scratched disks COM port detected a Receive Parity Error The serial port hardware detected a parity err
27. 37 2 2D graphics video MEMOLPY cccceeeece cece ence ee ee ee ee ence eeeeee ee eeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeeseeeseeeseeeseeeseaneeeesees 38 3 3D Graphics test Suite ccceeeeeeeee eee cece ee daunan inann eeee ee eeeeeeeeeeseeeeeseseeeeeeeseeeseeeseeeseeesseneeeesees 39 4 BlUeCtOOtM P E E A E N A E E debe E 40 r e AE T T E A E E T Goad eenstenee cone temsiae 41 E E E E A A A I E AT A A E A 43 7 Monitor EMC testing cccccsecccecstcedecacteneeceslaseccecteneewecccedenecceasewescecesueccesvewetecedeuteceaeewetceesecees 47 8 Network Oira EAE NEA AAEE EE EE RAN TEASEE NEREA NENEKA 47 9 Advanced network teSt ccccceeeeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeseeeaeeeseseseaeseeeseaeeeeeseeneeeesees 49 10 Optical drive test aranna cceade cect ssa secede te ocala hiteccesndeecatastececees EANTA ENEA tania ents 52 14 Paralel port te st 22 0 ce ciccsce3de coh cocedeecicdecetacecccccnsadeccecateccetdaddiectacaceccnatedecctcaacseectaddecetuaneseets 56 12 Plugin eaea a a REEE A AEEA T aa 57 13 Printer Tesh sccccscssccctss sncecetesovcctecscncencsoetccstcncetabssoececctsbcanetasoecadatanteteitdouscditcddacencseescaateadetens 58 T4 RAM ES a a a aa a a a aaaea ia aa EE 59 15 Serial port tSarain NEAS 61 pie e E i o A AA T A A E A L E A A A A E 63 17 Tape dive teign 2cccc2 2cc2 seectecececccnesceececscaeesqatscavcceceadeecteandcecccaesdcatecassaeccadeeategaadzececaaracats 65 18 USB port te Siennine ae a R E A ARR EREI EAA a R 66 19 VOEO PI
28. Adapters and these systems must run the Passmark Endpoint software The Endpoint software can be found in the BurninTest installation directory and should be copied to the Endpoint PC systems You specify the Network ports on the BurnlnTest system to test the network load protocols etc in Configuration gt Test Preferences gt Network gt Advanced Network Test gt Advanced test options gt Test On etc You do not specify the Endpoint Network port addresses as these are determined automatically by BurnInTest The Advanced Network Test can also be used to test the Endpoint systems Network ports and intermediate networking equipment Problems during testing Q My system crashed after X days of running BurninTest but after a reboot was OK again See the general comments below about system crashes and fault finding tips Q My system is unstable What can I do See general instructions for tracking down a fault Q Problems with 2D and 3D testing on Windows 2003 server and Windows 2008 server In Windows 2003 and 2008 server all video card acceleration is turned off by default In BurnInTest you ll 1999 2012 PassMark Software see the error 3D Graphics test Error initializing Direct X device You need to manually turn it back on if you plain to do video testing It seems that Microsoft s position is that this acceleration isn t required for typical server functionality Anyway to fix this 1 Start the Display applet in Con
29. CPU protection purposes These are not highly accurate temperature sensors CPU temperatures can generally be sourced directly from the CPU or from an external component on the Motherboard e g a SuperlO chip In all cases the CPU temperature reported by BurnInTest is sourced directly from the CPU and this may vary from externally reported CPU temperatures These values should be treated as approximate values In general the CPU temperature is more accurate at higher temperatures as this is when the CPU mainly utilizes the temperature monitoring and less accurate at lower temperatures Some Intel CPU temperatures less than 50C may mean little more than just that the temperature is less than 50C While the temperatures may have a high degree of error at lower temperatures the values can still be quite useful in determining differences between temperatures such as determining whether a different cooling solution leads to a higher or lower CPU temperature The CPU temperature calculation is specific to each type of CPU The current version of BurnInTest supports the following CPUs e Most Intel Core2 Atom and Core i3 i5 i7 CPUs e AMD K10 and K11 CPUs Opteron and Phenom The Hard disk drive HDD temperatures are sourced from the disk S M A R T attributes As such the disk needs to support S M A R T most modern HDDs do Both nVIDIA and AMD support temperature monitoring from a number of their GPUs where they support GPU temperature mon
30. PASS Notes Certification This document certifies that the Tests described above have been carried out by a suitably qualified technician on the System described above Signed Suite 10 Level 1 38 Waterloo St Surry Hills 2010 Sydney Australia Phone 61 2 9690 0444 Fax 61 2 9690 0445 E Mail info passmark com 1999 2012 PassMark Software 12 BurninTest V7 0 9 7 Example memory module SPD data Detailed Memory module SPD data is available in a level 2 activity trace log file This includes information such as the memory module timings An example extract from a level 2 activity trace file is shown below Memory Total Physical Memory 2047MB Available Physical Memory 623MB Memory devices Slot 1 1GB DDR2 SDRAM PC2 6400 Corsair CM2X1024 6400 SSTL 1 8V Clk 400 0MHz Timings 5 5 5 18 Max freq Slot 2 Not populated Slot 3 1GB DDR2 SDRAM PC2 6400 Corsair CM2X1024 6400 SSTL 1 8V Clk 400 0MHz Timings 5 5 5 18 Max freq Slot 4 Not populated Memory SPD DIMM 0 Memory type DDR2 SDRAM SPD revision 1 2 Manufacturer Corsair Manufacturing date Year 0 Week 0 Serial number 00000000 Part number CM2X1024 6400 Clock speed 400 0 MHz Memory size 1024 MB Number of banks 8 Row address bits 14 Column address bits 10 Bus width 64 bits Device width 8 bits Number of ranks 1 ECC No Module voltage SSTL 1 8V Minimum clock cycle time tCK 2 500 ns Su
31. Pasiist Codbowe ieped ricessan Cintowe Hare PC rcktor Techewns rore ly om tows EAT 1999 2012 PassMark Software Test reporting 115 General report information The fields in this section allow the entry of information related to the identity of the machine being tested This can be an aid to users that plan to test numerous machines and need to associate the results obtained with a particular machine at a later date Users would typically do this in order to maintain an audit trail for quality assurance reasons Three free form text fields are available The information entered into this window will be displayed in saved result files in the main window and on printed results Machine Type Typically the make and model of the machine would be entered in this field e g Dell Dimension T800 XPS Serial Number Typically the serial number would be entered here e g D345 789 YT99 Notes This is a spare text field that users may make use of to save any additional information that needs to be associated with the machine being tested or the organization doing the testing No more than 300 characters may be entered into this field Certificate report information The fields in this section allow the entry of customer specific information for the system under test This information is used in the Customer Test Certificate report See Preparing a Customer Test Certificate for more information about configuring a test certificat
32. PassMark Software Blutetooth adapter is installed correctly and that the device driver is correctly loaded This error message should be accompanied by a more detailed description of the error Failed to connect to the Bluetooth device Error searching for Bluetooth device Unable to connect to the Bluetooth device specified in Preferences gt Network Check that your test Bluetooth device has Bluetooth enabled and is within range of the system This error message should be accompanied by a more detailed description of the error Unable to determine service profiles for Bluetooth device Unable to determine which service profiles are supported by the specified Bluetooth device Check that the Bluetooth device is setup to allow other devices to find it This error message should be accompanied by a more detailed description of the error Bluetooth device does not support required service profile see help The specified Bluetooth device does not support the File Transfer Service that is required for the Bluetooth test Use a different Bluetooth test device Bluetooth test not supported on this Operating System see help The Bluetooth test is not supported on the test system Operating System The Bluetooth test is available on workstation versions of Windows XP SP3 Vista and Windows 7 Warning Network low speed threshold crossed The current throughput for a Network port being tested with the Advanced Network test has dropped below t
33. Q Are there any recommendations when using the USB2 0 Loopback plugs with BurnInTest Q Can test my FireWire ports How Q How can use BurnInTest to test for counterfeit oversize capacity USB drives 1999 2012 PassMark Software Q BurnInTest does not have a test for my specialized hardware Can add my own test to be run with the other tests Q Can test my system without an operating system Q having trouble setting the lock pages in memory in Windows XP Q want to test my tape drive how do know what device ID to use Q How do setup the Advanced Network test to test more than 6 network ports on my system Problems During Testing Q My system crashed after X days of running BurninTest but after a reboot was OK again Q My system is unstable What can do Q Problems with 2D and 3D testing on Windows 2003 server and Windows 2008 server Q BurnInTest crashes at the start of testing This might result in a hardware reset an invalid page fault or a partial crash with a window being empty black Q have a ATI Radeon video card and after running for a while the system hangs Q get the error 2D graphics Failed Windows call Bitmaps and have a Matrox or nVidia video card Q BurnInTest crashes with rubbish on the screen or a black screen when the monitor powersave feature turns on after X minutes of running Q get an error like Protection Error Debugger detected please shut it down
34. a block at this position in the file This process is repeated the number of times specified by the user in the disk preferences seek count field Steps 1 and 2 are repeated until the disk full level is reached At this point all the test files written to 1999 2012 PassMark Software Test descriptions 45 disk will be deleted and the process will be repeated The Random seeking mode is not supported when the Raw disk test mode is selected High Low frequency data overwrite works by first writing a file with a high frequency pattern 10101010101010010101 then overwriting this with a low frequency pattern 00001000010000100001 and then verifying that the low frequency pattern has been fully and correctly written Note This test pattern will write more data than it reads verifies this is the reason the MB Written and MB verified shown on the disk test window may not be equal Butterfly seeking works by detecting the hard disk geometry number of cylinders etc and then seeking between cylinder 0 and cylinder X and back to cylinder 0 This is repeated the user specified seek count times before Xis incremented by 1 This is repeated until the last cylinder on the Volume is reached The number of operations reported refers to the number of combined Seek Read operations Note 1 that this test is only supported in Windows XP and above on non Floppy non optical drives 2 Performing a seek in many cases does not mov
35. a cycle Force a shutdown or request a shutdown Enable and disable the Windows auto login feature XP and later Include reboots into your hardware stress testing plan when used with BurninTest 10 8 Hotkeys In addition to the standard menu hotkeys such as ALT F to open the File menu the following Function hotkeys are also available F1 Opens BurninTest Help F2 Opens the BurninTest Preferences window F3 Opens the Test configuration and duty cycles window F4 Sets BurnInTest to the Auto Run mode as though BurnInTest was run with the r command line parameter and starts a test run F6 Starts a test run F10 When run from Microsoft WinPE Windows Pre install Environment F10 will open a command window 1999 2012 PassMark Software 12 BurninTest V7 0 10 9 Language support BurninTest is in English However in BurninTest V7 0 Non English character sets are now supported Examples of this support are e The error classification file that specifies the BurnInTest error strings can include non English error strings and comments e g All of the main error strings could be changed to another language Input fields within BurnInTest can be non English This allows for example report information such as the customer name technicians name machine type and additional notes to use non English character sets This information will be displayed in BurninTest windows and output to BurninTest reports
36. address 127 0 0 1 is good for testing as it is an internal loop back No permission to open RAW network socket If you are a non administrator logged you will get this error with the Network test Access to Raw Sockets is granted on a per transport basis For the address family AF_INET only administrators have the access necessary to create Raw Sockets The test should be run while logged in as the administrator Timeout sending pack et Timeout waiting for packet Error sending packet Error receiving pack et Bad packet These errors relate to one of the following problems The Host using the network address selected doesn t reply to ping messages Try a different host There is a configuration problem in your network connection Your network card may be faulty The network itself is not reliable The information send was not the same as the information echoed by the remote host The network is congested or faulty and the packets are not being echoed within the timeout period specified in the preferences window There may be another device on the network that is interfering with the test We have had reports of some server software using broadcast messages to check for licensing This has been seen to cause some timeouts with the standard network test Try testing on an isolated network Network test alarm Error ratio exceeded The Bad Packet ratio specified in the Network test preferences has been exceeded Got someone e
37. an error handling Advanced Network control messages such as setting up new connections or the reporting of statistics from the Endpoint to BurninTest No Endpoints Check endpoint exe amp firewalls BurninTest has been unable to find any instances of the Endpoint software that must be run on a remote system for the Advanced network test This is commonly caused by either Endpoint exe not being run on a remote system or a Firewall blocking UDP access to the Endpoint on the remote system Please check at least one Endpoint exe is running on a remote system and that Firewalls are configured to allow TCP and UDP access to it Unable to connect to Endpoint Check endpoint exe BurninTest has been unable to connect to the Endpoint software that must be run on a remote system for the Advanced network test This is commonly caused by a Firewall blocking TCP access to the Endpoint on the remote system Please check at least one Endpoint exe is running on a remote system and that Firewalls are configured to allow TCP and UDP access to it Unable to load performance counters The advanced network test uses system performance counters This error is displayed if on test startup the required performance counters can not be loaded The performance counter library needs to include a value for the Network Interface The Performance counter library can be rebuilt using lodctr R please see http support microsoft com id 300956 before doing th
38. as it runs out of available RAM Addressing Windows Extension AWE memory test 32 bit BurninTest Professional only The Addressing Windows Extension AWE memory test allows a larger area of memory to be tested on 32 bit versions of Windows It requires some additional administrator user rights It will also only work in Window XP See the description in the RAM test preferences window for more details The advanced memory test is only available in the Professional version of the software See also RAM test preferences Setting administrator user rights 6 15 Serial port test Applicable to BurninTest Pro version only Tests the serial communications ports connected to the PC Up to 64 serial ports may be tested simultaneously The serial ports and test speed can be selected from the Test Preferences window A serial port loop back plug per port is required to run this test These can be purchased from the PassMark web site www passmark com or you can make them yourself Each loopback test cycle corresponds to about 10 seconds of data transmission followed by a signal pin test phase The signal pin test phase checks that the following pins on the serial port are functioning correctly RTS Request to Send CTS Clear to Send DTR Data terminal ready DSR Data set ready The number of operations corresponds to the number of bytes sent and received The duty cycle affects the time spent waiting between cycles The serial
39. automatically as a result of cutting power GMR Head Unknown Amplitude of thrashing distance of repetitive forward reverse head motion Amplitude eree 4com poe Temperature unknown units cm fr while head is positioning FA Read Error Lower Number of errors while reading from a disk Retry Rate Raw values are an absolute reading of an attribute as reported by the hard disk what constitutes a high or a low value will differ between attributes and hard disk models If you are unsure of how to interpret these values it is better to observe the normalized value m a s N o gt 7 Descriptions for several of the attributes are taken from various sources on the web including wikipedia org 1999 2012 PassMark Software Selecting Test Preferences 85 8 5 Errors Action on Error A number of actions can be taken when BurninTest detects an error Continue The error counter is incremented and testing continues Play sound and continue The error counter is incremented the computer plays a sound via the sound card and testing continues System beep and continue The error counter is incremented the system speaker beeps and testing continues Auto Stop tests All the tests are stopped and the failed window is displayed Windows errors Abort Retry Cancel You can specify whether BurninTest should block or allow critical Windows errors 8 6 Logging Automatic test results logging reporting Test e
40. be useful for testing PC hardware 1 In a production line environment 2 That is to be shipped with Linux 3 In a known virus free environment and 4 To try to determine the cause of corruption of an Operating System The most common technique is to use a Windows Pre install environment BurnInTest has been tested with Microsoft WinPE allowing a bootable CD DVD or USB flash drive with BurnInTest to be used to test a system without an installed operating system As the pre install environments do not include all of the tools and drivers that a standard Windows system would there are some limitations in testing a system with BurninTest using a Pre install environment These are outlined below Please note that you can run BurninTest from a CD DVD or USB drive without a Pre install environment if your target test system has an operating system installed A pre install environment is only needed if the system to be tested does not have an operable Windows operating system installed Please see Installing BurninTest to a USB drive or optical drive Microsoft WinPE support Currently the following BurninTest tests are supported e CPU e Disk disk volumes only e Network Standard e Optical disk read tests e Parallel Port e Plugin BurnInTest plugins e RAM e Serial port e USB using the Passmark USB plugs Currently the following tests under are not supported e Video Playback e Sound e 2D e 3D e Printe
41. copy of the software to a different device After the transfer you must completely remove the software from the former device Transfer to Third Party This licence is granted exclusively to you the original licensee and therefore no right to resell transfer or re assign the license is granted An exception may exist for manufacturers distributors and dealers resellers of computer systems or computer software who have specifically negotiated for such an exception with PassMark to resell a particular license key as part of an installed system or as an authorized reseller of the software on its own SITE LICENSES If this software is being installed as part of a Site License purchase then following conditions apply The software may installed on an unlimited number of computer systems provided that 1 The computers on which the software is installed belong to the one legal entity Subsidiaries parent companies brother sister companies affiliates and or agents are not considered to be the same legal entity and are therefore not entitled to have the software installed on their computer systems unless specific permission is granted by PassMark 2 The computer systems must all be situated in the one country It is permissible that the computers be located in different cities or states within the one country 3 All such computers are the property of or are being leased or borrowed by the licensee and are on the premises of the licensee 4
42. dimensional graphical functions Monitor EMC testing 3D Graphics test Tests the DirectX 3D graphics system CPU tests Tests a wide cross section of CPU functionality Hard disk and floppy disk tests Reading writing files Memory RAM test Tests the Memory in the computer Network test Tests the Network connection Advanced Network Test Optical drive test Tests the CD ROM CD burner DVD ROM DVD burner BD ROM and optionally the sound card Parallel port test Tests the parallel port connected to the computer Plug in test Integrate your own test to BurninTest Printer test Tests the default printer Serial port test Tests the serial ports connected to the computer Sound card test Test wave form MIDI and MP3 audio play back 1999 2012 PassMark Software Test descriptions Tape drive test Tests the tape drive USB port test Tests the USB ports on the computer Video play test Test the playback of different video files 6 1 2D graphics graphics functions This suite contains a number of tests that exercise the standard Windows graphics functions and the video card The test can be run across multiple monitors By default a test window will be opened when the tests are started This will be placed on the primary monitor and sized with width based on the BurninTest test window size and height With BurninTest Professional the user can change this default by increasing the number of test windows from 1 up to 4 Th
43. disk self test H Set the screen resolution to 1024 x 768 with 32 bit color on startup This is intended for use with BurninTest when running on Microsoft WinPE J Cycle Disk test patterns between test files when cyclic set Note Random seeking will be skipped in this case This option has been added to allow multiple test patterns to be used across very large disks without waiting for the disk to be completely tested with one pattern before moving on to the next disk test pattern K Keep disk test files Specifies not to delete the disk drive test files when an error e g Verification error occurs This is intended to assist investigating disk errors It is recommended that this option is used in conjunction with the Auto Stop Tests on Error feature within Preferences Once the test files have been investigated they should be deleted manually KA Keep disk test files Specifies not to delete the disk drive test files in all cases Once the test files have been investigated they should be deleted manually L x y wt ht Starts BurninTest with the main window located at top left co ordinates x y and with width wt and height ht It is important that there are no white space characters in x y wt ht specifications M Automatically display the Machine ID Window when BurninTest is started This can be useful in a production line scenario to allow the tester to enter test specific information in a more automated fashion
44. fails Note BurninTest will not re send data in order to achieve recovery 1999 2012 PassMark Software 1 BurninTest V7 0 Could not play back MP3 file The playback of an MP3 test file has failed This can be due to the Audio device driver being out of date Advanced Network test error General Advanced network test error A level 1 trace log may provide additional information No media detected in drive No floppy disk has been detected in the floppy disk drive No operations reported in timeout period There where no operations during the last watchdog time period 2 minutes or the test did not start This error is a warning that investigation is required Advanced Network Send error Advanced Network Receive error There has been an error when trying to send or receive test data during the Advanced Network test This is a network error A level 2 trace log may provide additional information Unable to open test window BurninTest has not been able to open a test window This may be due to lack of system resources Failed to create texture for 3D test This is a graphics card or DirectX error With version 5 2 not V5 3 or later this error could have occurred if the user had insufficient privileges to create temporary files in the root directory of the drive such as a standard user on Windows Vista DirectX Direct3D version required is unavailable DirectX 9 0c is not installed on the test system Install DirectX 9 0c Di
45. has been purchased the time is unlimited Note that you can still get a much longer test run in the trial version by clicking on the Go button each 15 minutes After the software has been purchased the test duration can be set from the Auto Stop field in the Test preferences window Q How does BurninTest work Doesn t it just wear my computer out Societies reliance on computers means that the cost of hardware failure can be enormous and embarrassing BurninTest thoroughly exercises PC hardware in the shortest period of time so intermittent or hidden problems are found before they turn into a disaster The typical life span of the main moving component in a PC the hard drive is quoted at around 300 000 hours by manufacturers such as Seagate The use of BurninTest for a 6 to 12 hour period would thus have a no significant impact on the life of the drive On the other hand it would allow manufacturing faults and intermittent faults to be detected in a controlled manner when the consequences of failure are minimal Q How long should run BurninTest for Not an easy question In our opinion the chances or finding a problem in the first hour are relatively high the system gets hot it s the first run across the disk CD and the first use of some of the drivers Then every hour after that the chance of finding a hardware problem drops significantly The extra benefit of doing 12 hours compared to 6 hours is thus probably not gr
46. here EXECUTE COMMAND Overview Executes an external file and continues processing the script Syntax EXECUTE lt Filename gt lt Parameters gt Parameters Filename The name of the file to execute The file name must be enclosed in double quotes The file must be an executable Parameters Any command line parameters which you wish to pass to your executable If any of these parameters are filenames you should enclose them in double quotes Examples Start up Notepad with some results before starting tests EXECUTE c windows system32 notepad exe RUN CONFIG c MyResults Results txt EXECUTEWAIT COMMAND Overview Runs an executable file and waits for that process to finish before continuing to process the script Passing configuration information from an external program to BurnIinTest 1999 2012 PassMark Software Test automation and productivity The executable file may produce a file of scripting commands that are to be run by BurnlnTest once the executable file has closed As an example this may be used to set the Machine type serial number test notes etc at the start of a script file The only script commands that will be processed by BurninTest are the SET commands All other commands will be ignored If this file called a Sub Script file is created it must be placed in the same directory as the EXECUTEWAIT executable file must be called bit script input txt and
47. in the fields below are saved for each network card and can be different for each card IPv4 and IPv6 on Vista and later NICs will be displayed in the drop down Note BurninTest and the Endpoints must support IPv4 Test On Off Check this box the enable testing for the selected IP of a network card Test settings Half duplex Full duplex Full duplex will send and receive data during the test Half duplex will only send data during the test Data port Number This is the starting port number that is used when sending data during the test as the testing progresses more then one port may be in use by each network card Unless it conflicts with other 1999 2012 PassMark Software Selecting Test Preferences 91 services in use this should be left at the default value Block Size bytes This value is buffer size used when breaking the file into packets and sending it across the network Target NIC load This is the required load placed on the network card during testing the test will be throttled to maintain the necessary amount of data being sent through the network card For example a load of 15 for a 1000 megabit 1 gigabit network card will be a transfer rate around 17 MB s Note If this setting is high the system may not be able to generate sufficient traffic to meet this load requirement Low NIC threshold A low throughput threshold value can be specified to raise a throughput error when the throu
48. lt parameter gt SSE4A lt parameter gt Parameters GP General Purpose Instructions YES NO FPU Floating Point unit Instructions YES NO PRIME Prime number test YES NO MAX_HEAT YES NO MMX YES NO 38DNOW YES NO SSE YES NO SSE2 YES NO 1999 2012 PassMark Software 156 BurninTest V7 0 SSE3 YES NO SSE4_1 YES NO SSE4 2 YES NO SSE4A YES NO Examples SETCPU GP yes FPU yes PRIME yes MAX_HEAT yes MMX yes 3DNOW yes SSE yes SSE2 yes SETCPU SSE3 yes SSE4_1 yes SSE4 2 yes SSE4A yes SETPRETEST COMMAND Overview Sets the test preferences for Pre Test options Syntax SETPRETEST ACTION lt parameter gt PATH lt parameter gt Parameters ACTION Action before running tests 1 NONE start immediately 2 WARNING display warning messages 3 RUN run external application 4 WAIT run external application and wait PATH External application Specify the application path within double quotes Example SETPRETEST ACTION run PATH c filename exe SETPOSTTEST COMMAND Overview Set the Post Test options The reboot options cannot be scripted Syntax 1999 2012 PassMark Software Test automation and productivity SETPOSTTEST AUTO_STOP_P lt parameter gt MAN_STOP_P lt parameter gt RESULT _P lt parameter gt SYSTEM_BEEP_P lt parameter gt RUN_P lt parameter gt SETPOSTTEST AUTO_STOP_F lt parameter gt MAN_STOP_F lt parameter gt RE
49. or a Windows directory between 99 5 and 100 of the disk will be used A number of test modes perform additional testing to that described above These are described below Random data wth Random seeking consists of 2 repeating steps 1 Writing reading and verifying a test file with random data and 2 Seeking to random locations in the test files and reading or writing data blocks at this location 1 BurninTest generates 7 unique blocks of random data for each disk under test the block size is determined by the User preferences settings e g 16KB BurnlnTest sequentially writes a file using the first block of random data followed by the second third forth fifth sixth and seventh and then the first etc until the file size specified is reached e g 0 1 of the disk size After writing this test file with the random test data the data is read sequentially and verified against the test data written 2 Following the writing and verifying of each file the random seek part of the test starts BurnInTest will select a test file at random 1 n where n is the number of the test file that has already been written to disk It will then select a random block within that test file i e an offset into the file of block number x block size eg 10 16KB 160KB BurnlnTest will seek to this position in the test file and take an action BurninTest at random will either i read and verify a block at this position in the file or ii write
50. player That is to say it is only suitable for use with computer PC CD players The DVD is a DVD ROM and but does not contain video Thus it can not be played on a normal DVD player connected to a television It can only be used on a PC DVD player The BD is a BD ROM and contains only data It cannot be played in a normal Blu ray video disc player connected to a television nor a PS3 It can only be used on a PC Blu ray player None of the above media contains the BurninTest software The software must be downloaded from the PassMark Software web site Parallel loop back plugs Applicable to BurnInTest Pro version only You can purchase high quality molded loop back plugs from oo PassMark or you can make your own You ll find below the instructions for making a parallel port loop back plug These plugs are designed to be plugged into the 25 pin parallel on your MW computer In conjunction with software such as BurninTest they allow the testing of the port Warning This are the pin outs of the plug which we have made and successfully tested wth our own software on our own PC s You use this information at your own risk It s easy to make a mistake and we take no responsibility for the potentially serious consequences The parallel port on IBM compatible PC s have always used a DB 25 connector However over time several changes have taken place to the electrical interface with the introduction of enhanced and bi directional parallel po
51. port is already in use by another program 185 Command file 58 Command files 97 Command line 133 160 Common Problems 172 Config 132 Configuration files 132 133 Configured Parallel port does not exist Connection error 185 Contacting PassMark Copy 20 24 Corrupt Audio input 185 Corrupt header data 185 Corruption Data read didn t match data written Corruption Data received didn t match data sent 185 Corruption Data received didn t match data sent 185 185 205 185 Check plug is connected 185 Could not access the tape drive selected 185 Could not allocate memory for packets 185 Could not allocate RAM for USB I O buffers 185 Could not create a network socket 185 Could not create the sound output object 185 Could not detect specified optical drive 185 Could not detect the parallel port selected 185 Could not detect USB loopback plug 185 Could not determine type of Passmark test CD DVD 185 Could not find CD in Drive 185 Could not find the default printer 185 Could not get extended RAM info W2000 or XP Req 185 Could not get number of audio tracks 185 Could not initialize Video interfaces 185 Could not open file on optical disk for reading Could not open MIDI Sequencer or MIDI file Could not open parallel device driver 185 Could not open printer command file 185 Could not open printer spooler 185 Could not open the default printer 185 185 185 Could not play back MP3 file 185 Could not play ba
52. port selected must not already be in use by Windows for example by the mouse or an active modem for the test to be carried out The speed that the serial port operates at is independent from the modem speeds Even if you have a 56Kbit s modem your serial port may operate at a higher speed The maximum serial port speed 1999 2012 PassMark Software BurninTest V7 0 depends on the type of chip installed on your motherboard Most PC s will only do up to 115Kbit s so don t be alarmed if the test fails at 128Kbit s or above If the detect only option was selected in the preferences window then the loopback test will not be performed The presence of the serial port in the system will still be checked for however The following information is displayed for each port being tested Serial Port This is the Windows name for the serial port being tested The port can be selected from the Test Preferences window Any port between COM1 and COM64 is supported Speed This is speed that the serial port is configured for The speed can be selected from the Test Preferences window To cycle through each speed setting starting from the lowest to the highest select either Cycle to 115K or Cycle to 256K In these cases a test of approximately 30 seconds will be carried out for each of the following speeds in the following order 300 Baud 600 1200 2400 4800 9600 14400 19200 38400 56000 57600 115200
53. shop on price alone check out the support and product reviews General precautions for testing Have a look through the issues in the precautions section of this help file 1999 2012 PassMark Software 12 3 Common test error messages When BurnInTest encounters an error during a test run a short description of the error is displayed in the main window What follows is an explanation of the common errors that may be encountered No errors No errors have been detected Incorrect mathematical addition subtraction division multiply The execution of a mathematical operation came up with the wrong result e g 1 1 3 This is a very serious error for a computer as it means the computer is incapable of execution the same sequence of instructions to get the same result Possible reasons are faulty RAM System bus CPU or overheating There is a strong chance that your computer will crash or lock up just after an error like this because if the computer can t add two numbers correctly there is a good chance that it can t continue to run a program either Incorrect MMX addition subtraction multiplication Incorrect 128bit SIMD SSE floating point addition Incorrect 128bit SIMD SSE floating point multipl Incorrect 64bit 3DNow floating point result Similar to the above mathematical faults except that the error occurred while using the extended CPU instructions Rather than the standard 32bit Maths Failed Windows call
54. should be sent from BurnInTest to an already connected EP and from an EP to BurninTest in order to achieve the required load Errors will be logged in the standard BurninTest log files as specified in Configuration gt Test Preferences gt Logging Notes To ensure compatibility between BurnInTest and the Endpoint software it is important that you use the version of Endpoint exe that is included in the BurninTest distribution you are using In Windows XP and later you need to be the administrator to run this test In Windows Vista and later you will need to run BurnInTest and the Endpoint software with Elevated administrator privileges Run as administrator or turn off UAC User Account Control Turning off UAC will remove all user account control and you should understand the impact of this before doing it and ensure the system is returned to required settings after the test In some cases it is possible that a failing NIC Such as reported send or receive errors can lead to subsequent false positive errors being reported for other NICs When analyzing Advanced Network errors this should be considered and the first error within a period of 1 minute taken to be the problem NIC CheckEnd previously distributed with BurnInTest has been removed and is now obsolete Examples The Advanced network test window for a test of an IPv4 and IPv6 NIC on the BurninTest system to a single Endpoint system on the test network 1
55. supported BurnIinTest will also attempt to use as many temperature sources as possible up to 6 e g 2 x CPU 3 x HDD 1 x GPU Temperature thresholds are set to the value of 90C and are not based on the hardware type Monitoring application BurninTest can monitor CPU HDD and GPU temperatures for certain systems or you can use a 3rd party Temperature Monitoring Application with BurninTest To select the application that monitors temperature select one of the following options e No Monitoring e BurninTest e Intel Active Monitor and Intel Desktop Utilities Hardware Monitor e Hmonitor or e SpeedFan Temperature scale The temperature scale of either Celsius or Fahrenheit should be selected Temperature sources Event thresholds Up to 6 temperature sources may be selected for monitoring depending on the Monitoring application selected Up to 200 temperature sources can be detected by BurnlInTest depending on the system All detected temperature sources will be logged to a file when a periodic logging interval is specified It is possible to raise a temperature event error Temperature threshold exceeded on a user defined temperature threshold being exceeded For each temperature source a maximum temperature value can be specified If the temperature exceeds this value a temperature event will be displayed and logged Stop testing on temperature threshold exceeded Select this option to automatically stop testing on the t
56. system RAM on some systems as video memory running the memory test at the same time can lead to only a small amount of test memory being available for test by the memory test as a large amount of the system RAM can be tested using the 2D video memory test This test is therefore generally not intended to be run simultaneously with the memory test but it can be In each case the test first determines how much of the appropriate memory is free and then fills this memory with a series of test patterns Each test pattern is written to vdeo memory and then displayed in the test window After display the test pattern data is read back from video memory and verified Any errors are reported Note The amount of video memory tested is essentially the amount of Video RAM available to BurninTest It excludes the video RAM used by the primary surface In multi card Graphics systems it may only include the vdeo RAM of 1 card The screen color depth must be set to a minimum of 16 bits The test patterns used are similar to the memory test plus some color specific patterns e White 11111111 e Black 00000000 e Binary 1 10101010 e Binary 2 01010101 e Sequence 1 2 3 e Red e Green e Blue 1 test cycle is defined to be 1 complete pass write read and verify of the test video memory 1999 2012 PassMark Software Test descriptions 39 Notes 1 The 2D Graphics Video memory test is not compatible with the 3D non windowed f
57. testing When PassMark s MonitorTest is used as a BurnlnTest Plugin it tests in a pre defined test sequence MonitorTest shows a series of touch test displays that prompt the user to take certain actions to test the TouchScreen PassMark MonitorTest allows single touch tests and multi touch pan zoom rotate and tap gesture tests Version of Plugin required PassMark MonitorTest V3 1 Build 1000 or higher Test name within BurnInTest displays and reports Monitor Test information displayed in BurnInTest Status text number of operations errors and cycles error text and severity Application field should be set to MonitorTest exe p Where p specifies MonitorTest to run as a plugin e g C Program Files MonitorTest MonitorTest exe p Note any arguments that contain a directory path must be enclosed in quotation marks Run as pre test plugin should be checked Notes 1 You should install MonitorTest before starting 2 You should license MonitorTest so that the Welcome window is not displayed when the BurninTest tests are started Modem testing When PassMark s ModemTest is used as a BurnInTest Plugin it tests in the Local Diagnostics mode This mode requires only a single modem and no telephone line ModemTest requests Identification information from the Modem via a series of AT commands and then if supported by the modem starts a local loop back on the analog side of the modem ModemtTest then sends data packet
58. that BurninTest will wait for the successful completion of a Serial I O operation Port speed The communications speed or the cycling through the different soeeds can be selected Note that most serial ports do not support speeds above 115200bits sec See also See the serial port test for more details Sound Sound test type Select the type of test you wish to carry out Standard Test Wave File MIDI and MP3 Browse to select the files which will be used during the standard test or enter the path to the audio file Leave the filename field blank if you do not want to test a specific sound type eg if you do not want to test Midi and only test Wave and MP3 then set the Midi Filename to be blank ie delete its entry At least one of the sound tests Wave Midi or MP3 must be selected The default is that all 3 test types are included Loopback Test Select the maximum distortion allowable for the loopback test The values available are between 1 and 20 percent 1 represents a low level of distortion For more information see the description of the Sound Test Tape The Tape test is only included in the BurnInTest Pro version only Tape drive Tape drive ID The tape drive ID can be entered into this field Windows normally assigns the name of the tape drive Typical names are TAPEO TAPE1 etc Test options Individual file size Number of files The number of test files and the size of each file can be selected
59. that some drives that claim to support the Disk Self Test DST standard don t in fact fully support the specification Some drives report the percentage progress incorrectly and some drives report their status incorrectly Test window display Graphical progress bars indicate if the test is currently writing or verifying reading information the percentage complete for the particular file and the space remaining on the disk The speed of the hard disk and the duty cycle determine how quickly test files are created Notes 1 When multiple copies of BurninTest are used to test shared or networked drives at the same time care must be taken to avoid file name collision on the drive being tested File name collision will manifest itself as file creation errors As the name of the test files created in the root directory of the disk being tested contains the drive letter collisions can be avoided by assigning different drive letters to the network drive on each machine running BurninTest 2 There are a few issues to aware of when interpreting the results of the disk test These are covered in the precautions section 3 To test Firewire ports using BurnInTest it is recommended that an external hard disk via the Firewire port is used in conjunction with the BurninTest disk test 2 Similarly to test external memory card readers writers or other removable drives it is recommended that the BurninTest disk test is used 1999 2012 PassMa
60. the Volume Controls and Recording Controls have been configured correctly the test is ready to begin BurninTest measures the level of distortion between the output signal and the input signal on a wave by wave basis If the distortion measured exceeds the value set in the Sound Preferences window and an error is logged and the output and input waves are displayed in the Sound Test window Waves that exceed 0 5 of the maximum distortion level are also displayed but no error is logged 6 17 Tape drive testing Applicable to BurninTest Pro version only Tests the tape drive connected to the PC Drives can be connected via the SCSI bus IDE bus or any other method supported by Windows XP and later Note that Windows 2000 and later operating systems no longer supports tape drives that use the floppy disk interface The tape drive to be tested can be selected from the Test Preferences window A blank tape media is required to run this test If the tape is not blank any existing data will be overwritten and permanently lost There are three optional steps that can be included as part of each test cycle See the Test Preferences window for more details 1999 2012 PassMark Software BurninTest V7 0 6 18 Test description The test is carried out by writing a number of files onto the tape rewinding the tape and then verifying the files were correctly written by re reading them from the tape A progress bar shows the percentage co
61. the over clocking enthusiast It reports system information in particular SMBus info and SMART attributes The first 3 valid sensors available are used by BurninTest By default these are typically CPUs the case or hard disks SpeedFan is available from http www almico com speedfan php About Hmonitor Versions tested with BurnInTest 3 1 2 5 4 0 1 2 4 5 2 1 Hmonitor Pro monitors and displays hardware parameters collected by the several sensor chips installed on certain motherboards The program can monitor voltages CPU temperature Motherboard temperature and cooler fans RPMs It is fully customizable with alarms that can be set to go off when the temperature goes too high In addition to this there is a built in thermo control function that kicks in when the CPU is idle Hmonitor can be used under XP Vista Windows7 operating systems on Intel based personal computers If you are using Hmonitor you can select from a range of Hmonitor provided temperature sources such as CPU1 and CPU2 The temperature labels are configurable in Hmonitor Fan speed and Voltage values can also be displayed and logged during testing Hmonitor is currently available at http www hmonitor com PassMark also maintains a Web page that can tell you where to get Hmonitor http www passmark com products temperature htm General comments about using the 3rd party applications In the case of each temperature monitoring application e Check that yo
62. the systems load is too high to process the video frame 1999 2012 PassMark Software BurninTest V7 0 8 2 8 3 Scrolling H EMC Test settings Options to change the scrolling character are included here The Font Character Text and Background can be changed A preview of the seetings is then displayed Test window setup multiple monitor testing The standard 2D Graphics test can be configured to test 2D Graphics across multiple monitors Number of windows Number of test windows that will be started 1 to 4 Window placement Whether the test windows should be placed on the primary monitor or across all monitors Window size Size of the test window 160x100 up to full screen Note The GUI test uses a fixed size Window 3D Graphics The 3D Test preferences are only included in the BurnInTest Pro version only Test window setup multiple monitor testing The 3D test can be configured to test 3D graphics across multiple monitors Number of windows Number of test windows that will be started 1 to 4 Window placement Whether the test windows should be placed on the primary monitor or across all monitors Window size Size of the test window 160x100 up to full screen Full screen resolution When a Window Size of Full screen non windowed the resolution of the 3D test can be selected from the drop down list Maximum refresh rate Monitor refresh rate The refresh rate can be set to be either the max
63. 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 over clocking Interfaces for logging temperature and laptop battery charge levels additional software required Use BurninTest to help with Electromagnetic Compliance Testing EMC to ANSI C63 4 1992 For more information 1999 2012 PassMark Software Introduction and Overview To get started quickly see the Quick start page See Overview of display for information of BurnInTest controls and different views See Test descriptions for information about each test Learn how to interpret the results Have a look at what each menu option does Get the answers to Frequently Asked Questions Find out how to purchase the software 1999 2012 PassMark Software BurninTest V7 0 2 What s new Please see our version history online at http Awww passmark com products bit_history htm 1999 2012 PassMark Software 16 BurninTest V7 0 3 Quick start guide File Edit Configuration Test QuickTests Help i 59 g X AD Current configuration gt H Q System Information Burn In Results E
64. was unable to lock the tape in the drive Some tape drives may not support this option and this art of the test can be turned off in the tape preferences window Tape device is not ready to start test The tape drive is not in a state where it can accept a new command but it should be No media in tape drive The tape drive reported that there is no media in the drive No free memory for write buffer There is not enough free RAM to allocate a write buffer Error while seeking to new position on tape The tape drive reported an error while seeking to a new position on the tape Error while writing to tape 1999 2012 PassMark Software 192 BurninTest V7 0 The tape drive failed to fully write the current data block to the tape Error while writing file mark er between files The tape drive failed to write a file marker A flag to indicate a new file Error while reading data block from tape The tape drive failed to fully read the current data block from the tape Corruption Data read didn t match data written The data read from the tape didn t match the data written to the tape Unable to get set tape drive parameters A request to get set the tape drive capabilities resulted in an error Unable to get set tape media parameters A request to get set the capabilities of the media current in the tape drive resulted in an error Tape is write protected The tape media is write protected and the test cannot continue Tape drive
65. 12 PassMark Software An error occurred while searching for files on a optical data disk This can be the result of a corrupted Error code 1117 or blank optical disk Error code 21 Data read from the optical disk was incorrect A block read from a specialized PassMark Test CD or DVD was incorrect There was at least one byte in the block that was not the value expected In the detailed error log there is additional information that give the number of bytes in error and displays the expected value and the value actual read from the disc It may be that the drive is faulty but you should check that the disc is not scratched dusty or damaged before assuming a hardware fault Could not determine type of PassMark Test CD DVD BurninTest was expecting to find a specialized test CD DVD in the drive selected A specialized test CD DVD has a specific set of files which all have a specific file size These disc are normally purchased from PassMark Software or made using the PassMark CD Maker utility BurninTest was not able to find the correct files or the files appear to have the wrong file size If you don t have a specialized test CD DVD available select one of the other two test options in the preferences window Error loading DirectX dll DirectX version specified in the System Requirements section is not installed correctly Error initializing DirectX Error initializing DirectX device These errors relate to one of the following problems
66. 12 PassMark Software The Parallel port configured does not exist on the current system Check that the Parallel port specified in preferences exists on this system Could not set USB2Test mode The USB test failed as there was insufficient memory for BurnInTest to communicate with the USB 2 0 Loopback plug device driver Unable to get disk Volume extent information BurninTest has been unable to determine the physical disks that are used to form the disk drive volume letter A level 2 trace log may also provide additional information Butterfly seeking test not supported for this disk BurninTest has been unable to determine the physical disk drive geometry from the disk drive device driver like number of cylinders etc required to perform the Butterfly seek test This may be for devices that do not support drive geometry like some USB drives It may also be an access privileges issue This error can be ignored by changing the BITErrorClassification txt file in the BurnInTest directory e g for skipping the Butterfly seek test for non cylinder based disks eg USB drives A level 2 trace log may also provide additional information Unable to open Physical disk drive for seeking The physical disk drive rather than disk volume letter could not be opened for the Disk Butterfly seek test Seek size requested not equal to actual During the seeking part of Disk or CD test the requested seek size did not match the actual seek size A level 2 tr
67. 185 Unable to Erase CD DVD 185 Unable to get disk Volume extent information Unable to get tape drive parameters 185 Unable to get tape media parameters 185 Unable to initialize advanced network test Unable to initialize for CD burning 185 Unable to initialize for CD DVD burning 185 Unable to load DirectDraw functions 185 Unable to load performance counters check admin privileges 185 Unable to obtain video control interface Unable to open CD test data 185 185 185 185 Unable to open Physical disk drive for seeking 185 Unable to open test window 185 Unable to play the video file 185 Unable to select CD recorder for test CD drive 185 Unable to start Windows sockets Bluetooth test can not continue 185 Unable to start winsock advanced network test can not continue 185 1999 2012 PassMark Software Index 217 Unable to unmount volume Device in use close program using device 185 Universal Serial Bus 168 Unknown DirectX error 185 Unrecoverable video playback error 185 Unsupported waveform audio format for input device 185 Unsupported waveform audio format for output device 185 Upgrades 18 UPS 109 URL 88 USB 66 109 168 USB 1 x 66 168 USB 2 0 66 168 USB data packet verify failed USB Device 66 USB device open failed 185 USB device reset failed 185 USB driver reported receive error 185 USB driver reported send error 185 USB loopback plug identified itself incorrectly USB port 66 109 USB spe
68. 4 a instructions Instructions include data extraction functions Data set pairs of 64 bit unsigned integers Notes 1 MMX stand for Multimedia Extensions 2 SSE stand for Streaming SIMD extensions 3 SIMD stands for Single Instruction Multiple Data 4 Tests are only performed if the CPU supports that test For example SSE3 tests will only be performed if the CPU supports SSE3 5 Known and random data sets are used to exercise and verify correct operation 6 The random test data is generated regularly to provide a larger data set as well as ensure that the CPU caches overflow and that this mechanism is tested Prime number This test exercises and verifies correct operation of CPU through the use of a prime number generation algorithm 1999 2012 PassMark Software Test descriptions 43 Maximum heat Based on PassMark Software testing of a set of CPU algorithms for different systems a test has been produced that aims to generate the highest CPU temperature possible by BurninTest This test is aimed at checking that the cooling system is capable of doing its job with the system CPU under extreme load especially when the CPU has been overclocked Notes 1 Some CPU operation tests are only supported in the 32 bit version of BurninTest These are 3DNow MMX Push Pop stack operations Transcendental s and Load constants 2 A normal software application only has access to a single processor group BurnInTest h
69. 55 255 255 255 broadcast address Each EP will respond to this request This provides BurninTest with a list of all available EPs BurninTest will then start a network test for each BurnInTest NIC selected for testing Each of these BurninTest system NICs will be assigned one Endpoint NIC to test with For example with 3 BurninTest NIC s and 3 EP systems NIC1 gt EP1 NIC2 gt EP2 NIC3 gt EP3 If there are more BIT system NICs than EPs then the available EPs will be used for example with 4 BurnInTest NIC s and 2 EP systems NIC1 gt EP1 NIC2 gt EP2 NIC3 gt EP1 NIC4 gt EP2 This allocation will remain the same for the duration of the test A test will be started for each NIC and BurninTest will send a control message to it s designated EP NIC to request it to start testing on receiving a Ready to test response from the EP BurnlnTest will setup test TCP sockets WinSock on the user specified port the test number and start sending test data to the EP If full duplex is configured for that NIC then the EP will also send test data back to it s allocated BurninTest system NIC The test data is pseudo randomly generated at both the BurninTest and EP ends ie the data is not just looped by the EP A checksum will be added to the data to allow BurnInTest and each EP to verify the data integrity if the user has selected this option Both BurninTest and the EP monitor Network load in order to estimate how much data
70. 85 External Plug in reported error 185 1999 2012 PassMark Software Wi e Failed to connect to the Bluetooth device 185 Failed to create texture for 3D test 185 Failed to play back MIDI via sequencer 185 Failed to start a memory test process 185 Failed Windows call Bitmaps 185 Failed Windows call GUI checkboxes 185 Failed Windows call GUI listbox 185 Failed Windows call GUI listvew 185 Failed Windows call GUI progress bar 185 Failed Windows call GUI shake test 185 Failed Windows call GUI sliders 185 Failed Windows call GUI treevew 185 Failed Windows call Line Drawing 185 Failed Windows call Shapes 185 Fan 105 Fan speed 105 FAQ 172 Fault 182 185 File set 52 File size 43 File system not mounted 185 Filemarks 65 Firewire 43 94 Floating point 41 78 Floppy 79 Format 65 FPU operation verification failed 185 Frame could not be displayed and was skipped 185 Frequently Asked Questions 172 Future expansion 185 General instruction operation verification failed 185 GIF 116 Got someone else s packet 185 Graphics test suite 37 38 Hard drive 79 Hardware failure detected 185 Hardware only DirectDraw object creation not possible 185 BurninTest V7 0 Hmonitor 105 HP Printer file pcl 97 HTML 118 121 127 HTML Test Certificate 116 Image format 116 IMAPI v2 not available 185 Incorrect 128bit SIMD SSE floating point addition 185 Incorrect 128bit SIMD SSE floating point multip
71. 9 2012 PassMark Software BurninTest V7 0 monitor and sized with width based on the BurninTest test window size and height such that the aspect ratio is maintained i e so it is not squashed The window be may moved resized or made full screen With BurninTest Professional the user can change this default by increasing the number of test windows from 1 up to 4 The test window sizes can also be changed from 160x100 up to full screen The test windows can be placed automatically on the primary monitor or automatically across all monitors up to 4 When the test windows are of the default size 800x200 with the height adjusted to maintain aspect ratio and placed on the primary monitor they will be arranged below the previously opened test Window as is the case with the other test windows When the test windows are not the default size or are automatically placed across the monitors then the test windows will be centered on each Monitor If there are more test windows that actual monitors then the test windows will be wrapped back to the first then second etc monitor and there will be a slight offset of the test window The title bar will show the native video size Width x Height Bit Error Rate will be logged to the detailed log where available and greater than 0 The number of operations will indicate the number of seconds of Video played A cycle represents each video file that is played e g if Videos 1 2 3 4 1 2 were played thi
72. 999 2012 PassMark Software 52 BurninTest V7 0 6 10 Realtek PCle GBE Family Controller IP 192 168 0 194 10001 Status Testing to 192 168 0 190 Data Sent Received 304 MB OMB Average Throughput 26 50 Mb s Target NIC load 5 Current NIC load 5 Current NIC Speed 50 82 Mb s Errors 0 Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller IP fe80 4c53 5551 e24a 2177 10002 Status Testing to fe80 d15f c2b4 88df 42b2 Data Sent Received 230 MB 0 MB Average Throughput 20 82 Mb s Target NIC load 5 Current NIC load 5 Current NIC Speed 50 82 Mb s Active network connections with BurninT est IPv6 fe80 4c535551 624x2177 1e80 d15t 2b4 684 4262 IPv4 1921680194 192 168 0 190 Data Sent OMB Data Recieved 368 MB Currert Throughput 5 95 MB s el Ca Optical drive test A read test of CD DVD and Blu ray drives write test of CD and DVD drives and a sound card test when used with a music CD This test can be used with many different types of CD DVD Blu ray media including the following types Music CD Data CD ROM Data CD R Data CD RW Specialized test CD see below for details 1999 2012 PassMark Software Test descriptions 53 Data DVD ROM Data DVD R Data DVD RW Data DVD RW Data DVD RAM Specialized test DVD see below for details BD R BD RE The type of disc being used must be suitable for the test mode set in the Optical drive preferences window however If multiple optical drives ar
73. AL COMMAND Syntax SETSERIAL lt Serial Number gt Parameters 1999 2012 PassMark Software 12 BurninTest V7 0 lt Serial Number gt The serial number string Must be enclosed in double quotes Examples Set the serial number SETSERIAL 1234 shdfgdhs GHGHG NOTE SETSERIAL SETMACHINETYPE SETNOTES SETCUSTOMER SETTECHNICIAN commands should be included as the first commands in a script so that the report settings are included in any log file System Information SETTECHNICIAN COMMAND Syntax SETTECHNICIAN lt Technician name gt Parameters lt Technician name gt The technician or testers name Must be enclosed in double quotes Examples Set the technician name SETTECHNICIAN Bill Smith NOTE SETSERIAL SETMACHINETYPE SETNOTES SETCUSTOMER SETTECHNICIAN commands should be included as the first commands in a script so that the report settings are included in any log file System Information SLEEP COMMAND Syntax SLEEP lt Delay period gt Parameters lt Delay period gt An integer that represents the number of milliseconds to pause before continuing with the next command in the script Examples Pause 2 seconds SLEEP 2000 STARTLOGGING COMMAND To set report items like serial number in the report log file a script command STARTLOGGING is used to turn logging on and create a log file start logging The intent of this is to allow any test script reporting items to be confi
74. AM faults will be detected by this test This is especially the case if Windows or the Windows cache is using a large proportion of the available RAM RAM faults may show up as system crashes or disk errors however RAM fault detection is improved by running a RAM pre test available with the Standard memory test See RAM test preferences How the tests work There are 3 steps that the Sequence Binary 1 Binary 2 Zeros and Ones 11111111 tests goes through These are 1 Memory allocation The test will dynamically allocate and release memory depending on how much is currently available The amount that has been allocated and is under test is displayed in the Test Ram field 2 Writing the test data from the low address to the high address 3 Verifying the test data from the low address to the high address The Cell adjacency test aims to find the RAM problem of adjacent memory cells being incorrectly changed when writes occur to a memory cell A known 8 bit data pattern is written to memory from the high address range to the low address range Then starting at the low address and testing towards the high address each byte is checked that it was not altered by an adjacent write in the previous writing of memory and a new 8 bit data pattern is written A final pass is then made starting at the high address and testing towards the low address with each byte is checked that it was not altered by an adjacent write in the previous writing of m
75. B free D Optical drive PASSMARK_DVD UDF E Removable Disk drives Disk drive Model WDC WD5000AADS OOL4B1 ATA Device Size 465 76GB Disk drive Model Corsair VoyagerGT USB Device Size 15 12GB Optical drives D HL DT ST BDDVDRW GGC H20L CD RW DVDRW BD HD DVD ROM Network Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller Speed 1Gb s Port s Communications Port COM1 RS232 Serial Port max Baud rate 115200 Parallel port LPT1 USB Intel R 5 Series 3400 Series Chipset Family USB Universal Host Controller 3B3B Intel R 5 Series 3400 Series Chipset Family USB Universal Host Controller 3B3E Intel R 5 Series 3400 Series Chipset Family USB Universal Host Controller 3B3F Intel R 5 Series 3400 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller 3B3C Intel R 5 Series 3400 Series Chipset Family USB Universal Host Controller 3B36 Intel R 5 Series 3400 Series Chipset Family USB Universal Host Controller 3B37 Intel R 5 Series 3400 Series Chipset Family USB Universal Host Controller 3B38 Intel R 5 Series 3400 Series Chipset Family USB Universal Host Controller 3B39 Microsoft Microsoft 3 Button Mouse with IntelliEye TM Intel R 5 Series 3400 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller 3B34 Corsair Voyager GT SN A804012700016209 KKEKKKKKKKKKKKKKA KEK DETAILED EVENT LOG KKKKKKKKK KKK KKK REE LOG NOTE 2011 05 18 17 06 21 Status PassMark BurnInTest V7 0 Pro 0000 BETA LO
76. BurnInTest V7 0 But you can upgrade Keys from BurninTest Standard edition will not work in BurnInTest Professional edition Keys from BurninTest for Linux will not work in BurninTest for Windows If you purchased BurninTest V6 0 within 6 months of BurninTest V7 0 being released you are entitled to a free upgrade to BurnInTest V7 0 You can request a new key from the BurnlnTest free upgrade page 1999 2012 PassMark Software BurninTest V7 0 12 1 2 12 1 3 12 1 4 Q How many licenses do need if purchase the software You need 1 license per machine that is running the software or has the software installed at the same time Example 1 You have a PC production line that produces 10 machines per day You test each machine during the night So a maximum of 10 machines are running the software at any one time and you re image the machine before shipping 10 Licenses are required Example 2 You are a company that takes delivery of no more than two new machines at a time You want to burn in both machines at the same time 2 licenses are required assuming you uninstall the software before putting the machine into service Example 3 You have 5 staff in the field repairing PC s Each technician carries a copy of BurnInTest with them on a USB drive 5 licenses are required assuming the software is always run from the USB drive Q I ve lost my registration key how can I get it back Mail us at help passmark com telling us th
77. CD or Data CD to run the CD test A CD RW to run the CD burn test A DVD RW or DVD RW to run the DVD burn test A network connection and the TCP IP networking software installed for the Network Tests Pro version only A serial port loop back plug for the serial port test A parallel port loop back plug for the parallel port test A USB port loop back plug for the USB port test PassMark MonitorTest V3 1 1000 or higher for Plugin touch screen testing PassMark ModemfTest V1 3 1010 or higher for Plugin Modem testing PassMark KeyboardTest V2 2 1011 or higher for Plugin Keyboard testing For more information please see the Test descriptions 12 5 Contacting PassMark Software On the Web You can contact PassMark on the web at http www passmark com E Mail For technical support questions suggestions help passmark com For sales amp commercial issues sales passmark com Purchase BurnInTest Online Now See also the Ordering information page For any other issues info passmark com FAQ You may also want to check out the list of Frequently Asked Questions 1999 2012 PassMark Software 208 BurninTest V7 0 13 Legal Ordering information See the information on the Ordering information page for details about the different options available for purchasing a license PassMark Software Pty Ltd PassMark End User Licence Agreement EULA SOFTWARE COVERED BY THIS LICENCE This
78. Day Hour Minute amp second that the disk log file was created Log name prefix Specify Log name prefix if you wish to prefix the standard BurninTest Text or HTML log filenames you can type a prefix string into the Prefix edit box For example if you want to prefix the standard BurninTest log filenames with the text SPECIAL_TEST_ then just enter SPECIAL_TEST_ This prefix to the log file name can use environment variables such as X COMPUTERNAME USERNAME O0S PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE So if for example you wanted to prefix log files with a test run description the computer s name and the users name just enter COMPUTERNA ME _ USERNA ME _ Time stamped files Single file By default time stamped log files are created this is the Time stamped files option A new set of log files will be created when Logging On is switched on any of the logging options Log Directory Detail Level ASCIV HTML Format are changed or when BurninTest is started with Logging switched on The only exception is when BurninTest is automatically stopped with a REBOOT or REBOOTEND scripting command and then the original log files will be re opened and appended to By specifying Single file no date or time stamp is appended to the filename and only a single log file and if specified a single trace file will be created and all results will be logged to this file Single file may be a useful option when the outpu
79. G NOTE 2011 05 18 17 06 22 Status Main Tests started LOG NOTE 2011 05 18 17 06 22 CPU SSE4a test s selected but CPU feature not detected LOG NOTE 2011 05 18 17 07 27 Status Test run stopped KKKKKKKK KKK KKK RESULT SUMMARY KKKKKKK KKK KK KK 1999 2012 PassMark Software 120 BurninTest V7 0 Wed May 18 17 06 21 2011 Wed May 18 17 07 27 2011 000h Olm 06s Temperature Temperature Temperature Temperature Temperature Temperature Test Name 34 0C 34 0C Test Start time Test Stop time Test Duration Min Current Max Min Current Max 37 0C 52 0C 2 Min Current Max 32 0C 50 0C Min Current Max 36 0C 51 0C 4 Min Current Max 32 0C 46 0C WD5000AADS OO0OL4B1 ATA Device CPU 1 average CPU 1 core 1 CPU 1 core CPU 1 core 3 CPU 1 core HDD 0 WDC Cycles CPU 3 Memory RAM 0 2D Graphics 0 Temperature Optical disk D T Sound 0 Disk 23 0 Network 1 1 TEST RUN PASSED Operations 40 559 Billion 4 493 Billion 400 251 Million 1 125 Million 3 150 Billion 9760 KKKKKK KKK KKK KKK KKK KKK KKK KKK KKK KKK KKK KKK KK KK SERIOUS ERROR SUMMARY FOR THE LAST TEST RUN KKEKKK KKK KKK KK KKK KKK KKK KKK KKK KKK KKK KKK KKK KKK 39 arin fs 53 50 34 3C 49 8C 52 3C 0C OC 0C 0C Min Current Max 34 0C Result Errors Last Error PASS 0 No errors PASS 0 No errors PASS 0 No errors PASS 0 No errors PASS 0 No errors PASS 0 No errors PASS 0 No error
80. IN ona E EE A EENE E E A S 69 1999 2012 PassMark Software 6 BurninTest V7 0 Part VII Test selection and duty cycles 72 Part VIII Selecting Test Preferences 76 1 2D Gra PW CS ciccesececcetseccedeats TEIA EEE A TEATRA EATE ATAS 77 CEE a e E A T E A E A A T A A AR 78 So GPU a E E a a E AA 78 A DISK EEE AE E E E E A T A T A A E E T ge dentevee 79 Whati SWARTZ ania a a A Rei a en a 81 5 EO Sore a E E R A E ERE 85 B Logging rea Nar ETa R TE a 85 7 Standard Network Test and BIUCtOOtN ccceeeeceeeeeeeee seen ee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeseeeeeeeseeeeeeeeees 88 8 Advanced NetWork eroinin rnnr eet sat lente cade detect ctecceacencdbcad denuedaceedued cu etevececeendecatdieducaoeadene 90 9 Optical drive Ssi aniier Aan AAA EAAS cate INEASA A EE ARAARA IPERE EAA AAEE TRARA EEOAE TEANS 92 10 Parallel pOr aeaea per TAEA A EEAO A AA OE EEEE S AEAT ERA AA cctlaavecectidds ecedaoceccstnddzceteanvecees 94 VD Pluges AE E A DAA TE 94 12 gt Pro Te Shunan A E E AE EEE NEEE EEEE EN R 97 13 Pinter ea anre tenes cies NA A AN ENEA E ANE EA EAN 97 T4 POSI TC Ste i aa a ade AAAA te eee fake etna est eee eee ee eee 98 159 PRAM E E cect veccecticecececauddcnedscuceccnavedcectcacceceteysdzectsauce ccna vaddectsaccecacavadceetsccceccnavadeecttaccecetesace 100 Setting the Lock Pages in Memory right cscsseeenseeceeseeeesseeeeeeseeeseneseeeseeeneeeseeeseesseeeseaseeeesessenenseesenenaee 102 16 Serial pors iseen eet eset a
81. Internal system information that is non English will be recorded and displayed in the System Information window and reports Windows system and application events that are non English will be recorded and displayed in reports 1999 2012 PassMark Software BurninTest V7 0 11 11 1 Test hardware Testing system components may require additional hardware This includes Sound test Audio loopback cable Disk test eSATA FireWire Optical drive test Optical drive test media Parallel port test Parallel loop back plugs Serial port test Serial loop back plugs USB test USB loop back plugs Audio loop back cable Applicable to BurnInTest Pro version only PassMark audio loopback cables contain two 3 5mm gold plated stereo plugs which connect m the Audio out and microphone in ports of your sound card during sound card loopback testing The following are the cable specifications Dimensions Total length 330mm 0 5mm Plug length 14mm 0 5mm Plug diameter 3 5mm Conductors American wiring gauge 26 10 0 12 x2F 0 43mm diameter Insulation PBC 1 0mm diameter Shielding Spiral shield Bare copper wire 30 0 10 Sheath Material PVC Color Black 1999 2012 PassMark Software Test hardware 165 Audio loopback cables can be purchased from http www passmark com 11 2 eSATA For eSATA port testing PassMark suggest using an External Hard Disk with an eSATA interface and the BurninTest disk tes
82. Inthe event that the computers are leased or borrowed the software must be removed prior to 1999 2012 PassMark Software 210 BurninTest V7 0 the computer being returned to its legal owner NO RENTAL COMMERCIAL HOSTING You many not rent lease or lend the software LIMITATIONS ON REVERSE ENGINEERING DECOMPILATION AND DISASSEMBLY You may not reverse engineer decompile or disassemble the software except and only to the extent that such activity is expressly permitted by applicable law notwithstanding this limitation APPLICABLE LAW This Agreement and any dispute relating to the Software or to this Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the state of New South Wales and the Commonwealth of Australia without regard to any other country or state choice of law rules You agree and consent that jurisdiction and proper venue for all claims actions and proceedings of any kind relating to PassMark or the matters in this Agreement shall be exclusively in courts located in NSW Australia If any part or provision of this Agreement is held to be unenforceable for any purpose including but not limited to public policy grounds then you agree that they remainder of the Agreement shall be fully enforceable as if the unenforced part or provision never existed There are no third party beneficiaries or any promises obligations or representations made by PassMark herein ENTIRE AGREEMENT This Agreement including any addendum or amendme
83. L manual abort will be substituted SERIAL The serial number will be substituted MACHINETYPE The machine type will be substituted NOTES The notes will be substituted Examples Set plug in test application file with full path 1999 2012 PassMark Software 10 BurninTest V7 0 8 15 c temp cleanup bat c temp cleanup exe RESULT SERIAL MACHINETYPE NOTES Set plug in test application file with path relative to BurninTest drive temp cleanup exe Set plug in test application file with path relative to BurnInTest application path cleanup exe Reboot options Selecting this button will open the Passmark Rebooter application to set the reboot configuration This will allow the various reboot options to be changed such as the reboot count down timer and the number of reboot cycles RAM The RAM Test preferences are only included in the BurnInTest Pro version only RAM Test mode and test pattern Standard The standard memory test allocates RAM from the Windows operating system BurnInTest then uses the virtual address range supplied by Windows Having RAM allocated in this way means that Windows can swap these RAM pages out to disk and generally move them around in physical memory As BurninTest accesses each memory page frequently during a test this swapping does not happen very much in practice but it does create a small amount of uncertainty about what is actually being tested The Test pat
84. N commands Accumulate test results is the typical settings for 1999 2012 PassMark Software BurninTest V7 0 8 7 scripting multiple test runs in a single script file Accumulated results will be cleared at the start of each test script and the accumulation occurs across all test runs within that script Test results can also be cleared using the Edit Clear All Results menu item See also Example reports Calling external programs via Auto stop actions Maintaining multiple test configurations Standard Network Test and Bluetooth Network Test configuration The Standard Network Test is available in the Standard and Professional editions of BurninTest The Advanced Network Test is only available in the BurnInTest Professional edition Standard Network Test Advanced Network Test Use these radio buttons to switch between using the Standard and Advanced network tests Standard Network Test enter Pv4 6 host addresses Recommended setup e It is recommended that the system under test be on a controlled test network e The default BurninTest configuration tests to the internal loopback address 127 0 0 1 This is the default simply as the other test modes require configuration for the local test network The All available physical network ports is the recommended Test mode In this case one destination host address should be specified for each network port to be tested The system network ports should all be on the same sub
85. OTES 1 Both options are based on the current test run and not accumulated results 2 The test duration and number of cycles are both used to automatically stop a test run with a logical OR For example if duration is set to 15 minutes and number of cycles is set to 3 The test run will be stopped when the first of either 15 minutes OR 3 cycles is reached If you want to automatically stop a test run based only on duration set the number of cycles to 0 i e Run for the set duration OR forever If you want to automatically stop the test run only based on the number of test cycles set the test duration to 0 i e Run forever OR for the set number of cycles 3 If you need to run each test a single time one after the other i e In series rather than in parallel a script should be created to Set the number of cycles run testi run test2 run test n See SETCYCLES Test Check boxes Each test has an associated check box that can be used to turn the test on or off Your CPU must support the specific CPU instructions sets e g MMX for the check box to be activated Slide bars amp Duty cycle Each test has a slide bar and an associated edit box The slide bar allows the user to determine the duty cycle for each test A low duty cycle means that a delay will be inserted during the execution of the test reducing the load on the system and reducing the number of operations performed during any particular period of time A high
86. Points need to be visible to all the BurnInTest system NICs BurnlnTest will need to run on one system and the remote machines will need to run the EndPoint EP software IPv4 and IPv6 Vista and later can be tested Note BurninTest and the Endpoints must support IPv4 One instance of the BurnInTest Advanced Network test can only be run on a Network That is you can not run 2 or more BurnInTest Advanced Network tests at the same time on the same network Up to 12 NIC s on the BurninTest system may be selected for testing The EP application endpoint exe may be run on up to 12 other systems on the network Only 1 EP can 1999 2012 PassMark Software so BurninTest V7 0 be run per system An EP can not be run on the BurnInTest system To set the Advanced network configuration options select Configuration gt Test Preferences gt the Network tab select Advanced network test and select the Edit options button Please see Advanced Network Test for descriptions of the options available EP End point overview The EP purpose is to detect requests from BurninTest to start network testing and to send receive and verify data from BurninTest EP is a standalone application that is started on a remote machine and will be able to run whether there is an instance of BurnlInTest running or not It will need to be able to access all available NICs of the machine that it is running on The Endpoint exe software f
87. SULT _F lt parameter gt SYSTEM_BEEP_P lt parameter gt RUN_F lt parameter gt Parameters AUTO_STOP_P AUTO_STOP_F auto stop options 1 NORMAL Stop tests 2 PRINT Stop test and print result 3 RUNAPP Run extern app and exit 4 REBOOT Exit and reboot PC MAN_STOP_P MAN_STOP_F Manual stop options 1 NORMAL Stop tests 2 RUNEXTERNAL Display option to run application RESULT_P RESULT_F Always display result window YES NO SYSTEM_BEEP_P SYSTEM_BEEP_F Use System Beep on autostop YES NO RUN_P RUN_F run external application Specify the application path within double quotes Examples SETPOSTTEST AUTO_STOP_P runapp MAN_STOP_P normal RESULT_P no RUN P pass_app exe SETPOSTTEST AUTO_STOP_F runapp MAN_STOP_F normal RESULT_F no RUN_F fail_app exe 10 4 Externally controlling BurninTest Controlling BurninTest from another application Users can run BurninTest from an external controlling application using the BurnInTest command line options This can be useful if BurninTest testing is one of several steps in the system validation process and this process is to be controlled by another application BurninTest can run for a specified duration number of cycles or run a scripted series of tests There is an option with the licensed version of BurnInTest to allow the controlling application to stop the BurninTest testing and BurninTest can be configured to exit at the end of the testing To allow an
88. ace log may also provide additional information Not enough memory for the test The test e g Sound was not able to be run as there was not sufficient memory Unable to load DirectDraw functions Software emulation is not available No hardware support for operation Hardware only DirectDraw object creation not possible DirectDraw problem prevents the test from running Check DirectDraw hardware acceleration is enabled on the test system By default most servers eg all Windows 2003 servers have DirectDraw hardware acceleration disabled DirectDraw hardware acceleration can typically be enabled from Control panel gt Display gt Settings gt Advanced gt Troubleshoot and move the Hardware acceleration slider to the right ie to increase the level of graphics hardware acceleration In some cases you will need to use the Graphics card manufacturers tool to enable Direct3D hardware acceleration Invalid video file specified No test video playback files entered in preferences Unsupported waveform audio format for output device Sound output device unable to be opened Could not create the sound output object Unsupported waveform audio format for input device Sound input device unable to be opened There was an error during the audio test A level 2 trace log may also provide additional information Unable to allocate memory for audio clip buffer The audio test was not able to be run as there was not sufficient memory for the te
89. achine is to be used as a Server then the Network test Tape drive test CPU tests and CD test should also be enabled In general it is better to test those elements that will receive the most usage once the machine is put into active use For example the floppy drive test could be left off or tested at a low duty cycle if the floppy drive is not critical for the machines intended use Optimize the load As all the tests run at the same time in different threads Some care should be taken to ensure that important tests are not starved of the CPU and run too slowly Thus it can be advantages to initially leave the CPU tests off and run with the other tests Then add in the CPU tests but adjust the duty cycle down until the CPU load just hits 100 For example assuming that the CD and disk drive are critical parts of your system run just these tests at 100 duty cycle then note the load on the CPU Then add in the RAM and CPU tests at a lower duty cycle in order to fully load the CPU Note that there is no point trying load up the CPU to more than 100 Adding more load once the CPU is running at 100 doesn t result in any more processing being done The CPUs available processing time is just redistributed and all the running processes run more slowly Experiment As just about everyone has different requirements don t hesitate to experiment with the settings to obtain the best result in your environment Notes Bootable BurninTest
90. across two lines The 1st line will contain some general information about the error and the 2nd line will contain more detail Some error messages may contain internal program variables and thus be fair cryptic These are not always intended to be interpreted by the user can but help us track down faults in our software Configuring Error Classifications Each of the standard errors detected by BurninTest can configured to include a customer specific string and error classification The file B TErrorClassification txt in the software directory contains the error text and classification used by BurninTest The file is formatted as a Comma Separated File with four fields 1 Error number this must not be changed by the customer 2 Error description text this may be changed This must be a sting enclosed by quotes 1999 2012 PassMark Software 32 BurninTest V7 0 3 Error classification this may be changed This must be one of the following text values not in quotes CRITICAL SERIOUS WARNING INFORMATION or NONE 4 Customer comment this is optional and may be changed it is ignored by BurninTest Comment lines may be inserted by using a at the start of the line These lines will be ignored by BurninTest An example is shown below PassMark BurninTest Error message text and classification 0 No errors NONE 1 Incorrect mathematical addition SERIOUS 2 Incorrect mathematical su
91. administrators have the access necessary to create raw sockets Reporting Q Can I add my company logo and company information to the BurninTest test certificate report Yes The test certificate introduced in BurnInTest 5 0 is a HTML document BITCertificateTemplate html It is almost completely customizable such as style your company logo company information and the certification statement The only fixed component of the report is a tag lt BITCERTIFICATE gt that marks where BurninTest will insert the results information You will need an HTML editor to modify the test certificate for your company For example 1 To insert your Company Logo the first item in the lt body gt of the HTML file is a lt table gt containing your company name and logo as a gif file lt p gt Put your company logo here lt p gt lt img src Passmark_logo3 gif gt 1999 2012 PassMark Software You should modify the text in the first line to be your Company name and change the logo gif filename to a file containing your company logo 2 To change your company information you should edit the footer in the HTML file lt div class footer gt Put your company name here lt br gt Suite 10 Level 1 38 Waterloo St Surry Hills 2010 Sydney Australia lt Br gt Phone 61 2 9690 0444 Fax 61 2 9690 0445 lt Br gt E Mail test example com lt Br gt lt div gt Please see the Preparing a Customer Test Certificate index i
92. aim any express or implied warranty of fitness for High Risk Activities LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES PassMark is not responsible for the contents of any third party sites or services any links contained in third party sites or services or any changes or updates to third party sites or services In the case where PassMark is providing those links and access to third party sites and services to you only as a convenience and the inclusion of any link of access does not imply an endorsement by PassMark of the third party site of service ADDITIONAL SOFTWARE This EULA applies to updates supplements add on components or internet based services components of the software that PassMark may provide to you or make available after the date you obtain your initial copy of the software unless they are accompanied by separate terms UPGRADES To use software identified as an upgrade you must first be licensed for the software identified by PassMark as eligible for the upgrade After installing the upgrade you may no longer use the original software that formed the basis of your upgrade eligibility except as part of the upgraded software EXPORT RESTRICTIONS You acknowledge that the software is subject to Australian export jurisdiction You agree to comply with all applicable international and nationals laws that apply to the software including destination restrictions issued by Australia and other governments SOFTWARE TRANSFER You may transfer your
93. allel device driver not initialized 185 Parallel port 56 94 Parallel port test requires 64 bit version of BurnInTest 185 Partition 65 passing a script from an external application 136 1999 2012 PassMark Software PassMark on the Web Pattern 43 59 65 PCL 97 Permission error writing to disk Plugin 94 Plugin error 185 Plug in test 57 Policy 102 Postscript 97 Pre 97 Precautions for accurate testing 180 Preferences 77 78 79 85 88 92 94 97 98 103 104 105 109 110 Pre install environment Pre test 97 Prices 18 Prime number operation verification failed Print 20 24 Print preferences 97 Printer command files Printer test 58 Problems 172 Purging of USB I O data buffers failed Q Quick tests R RAM 59 RAM test 102 RAW network sockets Read disk 43 Reboot 98 160 Rebooter 160 Recoverable Video playback error Registration information 18 Removable drives 43 Removable storage 92 Reporting 118 121 127 Restart 98 160 Result interpretation 29 Rights to lock pages 102 root admin access needed to run this test RS232 167 Run 136 205 185 159 185 58 97 185 20 24 172 185 185 26 BurninTest V7 0 Sx S M A R T 8i Save as image 20 24 116 Save test log 20 24 Script 136 Scripting 136 Scrolling H 47 Security 102 Seek size requested not equal to actual 185 Serial Number Machine 114 Serial Number USB 66 109 Serial port 61 103 167 Serial spe
94. and restart Q get time out errors during the serial port test Q get an error with the parallel port test Error loading parallel port device driver Q For the parallel port test the detailed log file indicates some errors which are not indicated in the main window of the BurnInTest Why Q get the error No permission to open RAW network socket with the Network test Reporting Q Can add my company logo and company information to the BurninTest test certificate report Test Automation Q Is there anyway that BurnInTest can be used in an automated fashion on a production line Q How can setup BurninTest to run from a USB drive or CD DVD BD under Windows Q am not using the 3D test and don t want to install or update DirectX Can skip the DirectX warning message on startup General comments about occasional system crashes 12 1 1 License keys Q My License key does not seem to work Both the User Name and Registration Key must be correctly entered before the software turns itself into the registered version See this online step by step guide for help Keys from V7 0 of BurninTest will work in V7 0 of BurninTest Keys from V6 0 of BurninTest will work in V6 0 of BurninTest Keys from V5 0 of BurninTest will work in V5 1 V5 2 amp V5 3 of BuninTest Keys from the 32bit version of BurninTest will work in the 64bit edition of BurninTest Keys from BurninTest V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 amp V6 0 will not work in
95. ap file Don t run all the BurninTest tests at once when looking for a fault Run just the 2D graphics then run just the 3D graphics then just the disk etc This will allow the problem to be isolated to one area lf BurninTest is reporting strange errors try turning the 3D test off Bad DirectX 3D video drivers can cause a lot of strange problems Know that faulty RAM can show up in many different ways eg Disk I O error or a system crash Boot Windows up in Safe Mode and see if the system is more stable If you Suspect faulty hardware to be the source of the problem and you know what you re doing pull out all the optional hardware e g LAN cards I O cards and see if the system is more stable Once again if you know what you re doing start swapping out components of the system to see if the fault can be localized Obviously you ll need some spare hardware to do this Have a look through the issues in the precautions section of the online help file Check that the power supply that you have is large enough to power all the components installed in your system A power supply typically supplies power at several different voltages e g 3 3V 5V 12V You should check that there is adequate wattage available at each of these voltages PC power supplies are typically in the 250 500 Watt range Avoid power supplies that are 250 watts or less Spikes in the main power supply can cause problems If you suspect that you have d
96. ar A a beece este getectelavencuet secedt eteree aces deteausivres cies exedduds 103 AY SOU NG ccc d cece E cide cacceeacccetazdaectadsaegeceaucadccaceeaetd E E T 104 16 Ta PO na aae FA ES ar ArAnA E An A AEROS NANAS EAA ANATA AE nunaseceuacnestancbastextensveceteeess 104 19 Temperaire oerien aeaa a a i TATA AER A aaa RE 105 20 Battery Monitorning sasien aaaea naana AAE meaa k AeKa an a RAINA Eaa NAAA NEAKEN 109 21 USB ports ee soccccecsttectieeeed cols Sede teeta ecemiceendelieeeedeuce cece cucdanen ctleedde etd ceed coli dee KEN EEEN EErEE 109 22 Video playback irian tence ed eed eeaee TEREN ein KANEA TENAN KEEA cbeced ey eeccuane ctancbeeeees 110 Part IX Test reporting 114 1 Report information Machine identity ccccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeeseeneeeeaees 114 2 Save Window AS IMAGE ecccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeeseeeeeeeseeeaeeeseeeeeeeseeeeeenseeeeeeeneenseeess 116 3 Preparing a Customer Test Certificate ccceeeeseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeeseeeenenseeeeeeeneenseens 116 4 Example TETO Gorea cvnedaccevece codecs dude sdventase cus ceacveveeeudtecededuvdventacsetscdauseveneuuss 118 5 Example HTMU log ies cicctieccccccse fee ct ctevececenctecat decvcdacdadugesuctiveneenvdecet desvecauseseecduetavdeatvestecates 121 6 Example Customer Test Certificate ccccscccceceeeseeeeeeeseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeeseeeeeenseeeseeeseeeeneess 127 7 Example memory module SPD data
97. as been designed to test CPUs across multiple processor groups and hence test more than 64 logical processors For more information on a processor groups see Microsoft s website an extract is included below The 64 bit versions of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 support more than 64 logical processors on a single computer This functionality is not available on 32 bit versions of Windows Systems with more than one physical processor or systems with physical processors that have multiple cores provide the operating system with multiple logical processors A ogical processor is one logical computing engine from the perspective of the operating system application or driver A core is one processor unit w hich can consist of one or more logical processors A physical processor can consist of one or more cores A physical processor is the same as a processor package a socket or a CPU Support for systems that have more than 64 logical processors is based on the concept of a processor group which is a static set of up to 64 logical processors that is treated as a single scheduling entity Processor groups are numbered starting w ith 0 Systems w ith few er than 64 logical processors alw ays have a single group Group 0 6 6 Disk test suite This suite contains a number of tests that exercise the mass storage units hard disk or otherwise connected to the computer This test can be on the File System e g NTFS disk volume C or in the ca
98. ates physical RAM and locks it down to avoid any inference from Windows The memory allocated is effectively removed from the Windows operating system and can never be swapped or moved until unlocked It is still not possible to use all of the installed RAM as Windows still needs to run However this is a much better state of affairs as compared to the standard test There is also a second advantage with the Advanced test It can use in theory up to 64GB of RAM The standard version of Windows2000 supports 4GB of RAM Windows Advanced Server and Windows Data Center Server support 8GB and 64GB respectively The main disadvantage of the Advanced memory test is that you must manually assign an additional administrator right to lock pages in RAM The Test pattern may be selected to be one of the following or to cycle through each pattern in the following order 32 bit test patterns Sequence 0 1 2 255 Binary 1 10101010 Binary 2 01010101 Zeros 00000000 Ones 11111111 Test pattern The test pattern options will vary depending on the type of RAM test selected see above for details Standard test settings Pro version only Also run the Standard test as a pre test An option exists to run a Memory test prior to the main set of tests The advantage of doing this is that the memory can be checked before the other tests are run making it easier to identify memory problems directly rather than possibly indirectly such as faulty memo
99. available for test 1999 2012 PassMark Software 188 BurninTest V7 0 The minimum video memory required for the test usually 100KB could not be allocated Check your display adapter is not carrying out any other resource hungry processes such as games Attempt a reboot and ensure that the most recent version of your video adapter is present Minimum color depth of 16 bits required Your screen mode is set to a color depth of less than 16 bits Set the screen mode to 16 bit or 32 bit color and run the test again Could not find the default printer Could not open the default printer Could not send page to printer Could not open printer spooler Error writing data to spooler These errors relate to one of the following problems There is no printer defined in the Windows setup There is no default printer selected The default printer is not connected to the printer There is no paper ink toner in the printer There was a communications problem to the printer e g The parallel port may not be functioning correctly Could not open printer command file The printer command file specified by the user was not found on the hard disk Check the path name and file name are correct in the preferences window Error verifying data in RAM The data written to memory is not the same as the information read from memory This is a very serious error much like the Incorrect mathematical error above It s highly likely that y
100. back cables are available from http www passmark com Standard Test Three small sound clips are played by in a loop The duration of play back is determined by the duty cycle setting selected by the user A larger duty cycle setting will result in a longer playback period The sound test window displays the amount of time remaining in the playback If the sound clip is shorter than the test period then the sound will be played in a loop until the test period is complete You may select the files that are played during the test in the Sound preferences window The default test files are in the BurninTest installation directory C Program Files BurninTest Testsound mid MIDI file C Program Files BurnInTest Testsound wav Wave file C Program Files BurninTest Testsound mp3 MP3 file While the test is running the user should verify that the sounds produced are clear and without distortion If no sound is heard and BurninTest detects no errors check The mute and volume settings in the Windows mixer volume control window The speakers are plugged into the correct plug on the sound card The speakers volume control is turned up Loopback Test Loopback testing involves connecting the audio out and line in plugs of your computers sound card together with an audio loopback cable More specifically BurninTest uses the first waveform audio capable input port for the audio in This will be the Audio Sound recording Default
101. board in an Bitmap Format bmp The results can then be pasted as a graphical image into other documents that support this format e g Microsoft Word Some applications may not accept a pasted bitmap format image In this case it is better to use the Save Window as Image menu option above to create an image file which can then be imported into another application Copy Text and HTML to Clipboard Copies the currently selected tab on the main window e g System Information or Burn In Results to the clipboard in text and HTML formats The results can then be pasted as text into other documents that support these format e g Notepad text or Microsoft Word HTML Clear All Results Clear the results produced so far resetting all values and log files to zero This is done automatically each time a new test run is started unless the accumulated logging option is set in the preferences window Configuration Test Selection amp Duty Cycles Displays the test setup dialog which allows automatic stopping of tests to be configured a subset of tests to be selected for execution and a duty cycle to be set for each test 1999 2012 PassMark Software 22 BurninTest V7 0 Test Preferences This option allows the user to customize some aspects of the way BurnInTest works See the description of the preferences dialog box for more details Report Information Displays the report information window which allows General report informa
102. btraction SERIOUS 3 Incorrect mathematical division SERIOUS 4 Incorrect mathematical multiply SERIOUS 5 Incorrect MMX addition SERIOUS 6 Incorrect MMX subtraction SERIOUS 7 Incorrect MMX multiplication SERIOUS 8 Failed Window s call Line Draw ing SERIOUS 1999 2012 PassMark Software Understanding the display 33 5 6 Temperature Temperature monitoring Min Current Max CPU 0 average 37 8C 62 5C 63 0C GPU 0 AMD Radeo 47 0C 59 0C 60 0C The Temperature tab displays the temperature of the hardware components configured for temperature monitoring during testing Temperature display The minimum current and maximum temperature of up to 6 hardware components is displayed The temperature scale Celsius or Fahrenheit and the temperature sources are selected in Test Preferences gt Temp Battery See Test preferences Temperature Temperatures are updated during testing after a test is complete the temperatures shown will be for the previous test run A color key shows which hardware is represented by a temperature timeline in the graph below Temperature graph The temperature graph shows each of the temperature sources graphed over time There are 2 lines of the same color shown for each temperature source 1 a thicker line shows the temperature for the hardware selected and 2 a thinner line shows the temperature threshold for that hardware One 1999 2012 PassMark So
103. ce driver and this may be different to the product version number that wraps up multiple device drivers e Disk volumes List of Disk volumes on the system e Disk drives List of physical hard disks serial number and size e Optical drives List of optical drives e Network List of network adapters e Ports List of Serial Parallel PS2 and FireWire ports List of USB Host Controllers and connected USB devices To list all USB Ports it is suggested to plug in a PassMark USB 2 0 Loopback Plug into all free USB ports 1999 2012 PassMark Software Understanding the display 29 5 4 Results Interpreting the results FTES Sa ka Sp a X AD Current configuration v gt H 2 System Information Burn In Results Event Log Temperature Results for PASSMARKI2500K Test configuration file LastUsed bitcfg Status PASS Start time Tue Jul 19 17 49 48 2011 Stop time Tue Jul 19 17 50 07 2011 Duration 000h 00m 19s Test Name Operations Errors Last Error Description 2D Graphics 130 43D Graphics 1923 cpu 12 193 Billion PDisk C 269 Million Memory RAM 1 027 Billion GaNetwork 1 2400 Optical disk D 58 802 Million Sound 330750 E Temperature USB Plug 1 video Playback No errors No errors No errors No errors No errors No errors No errors No errors No errors No errors No errors 8 192 Milion 15 Or roro0oaooo ocerosao E i fe O fea Ba oO fe
104. cept Butterfly seeking and Quick physical drive test a file is created and verified on the disk BurninTest Professional specific For the physical disk test there is no file system e g NTFS to write visible files As such BurnInTest will create virtual files directly to the disk This will destroy any data on the disk The physical drive test in general will be much faster than the formatted drive test and provide better results BurninTest Professional specific end The size of the file is equal to a certain percentage of the disks capacity and all files are created in the root directory of the drives selected The default file size is 1 0 of the disk size For small capacity drives like floppy disks there is a minimum file size of 32KB It is possible to change the default file size percentage from the preferences window Each test file is filled with a coded number sequence a Pattern that is used to verify the correct operation of the disk when the file is verified read Files are created in the free space on the disk until the disk is at least 94 full we ll refer to this as the full level When the disk has reached this limit all the test files are deleted and the test starts again 94 is used on disks that have a swap file or a Windows directory A limit of 94 is used to ensure that some space is kept for use by other applications including the windows swap file On disks that do not have a swap file
105. cifications Verbose logging 29 Video 69 Video Codec not supported or audio only Video format not supported or invalid 185 Video formats supported 69 Video memory 38 77 78 Video memory corruption Video Play 110 Video playback 69 Video Playback is dropping samples Video RAM 38 Video window management problem Visable section 116 Voltage 105 109 Volume 63 W Warning Disk low speed threshold crossed Warning Network low speed threshold crossed 185 185 185 168 185 185 185 185 185 28 BurninTest V7 0 Warning Could not lock parallel port 185 Warning Switching to reference rasteriser 185 Watchdog timeout on USB2 device 185 Wave files 63 Web page 205 Whats new 14 Windows requirements 204 WinPE 159 write disk 43 X x64 204 x86 204 V Your system has suffered an internal error 185 1999 2012 PassMark Software
106. ck wave file 185 Could not play the audio track 185 Could not resolve host name check settings 185 Could not send page to printer 185 Could not set CD Time format 185 Could not set socket timeouts 185 Could not set tape drive parameters Could not set tape media parameters Could not set USB2Test mode 185 Customer Test Certificate 116 Cycle 29 160 De Data CD 52 Data failed to validate checksum error Data packet reception failed 185 Data packet transmission failed 185 Data read from optical disk was incorrect Data Verify failure 185 DB25 166 DB9 167 Debug logging 29 DEBUGMODE 29 Detailed log 30 33 Direct3D hardware accelerator function unavailable 185 DirectX 39 172 185 185 185 185 DirectX Direct3D version required is unavailable 185 Disc 52 Disc Assignment 92 Disk Assignment 79 Disk is full or FAT root file system limit reached 185 Disk test suite 43 Distortion 63 Division 41 Drive 65 79 92 Drive failure 81 Duration 98 Duty Cycle 72 DVD 52 92 E Electromagnetic Compliance Testing 47 Ellipse 2D Graphics test 37 EMC 47 77 78 EMF 116 Error allocating RAM 185 1999 2012 PassMark Software Index 213 Error classifications Error connecting to network 185 Error creating DirectX textures 185 Error getting current COM port configuration Error handling 85 Error initializing DirectDraw Error initializing DirectX 185 Error initializing DirectX device Error loading DirectX
107. current configuration on the PC in the LastUsed bitcfg file If the script contains REBOOT REBOOTEND commands the startup shortcut specifying BurninTest to start BurninTest after reboot should not include the c lt config file gt as in this case the current configuration on the PC should be used for the continuation of a script after reboot T Allows an external application to stop BurninTest testing U Force BurninTest to set logging on at startup Logging will be started with Activity trace 2 logging anda file name of Debug lt _date time gt trace V Increase the error reporting detail for the standard RAM test W Minimize the amount of System Information collected and displayed by BurnInTest This can be useful for test automation as is can take some time to collect this information and slow test startup It could also be used to simply reduce the amount of system information in reports X Skip the DirectX version checks at startup time This can be useful for users that do not want to install the latest version of DirectX and do not want to use the DirectX tests eg 3D tests Y Start BurninTest in Preferences editor mode Using command line arguments There are a number of different way to specify command line arguments and this can depend on what you are trying to achieve The most common options for specifying a command line argument are 1 You can create a shortcut to bit exe and then specify the command line i
108. d for testing e All optical drive letters A Z are displayed in Preferences gt Optical drives and can be configured for testing e Files are not validated for existence Plugin test files sound test files log files video playback files and pre post test files When BurnInTest is run in the Preferences editor mode tests configurations can be created and different configuration files saved as required BurninTest tests may not be run when BurninTest is run in this mode Scripting preferences Many of the test preferences can also be configured using BurnlnTest scripting commands 8 1 2D Graphics The 2D Graphics Test preferences are only included in the BurninTest Pro version only 2D Graphics Test There are three options available for 2D graphics testing in the professional version of the BurninTest Local Video Memory only The user can test the video RAM by writing and reading data to and from the RAM on the video card This option selects to test the local video memory See Video adapter memory testing for more details All Available Video Memory This option selects to test the local video memory and shared video memory Lines and Bitmaps Tests standard two dimensional graphical functions EMC Scrolling Characters Aids in Electromagnetic Compliance EMC testing for monitors Ignore skipped frames Selecting this option will mean that a skipped frame error will be ignored A skipped frame is typically caused when
109. delay of 33minutes between pages A duty cycle of 50 corresponds to a delay of about 16minutes between pages The pages printed should be visually inspected to check if they are complete The cycle count for the printer test corresponds to the number of pages printed The ops count corresponds to the number of characters printed Standard color printer test The standard color test sends pages of color text to the default Windows printer The pages printed by the printer should be a page of solid color text in a fixed point font filling the printable area of the page There should be a small margin usually under 1cm around the block of text The colors are as follows Title Black Repeated blocks of Red RGB 0xFF0000 Red RGB 0x7F0000 Green RGB 0x00FF00 Green RGB 0x007F00 Blue RGB 0x0000FF Blue RGB 0x00007F Printer command file The user can define a printer command file to be used in place of the standard test A printer command file is a file containing a series of printer commands which is used by the printer to carry out certain actions For example a printer command file could contain instructions on how to print an image or page of text Specialized printer command files can also be created by printer manufacturers in order to run their printers through a particular test routine See the Print Preferences section for more details about how to create and select printer command files 6 14 RAM test The Memo
110. den For each graphical operation the Windows return code is checked to verify that the operation was successful The numbers displayed at the top of the window for this test represent how many millions of graphical operations have been performed Each different math s test is run for half a second After all 4 1999 2012 PassMark Software 3 BurninTest V7 0 6 2 tests have been run the cycle count is incremented The duty cycle the CPU speed and the video card speed determine how many operations can be processed during the half second period The codes used at the top of the windows are LI Millions of lines drawn SH Millions of shapes drawn RE Millions of rectangles Bitmaps drawn The total of these three values is displayed in the main window 2D graphics video memory This test directly writes reads and verifies data to the primary display device using the Microsoft DirectDraw interface As such the version of DirectX specified in the System Requirements must be installed on the machine under test You may test e Just the local video memory that is the graphics adapters onboard memory This is the default setting It is suggested that this is run with the memory test to test the System RAM as well The default settings e All available video memory this includes the local video memory and any other video memory such as RAM reserved for graphics As this test can use a significant proportion of
111. device the input device can be changed based on the options available in the Audio Sound recording list Control panel gt Sounds and audio devices gt Audio tab gt Sound recording Default device For example the list of options for the input device may be Realtek HD Audio rear input Realtek HD Front Green Jack Realtek HD Front Pink Jack The test uses a single channel mono 8 bit sound format with telephone quality sample rate 11025Hz The test generates a sin wave sample with a frequency of 300Hz and a duration of 1999 2012 PassMark Software e BurninTest V7 0 approximately 20 seconds This sample is output looped back over an audio loop back cable and the input recorded Once the sample is complete the test then analyzes the waveform for distortion It is possible to set the maximum level of distortion before an error is logged in the Sound preferences window An operation is defined to be an 8 bit sample of a waveform that is looped and is within the user distortion setting A cycle is defined to be playing a waveform sample of approximately 20 seconds recording this sample and analyzing it for distortion Note 1 If you use the Sound Loopback test at the same time as you use the Video Playback test you must use a Video file with no audio component as the audio will impact the distortion ratio of the sound test Note 2 If your sound card is capable of modifying the usage of the line in jack then you shou
112. discs are manufactured by pressing not burning because pressed discs offer a higher level of reflectivity compared to burnt discs Higher reflectivity leads to higher reliability and less read errors How do they work These test discs contain a number of files which completely fill each disc Each file contains a pre determined sequence of binary data This same data sequence has been programmed into BurninTest so that when the disc is read each byte can be checked to see if it is the correct value If an incorrect value is read BurninTest flags this as an error Compatibility e All test discs are region free e All test discs contain no Digital Rights Management DRM e The discs are compatible with all PC BD CD and DVD drives 1999 2012 PassMark Software 166 BurninTest V7 0 11 5 e The discs can be used with both the standard and professional versions of BurnInTest Version 3 0 or above is required for use of the CD and DVD Version 6 0 or above is required for use of the BD e The discs are compatible with all versions of Windows e The CD and DVD discs can also be used with PerformanceTest V4 x or above to perform detailed CD and DVD drive benchmarking Note Blu ray is sometimes incorrectly referred to as Blue ray Disk but Blu ray Disc BD is the correct way to capitalize and spell this format Other notes The CD is a CD ROM and does not contain music data Thus it can not be played on a normal Hi Fi music CD
113. duty cycle corresponds to higher load A value can also be directly entered into the edit box The background color of the edit box will vary from dark red to white to bright green depending on the duty cycle selected Note If required the Duty Cycle may be overridden per disk drive from the Disk Preferences window Buttons The buttons at the bottom of the window allow all tests to be activated or deactivated with a single click The default values can also be restored The settings selected are saved when the OK button is clicked Selecting which tests to run In order to help select which tests to run here are some general guidelines Only select tests that match your hardware The tests you select should correspond to the hardware installed in the PC For example if your computer doesn t have a tape drive installed there is no point having the tape drive test enabled This will only result in a lot of errors being generated Selecting tests for specific testing If you suspect a problem with a particular device e g the RAM leave the other tests turned off and just run this particular test at 100 This will maximize the load on this element Selecting tests for general burn in testing For a general burn in select a variety of different tests The RAM and Disk tests are the most important 1999 2012 PassMark Software BurninTest V7 0 Select the other tests based on how you plan to use the computer For example if the m
114. e 2 If you were testing 2 x Gb NICs BurninTest side with a configured load of 90 then 2 x EPs witha Gb NIC would be suitable 1 x EP would most likely provide lower throughput 3 x or more EP s would provide no value 3 If you were testing 6 x 100Mb NICs BurnInTest side with a configured load of 5 then 2 EPs witha 100Mb NICs would be suitable A single EP would most likely provide lower throughput 3 to 6 would provide greater throughput 7 x or more EP s would provide no value and is not supported a maximum of 6 EP s are supported It should be noted that the system may not be able to achieve the configured load required due to a number of factors including CPU load and network configuration It is suggested that other BurninTest tests e g CPU test are not set such that they push the CPU beyond hard on 90 when running the Advanced Network test To successfully run the test BurninTest uses broadcasts to find all the available EP applications on the network so anything that may block the broadcasts such as a router needs to be taken into account Firewalls could also interfere with the test and may need to be configured to allow BurnInTest and the EP applications to use the network How the test works At the start of testing BurninTest broadcasts a request to the EPs on the local LAN segment The 1999 2012 PassMark Software Test descriptions 51 broadcast will use UDP and be directed at the universal 2
115. e BurninTest tests are started 3 You should set up a Keyboard configuration file and bitmap of your test keyboard before starting Please refer to the KeyboardTest help file 1999 2012 PassMark Software Selecting Test Preferences 97 8 12 Pre Test Action before running tests You may specify the default behavior of BurnInTest before it begins any test cycle None start immediately Immediately starts test s without any warning message or reminders Display warning message default Displays the default warning message reminding the user of some basic precautions such as possible port conflicts and the presence of loopback plugs and cables Note Pre test warnings are not provided for Plugin tests Run external application Run another application prior to starting the test run For instance the user may wish to launch the Windows Performance Monitor to examine the effects of the test on the system An external application can pass a sub script of commands to BurninTest to configure test information such as the system serial number This uses the same mechanism as described by the EXECUTEWAIT scripting commadn This option is not compatible with the Auto run tests option command line parameter R and this option will be skipped in this case To run a Pre Test application when the Auto run option is specified please use the Run external application amp wait for it to exit option Run external application amp
116. e DVD RW or DVD RW media User specified Quick or Full format The quick option erases content type information in typically less than two minutes The Full option additionally erases all user data on the disc however this can take a considerable amount of time over 1 hour and the test cannot be canceled during this stage Burn the PassMark Test DVD data to the DVD A complete read and verify of the data on the DVD And optionally random seek testing see Additional seeking and Seek count below Burn DVD RW requires Windows Vista and later IMAPI v2 patched XP or IMAPI v2 patched 2003 Server See http support microsoft com kb 932716 Note DVD 5 is Single sided single layer A 12cm DVD is 4 7GB actually approx 4 700 000 000 bytes DVD 9 is Single sided dual layer A 12cm DVD is 8 5GB DVD 10 is Double sided single layer A 12cm DVD is 9 4GB DVD 18 is Double sided dual layer on both sides A 12cm DVD is 17 1GB When referring to DVD capacity the industry uses 1GB approximately 10 Bytes Auto Test CD amp Burn DVD This option is only available after Select all optical drives is selected 1999 2012 PassMark Software Test descriptions 55 This option is useful for systems with a DVD burner and one or more other optical drives When selected BurninTest will allow a global set of test parameters to be applied to all of the CD and DVD drives detected on each system at test run time However the T
117. e for your company Customer Name The name of the Customer you are testing the system for Technician s Name The name of the tester Save As Defaults This button will save the contents of these three fields to disk Each time BurninTest starts the fields will automatically be reloaded This can save retyping the same information over and over again 1999 2012 PassMark Software ne BurninTest V7 0 9 2 Save Window as Image Save as image FileName C Program Files BumlnT est Burrir Image Format Options O EMF C Visible section onb GIF O BMP This dialog allows the main window or its contents to be saved as an image file which can then be imported into other application or placed on a Web page Image format One of 3 different graphics file formats can be selected BMP Stores the image in Bitmap format Many applications support Bitmaps but as no compression is used the file size is very large GIF Stores the image in GIF87a format Fewer applications support GIF s and only 256 colors can be used Powerful compression gives small file sizes and it is one of the standard image formats used on the Internet EMF Enhanced Meta file format Saves a scalable vector image that can be resized within other applications File size is very small but only limited support is available in other applications Option Visible section only or Save entire window as it appears on the screen If Visible
118. e installed in your system you can select all or some of them from the Preferences window Up to 26 drives can be selected for simultaneous testing Test modes NO TEST Don t test the drive selected Music CD playback For a music CD the test verifies the operation of the CD ROM and the PC s sound system by repeatedly playing a music CD The number of cycles corresponds to the total number of times the entire CD has been played The number of ops corresponds to the number of bytes read from the CD in order to generate the sound The duty cycle affects the time spent waiting between tracks Choose a band you like and turn the volume up loud Data disk read and verify For optical data disks the disk is scanned with each file being read in turn A 32bit checksum is created for each file as it is read from the disk The disk is then re read and the checksums verified to complete the cycle The best data disks s to use are those which are full and contain a good variety of files Some large ones and some small ones If the CD has more than 10 000 files only the 1st 10 000 will be scanned PassMark Test CD DVD This test method is the most advanced CD ROM test mode and provides a level of in depth testing not available with the other two methods When possible this method should be selected in preference to the other two It allows a complete read and verify of the data on the CD and optionally random seek testing see Additional s
119. e name that was used to register the software your E mail address the name of the product BurnlInTest and roughly the date when the software was purchased We will mail your key back out to you System requirements Q Does BurnInTest run under DOS No There is no version of BurnInTest that runs under DOS While there are some advantages of running tests under DOS there also plenty of disadvantages Not all hardware devices are supported under DOS DOS is not multithreaded and the user interface is poor BurninTest will however run from a floppy disk or CD under Windows see below Install and uninstall Q How do install the software need some help to Unzip the file have just downloaded Most of our software is now distributed in self extracting archives exe files so you don t need to unzip However some download sites prefer the Zip version If you need help to unzip a file see our Unzipping page Q I don t need to do any more tests how do I uninstall BurninTest Use the add remove programs icon in the Windows control panel Q Does BurnInTest V7 0 support the use of BurninTest V6 0 configuration files Yes BurninTest will read a V6 0 configuration file and automatically convert this to a V7 0 configuration file General usage Q The test run stops after 15 minutes why 1999 2012 PassMark Software With the trial version the tests will only run for 15 minutes at a time After the software
120. e result Possible reasons are faulty RAM System bus CPU or overheating There is a strong chance that your computer will crash or lock up just after an error like this because if the computer can t add two numbers correctly there is a good chance that it can t continue to run a program either FPU operation verification failed The execution of a Floating Point Unit instruction operation came up with the wrong result e g 1 1 1 1 3 3 FPU instructions include Floating Point math e g add subtract multiply and divide Transcendentals e g sin cos and Load constants e g load Pi This is a very serious error for a computer as it means the computer is incapable of execution the same sequence of instructions to get the same result Possible reasons are faulty RAM System bus CPU or overheating There is a strong chance that your computer will crash or lock up just after an error like this because if the computer can t add two numbers correctly there is a good chance that it can t continue to run a program either MMX operation verification failed The execution of a MMX instruction operation came up with the wrong result MMX Multimedia Extensions instructions include a sample of moving MMX registers adding subtracting and multiplying MMX data This is a very serious error for a computer as it means the computer is incapable of execution the same sequence of instructions to get the same result Possible reasons are fa
121. e test window sizes can also be changed from 160x100 up to full screen The test windows can be placed automatically on the primary monitor or automatically across all monitors up to 4 When the test windows are of the default size and placed on the primary monitor they will be arranged below the previously opened test Window as is the case with the other test windows When the test windows are not the default size or are automatically placed across the monitors then the test windows will be centered on each Monitor If there are more test windows that actual monitors then the test windows will be wrapped back to the first then second etc monitor and there will be a slight offset of the test window Line Drawing Lines are drawn into window The color is changed every 500 lines to enable the lines to been seen in the test window Painting Bitmaps A bitmap is painted into a window as quickly as possible Outline shapes Two different shapes are drawn into a window An ellipse A square with rounded corners The color is changed every 64 shapes to enable the shapes to be seen in the test window GUI Graphical User Interface Tests the use of common Windows controls including Tree view List View List Box Slider Progress bar Check box Radio button Edit boxes and window movement A fixed size GUI test window is opened for this test During this time the 2D graphics test window that is used for the other 2D tests above is hid
122. e the disk driver head to ensure the disk drive head is moved to the seek position a small read of the Sector size is done at each seek position Also incremental offsets of the sector size are used for the X seek and the return to 0 seek to ensure that the disk drive cache is overflowed and physical disk seeks consistently occur once the disk cache has overflowed 3 Disk drive geometry may be faked or translated by hard disks device drivers and may not be the actual drive geometry 4 The Cylinders track and sector size used are typically logical values provided by the hard disk 5 Up to 8 different physical extents per Volume or Drive letter are supported in the butterfly seeking test 6 As with other disk tests if a physical disk is partitioned into multiple volumes drives and testing is simultaneously carried out on these volumes the nature of the test will change In the case of Butterfly seeking the movement of the physical disk drive head will not reflect butterfly seeking but something between butterfly seeking and random seeking as the seeks for volume 1 go from its logical cylinder 0 to X and the seeks for volume 2 go from its logical cylinder 0 to Y are mixed in time 7 Some disk drive device drivers do not support the supply of disk geometry information that is needed for this test 8 The Raw disk test option does not support the Butterfly seeking test mode and will be skipped Error reporting may be configured
123. eat Other nice technique is temperature cycling All major manufacturers of electronic equipment do this they have large ovens and fridges in which they test equipment The expansion and contraction of components and solder joins brings to light many problems You could do 6 hours On 6 hours Off then 6 hours On to get some limited temperature variation like this NASA and the Army load their equipment on to vibration machines but this may be going too far for home office use 12 1 5 Test setup and information Q have a quad core dual core dual CPU system does BurninTest test all CPUs Yes BurninTest starts test threads for each CPU CPU core and Hyperthreaded CPUs This can be seen from the Windows Task Manager Performance tab Q Are there any recommendations when using the USB2 0 Loopback plugs with BurnInTest Yes V7 0 or higher of the device driver should be used for USB2 0 Loopback Plugs Q Can I test my FireWire ports How Yes For FireWire port testing PassMark suggest using an External Hard Disk with a FireWire interface and the BurninTest disk test Q How can I use BurninTest to test for counterfeit oversize capacity USB drives See this guide on our website for detecting fake USB drives Q BurnInTest does not have a test for my specialized hardware Can add my own test to be run with the other tests Yes If you have specialized hardware that BurninTest does not test you can write your own test and integ
124. ecommended that this test be run with a set number of test cycles rather than a set duration PassMark 650MB or 700MB user specified Test CD data see PassMark Test CD DVD above is created temporarily on the hard disk For the period of the test the following testing is then repeated Erase the CD RW media User specified Quick or Full format The quick option erases content type information in typically less than two minutes The Full option additionally erases all user data on the disc however this can take a considerable amount of time over 1 hour and the test cannot be canceled during this stage Burn the PassMark Test CD data to the CD A complete read and verify of the data on the CD And optionally random seek testing see Additional seeking and Seek count below Burn CD RW requires Windows Vista and later IMAPI v2 patched XP or IMAPI v2 patched 2003 Server See http support microsoft com kb 932716 Burn CD RW requires a CD RW only drive Combo drives with DVD burners are not currently supported in this case test with writable DVD media Burn DVD RW This test method provides testing of a DVD burner through continuously erasing burning verifying then randomly seeking across a DVD RW or DVD RW PassMark DVD 5 DVD 9 DVD 10 or DVD 18 Test CD data see PassMark Test CD DVD above is created temporarily on the hard disk For the period of the test the following testing is then repeated Erase th
125. econds 4000ms 4 seconds is the default value For more information see the description of the Network Test Advanced test options This option is only available in the BurnInTest Pro version When the Advanced Network Test option is selected at the top of the Window the Edit Options button will be available Clicking this button will open the Advanced Network Test Options Window and allow the options for the advanced test to be set For more information see the description of the Advanced Network Test Bluetooth test The Bluetooth test has been grouped with the Network test in terms of Test selection and duty cycle So the Test configuration and duty cycle window Network settings also apply to the Bluetooth test So Network must be selected on Test configuration and duty cycle Window The test system must support Bluetooth and have Bluetooth enabled Active The Bluetooth test options are on the right hand side of the Preferences gt Network window To activate the Bluetooth test select the Active checkbox Remote device name 1999 2012 PassMark Software 9 BurninTest V7 0 8 8 Optionally you can specify the remote device name to connect to the remote Bluetooth device options sometimes allow you to view and change this You might also want to turn off the standard network test The remote Bluetooth device needs to be setup to allow connections For example on a Windows Mobile device this is
126. econds SETDURATION 1 5 SETDUTYCYCLE COMMAND Syntax SETDUTYCYCLE lt Test Name gt lt Duty setting gt Parameters lt Test Name gt See below for a list of all test names lt Duty setting gt Sets the duty cycle for the specified test to the value specified Values must 1999 2012 PassMark Software Test automation and productivity Kun be between 1 and 100 Using this command is the same as changing the duty cycle value from the Test duty cycle window Examples Set the disk test to maximum load SETDUTYCYCLE DISK 100 Set the CPU test to medium load SETDUTYCYCLE DISK 65 SETMACHINETYPE COMMAND Syntax SETMACHINETYPE lt Machine Name gt Parameters lt Machine Name gt The Machine Name Must be enclosed in double quotes Examples Set Machine type SETMACHINETYPE Dell XPS800 NOTE SETSERIAL SETMACHINETYPE SETNOTES SETCUSTOMER SETTECHNICIAN commands should be included as the first commands in a script so that the report settings are included in any log file System Information SETNOTES COMMAND Syntax SETNOTES lt Notes gt Parameters lt Notes gt The Notes Must be enclosed in double quotes Examples Set Notes SETNOTES Test notes defined by the external application NOTE SETSERIAL SETMACHINETYPE SETNOTES SETCUSTOMER SETTECHNICIAN commands should be included as the first commands in a script so that the report settings are included in any log file System Information SETSERI
127. ed Local Security Settings 3 In the left hand section of the window click on the User Rights Assignment folder This folder can be found under the Local Policies folder 1999 2012 PassMark Software Selecting Test Preferences 103 4 Inthe right hand section of the window find the Lock pages in memory policy Then select Action Security from the menu to display the Local security Policy Setting window In Windows XP the menu option is now called Properties instead of Security 5 Use the add button to assign the right to the administrator The Local Policy Setting check box should now be checked Click on OK to close the window In Windows XP this is slightly more complex and you will probably need the Advanced button to search for users to add 6 You now need to log off and log back on or reboot your machine for this new setting to take effect If you check back in the Local Security Policy utility after you login you should now see that the Administrator has Effective rights to lock pages in memory Note1 This function is not available in all operating systems For example it is available in XP Professional but not XP home Note2 Windows XP security can be a complex thing If you have a problem after following this procedure and rebooting set the Lock pages in memory right to Everyone and try again 8 16 Serial ports The Serial p
128. ed as all tests will be stopped at the same time Execute script Runs the tests selected in the specified BurninTest script file bits Quick Tests Quick Tests quick configuration of tests provides a commonly used set of tests that can be run without any pre configuration and user defined test scripts There are up to 3 groups of Quick Tests shown in the menu Group 1 includes the BurninTest pre defined tests These can t be changed by the user Group 2 includes any BurninTest scripts in the bit exe directory e g C Program Files BurninTest These are defined by the user and are available to all user s Group 3 includes any BurninTest scripts in the current default directory e g C Users lt UserName gt Documents PassMark BurninTest where lt UserNames gt is the administrator account that BurninTest is run under These are defined by the user and are specific to the currently logged in user 1999 2012 PassMark Software Understanding the display 23 Maximum CPU temperature Runs a short CPU test to maximize CPU temperature and check CPU cooling This test uses the BurniInTest CPU test that through PassMark testing has been found to generate the greatest amount of CPU heat of any of the BurninTest tests This is useful in determining whether the CPU cooling system such as heat sink CPU bonding and fan are sufficient for the CPU cooling This is particularly useful for overclockers where additional CPU heat is generat
129. ed which can cause system instability This test runs for 10 minutes A HTML log file called CPU_MaxTemp_ lt timestamp gt log is created in the default directory See CPU test CPU coverage Runs a short CPU test to validate many different CPU instructions This test all of the CPU instructions that are tested by BurnInTest This test runs for 10 cycles A HTML log file called CPU_Coverage_ lt timestamp gt log is created in the default directory See CPU test RAM Runs a single pass of the standard RAM test for each test pattern This test runs for 1 cycle A HTML log file called RAM_ lt timestamp gt log is created in the default directory See RAM test Video RAM Runs a single pass of the video RAM test This test runs for 1 cycle A HTML log file called Video_RAM_ lt timestamp gt log is created in the default directory See 2D graphics video memory 3D graphics Runs a short full screen 3D graphics test This test runs for 5 minutes A HTML log file called 3D_ lt timestamp gt log is created in the default directory See 3D Graphics test Local disk scan Runs single pass of the disk test for all local fixed disk volumes Once a disk has been tested it will wait for all other disks to complete the single test pass Once all local disks have been tested once the test will end A HTML log file called Local_Disk__ lt timestamp gt log is created in the default directory See Disk test Removable disk scan Runs single pas
130. ed 103 Set USB loopback DTR failed 185 Set USB loopback RTS failed 185 Setduration 136 Setdutycycle 136 SetLog 136 SetMachineType 136 SetNotes 136 SetPlugin 136 SetSerial 136 Setting USB data characteristics failed 185 Setting USB data rate failed 185 Setting USB flow control failed 185 Setting USB I O timeouts failed 185 SIMD 3DNow 78 Sleep 136 SMART 81 SMART Threshold exceeding condition detected 185 Software emulation is not available 185 Sound 52 104 164 Sound card 63 164 Sound clips 63 Sound input device unable to be opened 185 Sound output device unable to be opened 185 SPD 26 Speaker 63 Specialized CD DVD 52 SpeedFan 105 SSE 78 SSE operation verification failed 185 SSE2 operation verification failed 185 SSE8 operation verification failed 185 SSE4 1 operation verification failed 185 SSE4 2 operation verification failed 185 SSE4a operation verification failed 185 Standard memory test failure Faulty RAM likely 185 Standard RAM test 100 Start test run 20 24 Started 16 Stop test run 20 24 Sub script input files 136 Subtraction 41 Summary 16 Support 205 System Events 29 System information 26 System requirements 204 System unable to allocate memory resource 185 System unable to allocate memory resource for generating random points 185 ae ie Tape 65 104 Tape device is not ready to start test 185 Tape drive 65 104 Tape drive does not support partition formatting 185 Tape dri
131. eee ceeeneed ce ccsbes ceeenanecuenadee sees 164 2 SOSA E E dasa vdsceddccedecenasddaceus cece caagvsdaestcacceceadysdaaetsceveccanveseestsesceeccnsace 165 So FUP WIG atc cis ece ccc aeces coats eee a e stun tees scdevevecdaneevecduetees cduaverstduedves ceutvevecctetevscduavertscueveeneceets 165 4 Optical drive test MOia ccceeececeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeeseeeeneeseeeeeeeseeeeeeeseeeeeeeneeeeneees 165 5 Parallel loop back PlUGS ccceeeseceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeeseeeeeeeseeeeeeeseeeeeeeseeeeeeeseeeenenseeeeeenss 166 6 Serial loop back pluQsicce cccc sc ecccccetcecesecteccveceueecceesteccteceucecweectendteceueesvecatecdieceusessccatendtacenss 167 7 USB loop back plugs 2 2cccccccoecee ceeds eecen fteccetateccdcanceescptcdecyccac deeeeeaddeegdenndececundeze ecanseeqsubads 168 Part XII Support 1 Problems and FAQ E cane cenid E License keys cseeeeeeeeee System requirements Tris taal carb Urn inh Stall cco oso oan ace cence cencentecdteeansesteeccctenycecesucs sets eauesandeuiedeceraer esc sacuecusddenaey sts aipee ea pa pu Eere aa EEANN Rann Ge Neral US ae acraea cease ste aSa ee aa rda Eda aaeoa taaan aaa da Nada dana raoa oa aidaa sees deugucectuadvdecude dadvactecud decvedeuaeetied Test setup and information Problems Guring testigos esiaren adissa a dasane naiveso Ea Ca danaa sit enuededste ca ei Pia adauta FRG eol a ila MS a EE E Test Automation Precautions for thorough and careful testi
132. eeking and Seek count below There is the possibility to create CDs and DVDs especially for use with BurnInTest These specialized CDs and DVDs contain a set of files that have been specifically created to thoroughly check your drive With these CDs and DVDs BurninTest is able to know the layout and exact content for each file on the CD DVD This allows BurninTest to read back each file and test every bit for accuracy PassMark sells these specialized CDs and DVDs but you can also make your own file set using a utility called CD Maker You will still need 3rd party CD or DVD burner software to actually create the disc however CD Maker creates a set of files that can be burned to CD or DVD More information about this tool can be found on the PassMark Software web site http www passmark com products cdmaker htm No media in Drive This test method only attempts to detect the presence of an optical drive No attempt is made to read from the drive This can be a useful option when there are no discs available for testing but a basic check is still required to ensure that the drive was detected and enumerated by Windows This test option is not as thorough as the other options and if possible one of the other options should be used Burn CD RW 1999 2012 PassMark Software s BurninTest V7 0 This test method provides testing of a CD burner through continuously erasing burning verifying then randomly seeking across a CD RW It is r
133. el Online CPU comparison ga Intel R Core TM i5 2500K CPU 3 30GHz intel nse Sandy Bridge uaea Family 6 Model 24 Stepping 7 Revision D2 CORE iS LGA amp 1155 32nm 1 4 Disabled MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE4 1 SSE4 2 DEP PAE Intel64 VMX Turbo AES 3311 6 MHz Turbo 3612 7MHz x33 0 Turbo x36 0 100 0 MHz Min x16 Max non turbo x33 Turbo 4C x34 3C x35 2C x36 1C x37 4 x 32 KB 4 x 32 KB 4 x 256 KB 6 MB 8169MB 6860MB Not populated 4GB DDR3 SDRAM PC3 10600 Corsair CMZ8GX3M241600C9 1 5 Ck 666 7MHz Timings 9 9 9 24 Max freq Not populated ACD MMOD CADAM MCS ANEANN Ready 1999 2012 PassMark Software Understanding the display 27 The System information tab contains a snapshot of key information about the current system at the time BurninTest starts e System summary A brief summary of the system Operating system CPU RAM graphics card local disks and optical drives e General Information about the system manufacturer motherboard and BIOS e CPU CPU type number of CPU s features and cache information Many modern CPU s will also have their Bus multiplier Scalable Bus frequency and Front Side Bus Frequency displayed Information such as the Manufacturer internal code name fabrication size and revision are included when available Note It is recommended that other CPU intensive software not be running when BurninTest starts as this can impact the measurement of t
134. el port settings Parallel port The communications port that will be used by the parallel port test e g LPT1 LPT2 or LPT only ports currently installed will be displayed See the parallel port test for more details Only a single parallel port may be tested at one time Detection and loopback test Port detection only It is possible to select either a Detect and loopback test or a Detect only test The detect and loopback test requires the use of parallel port loop back plug The detect only test does not require a loopback plug When possible use the loopback test as it is a more though test Plugin The Plugin test is only included in the BurnInTest Pro version only You can specify up to 5 external Plugin test applications Specify Plugin Appliction 1 5 Application Specifies the Plugin filename and command line arguments See Available Plugin s below for examples Run as pre test plugin 1999 2012 PassMark Software Selecting Test Preferences 95 Some Plugin tests may require manual user testing for example testing a keyboard You can specify that a plugin be run before the main set of tests such that the Plugin test will run exit on completion of that test and then the main set of tests will be run This option is available for 3 of the 5 Plugins Plugin s available from Passmark PassMark has developed Plugins for touch screen Modem Keyboard and Firewire port testing Touchscreen
135. eld CPUID Family 6 Model 1E Stepping 5 Revision Bl Socket LGA1156 Lithography 45nm Physical CPU s 1 Cores per CPU 4 Hyperthreading Disabled CPU features Clock frequencies T easured CPU speed ultiplier x20 0 Turbo Base Clock 133 3 MHz Muliplier range Min x9 x24 Cache per CPU package Ll Instruction Cache L1 data cache 4 x 32 KB L2 cache 4 x 256 KB L3 cache 8 MB TDP Limit 95 Watts TDC limit 89 Amps Memory Total Physical Memory Available Physical Memory Memory devices DIMM 3 2GB DDR3 SDRAM PC3 8500 Corsair CM3X2G1600C9DHX DSV CLR 53S 3 MHZ DIMM 4 2GB DDR3 SDRAM PC3 8500 Corsair CM3X2G1600C9DHX 4091MB 2665 2 MHz x24 Max non turbo x20 2871MB Timings 7 7 7 20 MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE4 1 SSE4 2 DEP PAE Intel64 VMX SMX Turbo Turbo 0 3198 2MHz Turbes 4 x21 3Ci x21 202 x24 LC 4 x 32 KB Max freq 1999 2012 PassMark Software Test reporting no 1 5V Clk 533 3MHz Timings 7 7 7 20 Max freq Virtual memory C pagefile sys allocated base size 4091MB Graphics ATI Radeon HD 3450 Chip Type ATI display adapter 0x95C5 DAC Type Internal DAC 400MHz Memory 256MB BIOS 113 AAXXXXX XXX Driver provider ATI Technologies Inc Driver version 8 821 0 0 Driver date 1 26 2011 Monitor 1 1920x1200x32 59Hz Primary monitor Disk volumes A Floppy Cs Local drive NTFS 465 76GB total 390 29G
136. emory Standard memory test The standard memory is the normal test for testing memory See the description in the RAM test preferences window for more details 1999 2012 PassMark Software Test descriptions 61 Torture test Memory over allocation amp disk swapping test BurninTest Professional only The torture test is a multi process memory test Multiple processes are started in their own virtual address space and each process allocates and tests a block of RAM This avoids the problem of virtual memory fragmentation which the standard test can experience trying to allocate a single large block of RAM Each process runs asynchronously so writing and reading of various memory blocks will take place at the same time in different processes The other advantage over the standard test is the possibility to over allocate the RAM The standard test attempts to prevent this to avoid disk swapping Over allocation takes place when more RAM is used by the torture test than is currently available in the system This then results in Windows disk swapping memory blocks into a paging file on the disk This continual swapping to and from the disk places a very heaw load on the system The I O activity on the disk will increase dramatically but CPU load can actually decrease as more and more time is spent waiting for the paging activity to complete Depending on the level of over allocation Windows may need to extend the paging file or may even fail
137. emperature threshold being exceeded event This could prevent system shutdown or in extreme cases prevent hardware damage from over temperature e g due to a CPU fan failure Sample every x seconds The frequency that the temperature sources are checked for the temperature values can be configured by specifying the frequency in seconds Additional information about the monitoring applications BurninTest If you are using BurninTest you can select up to 6 temperature sources including certain Intel CPUs AMD CPUs Hard disks and nVIDIA and AMD GPUs BurninTest provides the following temperature sources 1 Intel CPUs Temperature average of CPU cores or a specific core e g e CPU 1 average the average of the CPU core temperature values e g the average temperatures 1999 2012 PassMark Software Selecting Test Preferences 107 of core 1 and core 2 on CPU 1 e CPU 1 core 1 the temperature on core 1 of CPU 1 2 AMD CPUs Temperature average of CPU cores or a specific core e g CPU 1 the CPU 1 package temperature values 3 Hard Disks that support S M A R T e g HDD 0 ST3160827AS Physical hard disk drive number 0 model in brackets 4 Newer nVIDIA GPUs Please ensure you have the latest graphics card device drivers installed 5 Newer AMD GPUs Please ensure you have the latest graphics card device drivers installed Most modern CPUs include a thermal monitoring capability for fan speed threshold triggering and
138. en logging is switched on by default a result summary report will be logged at the end of a test run Change this value if you would like to log interim summary reports during the test every X minutes The main requested use of this option is to help obtain information about the testing status of a system prior to a system crash on an unstable system Note All error events are written in real time so the main use of this option will be if there are few errors occurring Pre test logging options Test results including the detailed error and status log history can either be cleared each time a new test run is started or test results can be accumulated across several test runs Accumulating test results means that the error count cycle count and operations count values are the total values that have been accumulated across all test runs on this machine Accumulation will also occur across scripted reboots sleeps and execute commands Log files may be appended to the existing log file or a new log file created at the start of each test run Three options are available for clearing accumulating test results and creating appending log files These options are e Clear test results and create a new log e Clear test results and append to the existing log e Accumulate test results and append to the existing log When using BurninTest Scripting accumulating test results is useful to accumulate results across multiple tests runs i e multiple RU
139. en testing a large number of systems with varying optical drive letters When selected BurninTest will allow a global set of test parameters to be applied to all of the optical drives detected on each system at test run time When this option is selected an additional Test Mode Auto Test CD amp Burn DVD is available This option is useful for systems with a DVD burner and one or more other optical drives When selected BurninTest will allow a global set of test parameters to be applied to all of the CD and DVD drives detected on each system at test run time However the Test Modes that will be used will be set by BurninTest If a DVD recorder is detected on the system then the first lowest drive letter DVD burner will be allocated a Test mode of Burn DVD All other CD and DVD drives will be allocated the PassMark Test CD DVD Test mode If Select all available drives is selected and the automatic detection of optical drives determines there are no drives then the optical drive test is turned off Edit details for drive To edit the test preferences for an optical drive select the Drive in the Optical Drive Selection List Any changes you make in the Edit details for drive lt drive name gt will be reflected in this list Test mode To specify that an optical drive should be tested select a Test Mode from the drop down list Only those optical drives detected by the Windows operating system as displayed in the dro
140. epresents the number of drive Lower i power on drive power off cycles for the disk Soft Read Lower Uncorrected read errors reported to the operating system Error Rate To the best of our knowledge there are 2 definitions both related to Gaknowa temperature Airflow Temperature and Temperature difference from 100 The definition depends on the vendor and in some cases the drive model In any case if the threshold is exceeded it is temperature related Number of times the heads are loaded off the media Heads can be unloaded without actually powering off Count of load unload cycles into head landing zone position L Informative attribute the raw value of which represents the current temperature in Celsius of the drive i wer ae fo between ECC corrected errors 1999 2012 PassMark Software Selecting Test Preferences 83 Represents the number of reallocation events which have taken place Sometimes multiple sectors are reallocated together this corresponds to lone reallocation event See also Reallocated Sector Count and Current Pending Sector Count oO Represents the number of sectors currently pending reallocation C6 The total number of uncorrectable errors when reading writing a sector Represents the number of CRC error found in the Ultra DMA high speed C7 ICRC Error Lower transfer mode CRC stands for Cyclic Redundancy Check and is data verification algorithm which uses polynomial c
141. error a new status message and the user defined strings 1 amp 2 You may need to check that BIT has read the old values before writing new values See the Interface definition PLUGININTERFACE and the sample source code for details Printer Test assMark BurnInTest V5 0 Pro Printer Test Page QRSTUVUXYZ _ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvuxyz edefghijklmnopqrstuvuxyz eE 012 tuvuxyz e 0123456789 lt gt ABCD tuvuxyz S e 0123456789 lt gt 2G ABCD OPORSTUVUXYZ _ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz edefghijklmnopqrstuvuxyz se 012 This test verifies the correct operation of the printer by either sending a standard page of text ora 1999 2012 PassMark Software Test descriptions 59 sending a command file to the printer Standard test This test verifies the correct operation of the printer The test sends pages of text to the default Windows printer See Start Settings Printers in Windows to define a default printer The pages printed by the printer should be a page of solid text in a fixed point font filling the printable area of the page There should be a small margin usually under 1cm around the block of text The number of pages printed during a period of time depends on the print duty cycle For each duty cycle increment there will be an additional 20second delay between each page This means that a Duty Cycle of 1 corresponds to a
142. ervice profile of the specified remote Bluetooth device If the File transfer service profile is not available the first service profile found will be used e The local and remote Bluetooth devices will need to support the Bluetooth File transfer service profile e On making a connection to the remote Bluetooth device some remote devices require an Authentication Passkey to be entered on the remote device and then on the local device This occurs on the first iteration and this requires user manual interaction to enter a Passkey on both sides Second and subsequent connections do not require the Passkey to be re entered Some devices allow certain service profiles to not require Authentication a Passkey and in this case no user interaction should be required We have been testing both scenarios The later scenario is supported on a HP Windows Mobile Pocket PC we have as the remote Bluetooth device 1999 2012 PassMark Software Test descriptions 41 The test has been designed to test to a mobile Bluetooth device supporting the File transfer service profile e g Pocket PC mobile phone and iPhone It is not for PC to PC testing The Bluetooth test is available on Windows workstations XP SP3 and later Vista and Windows 7 To configure the Bluetooth test please see Test Preferences window 6 5 CPU test The CPU test exercises and verifies a wide range of CPU instructions at user specified loads The user selectable
143. ery Settings gt Uncheck System failure Automatically restart Often the BSOD will provide valuable information about the crash such as the name of the device driver that crashed If this is identified then you can take actions such as updating the device driver that failed or replacing or uninstalling the device hardware that failed Check the Windows System event logs for errors around the time of the failure Testing to narrow down the cause of a problem If a fault occurs and it is not obvious which system component has caused the failure you should try an narrow down the potential causes Examples are Test with another similar system if you have one Reduce the BurninTest test set until you have the minimum test set that provokes the problem Some suggestions for common faults What follows is some hints on how to go about finding the cause of a particular system instability i e The system locks up you get the windows blue screen etc We don t want to try and explain the steps involved in each of these processes they are just points that may warrant future investigation e Check you don t have any viruses e Check the hard drive for errors using the built in Windows error checker Right click on the drive letter in Windows explorer select properties then tools Error checking 1999 2012 PassMark Software 14 BurninTest V7 0 Check that free space is available on the hard disk s for the windows sw
144. es 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 a 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 to the surface intermittent or hidden problems so that after a successfully run the computer can be used with a much higher level of confidence BurninTest tests the CPU using a range of CPU instructions Hard drives CD DVD BD ROMs CD DVD burners Sound cards 2D graphics 3D graphics Video playback Printers Memory Network connection and Bluetooth BurninTest Pro additionally tests Tape drives Serial ports Parallel ports and USB 1 x and 2 0 ports with loop back connectors 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 touch screens Keyboards Dial up Modems and FireWire ports All these tests can be done simultaneously as the application is multithreaded The best
145. est Modes that will be used will be set by BurnInTest If a DVD recorder is detected on the system then the first lowest drive letter DVD burner will be allocated a Test mode of Burn DVD All other CD and DVD drives will be allocated the PassMark Test CD DVD Test mode Additional seeking and Seek count When Additional seeking is selected for PassMark CD DVD s and Burn CD RW only seeking to different positions on the CD DVD or CD RW and verifying the data at this position will occur Seek Count number of times for each cycle of a file read and verify Display Depending on the test the following information is displayed in the test window Progress bar Displays the progress graphically for the longer CD burn phases Phase Data CD and specialized CDs e Starting e Checksum creation e Searching for files e Opening file e Reading Test CD e Verifying checksums e Seeking CD burn e Starting e Creating test data files e Setting active CD burner e Erasing CD RW media e Erasing CD RW media retry e Preparing to Burn CD e Adding staged image data e Burning image to CD e Closing the CD e Finished CD Burn 1999 2012 PassMark Software s BurninTest V7 0 6 11 e Checksum creation e Searching for files e Opening file e Reading Test CD e Verifying checksums e Seeking Files scanned This is the number of files that have been scanned during the current cycle Current file This is the name of the f
146. est V7 0 11 7 Warning This is the pin outs of the plug which we have made and successfully tested wth our own software on our own PC s You use this information at your own risk It s easy to make a mistake and we take no responsibility for the potentially serious consequences The serial port on IBM compatible PC s conform to the RS232 electrical standard and use a male DB 9 connector older PC s may use a DB 25 in which case a converter will be required The DB 9 connector as the following 9 pins DB9 Pin EIA Description Description 1 DCD Data carrier detect 2 RXD Receive data 3 TXD Transmit data 4 DTR Data terminal ready 5 GND Signal ground 6 DSR Data set ready 7 RTS Request to send 8 CTS Clear to send 9 RI Ring Indicator To make the loop back plug the following pins need to be connected together Receive and transmit 2 amp 3 Request to send and Clear to send 7 amp 8 Data carrier detect Data set ready and Data terminal ready 1 6 amp 4 This diagram shows the connections that need to be made It s the rear view of the female DB 9 connector that s required for the plug The red lines and gray dots show the connections that need to be made on the back of the plug Female DB 9 connector Rear view USB loop back plugs Applicable to BurnInTest Pro version only USB 2 0 loopback and benchmarking plug 1999 2012 PassMark Software Test hardware 169 USB 2 Loopback plugs can be used to he
147. external application to signal BurninTest testing to stop BurnInTest must be started with the T command line parameter Once the tests are running the application controlling BurninTest can signal BurnInTest to stop testing by creating a file called BURNINTEST_STOP in the BurninTest 1999 2012 PassMark Software 158 BurninTest V7 0 10 5 program files directory or the lt UserName gt Documents PassMark BurninTest directory where lt UserName gt is the administrator account that BurnInTest is run under The application that creates the stop file must delete this file To configure BurninTest to exit at the end of testing specify Test Preferences gt Post Test Run external application and exit and leave the application field blank Controlling other applications from BurninTest BurninTest can run an external application and wait for it to complete before running tests This can be used for a number of reasons such as changing the test envronment before testing or having an external application provide test information to BurninTest such as the company name tester s name serial number etc See Pre Test preferences to see how an external application can pass a sub script of commands to BurninTest to configure test information such as the system serial number BurninTest can run external applications and wait for it to complete after running tests This can be used for a number of reasons such as resetting the test envi
148. failure Faulty RAM likely There has been a low level software fault during the Advanced memory test This normally occurs due to an attempt to write to faulty RAM Standard memory test failure Faulty RAM likely 1999 2012 PassMark Software 200 BurninTest V7 0 There has been a low level software fault during the standard memory test This normally occurs due to an attempt to write to faulty RAM Failed to start a memory test process This error indicates the memory test or at least part of the test couldn t be started It does not mean there is a memory error There are a number of reasons why the BurninTest memory testing processes memtest exe can t start be started Further information should be shown in the log file e g Unable to start memory test process or Unable to configure interface with memory test process If you are running the Torture test one of the test processes failed to start This is normally due to insufficient system resources and is not specifically a RAM error Check and possibly reduce the Torture test settings in Preferences gt RAM Otherwise check if there is there anything that may be preventing the memtest exe process from running like some type of security software Check you have the latest version of BurninTest Uninstall BurninTest and re install it A test process failed to allocate memory In the Multi Process Torture Test one of the test processes specified failed to alloca
149. formation Note 1 The Total RAM reported is the total available to the Operating system i e the effective total 1999 2012 PassMark Software z BurninTest V7 0 This may be less that the physical memory in the system For example if a system has 4GB of physical memory with a 32 bit operating system then there may only be 3 3GB for example in total RAM available to the Operating System Note 2 If memory bandwidth is available e g Module1 1024MB 667MHz it should be noted that this is the marketed bandwidth This is typically the peak transfer capacity of the memory chips and not the actual clock on the memory chip and not the transfer rate of the memory module For example DDR2 667 has a memory clock speed of 166MHz an I O Bus clock frequency of 333MHz and a peak data transfer of 667 Million data transfers per second This is often referred to as PC2 5300 or PC 5400 as the peak data transfer of the memory module not the individual chips is approximately 5300 or 5400 MB s Note 3 Detailed Memory module SPD data is available in a level 2 activity trace log file This includes information such as the memory module timings An example is shown here e Graphics Graphics cards model type amount of memory BIOS version device driver information provider version and date and monitor information resolution color depth and frequency Note The device driver reported may be the version of the main graphics card devi
150. ftware s BurninTest V7 0 temperature line may obscure other temperature lines The X axis is time and the Y axis temperature Up to the last 1000 temperature samples are stored during a test The time axis is scaled based on the temperature sample duration set in preferences The temperature axis is scaled based on the temperature values and temperature thresholds Example of the CPU maximum heat test temperature on an Intel Core i5 Temperature monitoring Min Current Max CPU 0 average 34 8C 58 5C 59 5 CPU 0 core 0 35 0C 58 0C 59 0C CPU 0 core 1 35 0C 60 0C 61 0C CPU 0 core 2 33 0C 56 0C 57 0C CPU 0 core 3 3 1999 2012 PassMark Software 36 BurninTest V7 0 6 Test descriptions There are many different hardware component tests built into the software Each of these tests contains one or more sub tests designed to exercise different aspects of your computer system These tests can be run concurrently with each test having its own window and using its own CPU thread or as individual tests It is also possible to vary the load mix by increasing or decreasing the duty cycle for a particular test Each test keeps an error counter a cycle counter and an operations counter The significance of each of these counters is detailed with each test The following tests are currently available 2D Graphics tests Video adapter memory testing Tests of standard two
151. ftware Test automation and productivity 145 3D VIDEO PLUGIN Example Load my preferred test configuration LOAD MyConfiguration1 bitcfg Override the test duration for all tests SETDURATION 60 MESSAGE Click on OK to start test run RUN CPU MESSAGE Insert test discs into both the CD and DVD drive RUN CD Load my preferred test configuration for disk testing LOAD MyDiskConfig bitcfg RUN CONFIG 10 3 1 Scripting test preferences This section describes scripting many of the user settings available from the BurnInTest Preferences Windows Notes e All commands are case insensitive They are written in upper case for illustration e Scripting of the 3D tape and Printer preferences are not supported in the current version of BurninTest SETDEFAULTPREFERENCES COMMAND Overview Set the test preferences to the initial installation state Syntax SETDEFAULTPREFERENCES Parameters This command does not require any parameters Example SETDEFAULTPREFERENCES 1999 2012 PassMark Software 1 BurninTest V7 0 SETDISK COMMAND Overview Set the disk test options The first parameter for the command is always disk name except for ALL parameter which tests all drives Syntax SETDISK DISK lt parameter gt MODE lt parameter gt SLOW lt parameter gt FILE lt parameter gt BLOCK lt parameter gt SMART lt parameter gt SEEK lt parameter gt BADSECTOR lt parameter gt THRESHOLD lt parameter gt DUTY
152. ghput falls below the specified level Validate data If this is checked then the data sent during the test will be validated this may slow down the testing due to the CPU overhead of validation Display test endpoints The display endpoints option makes it clear which endpoints are currently available for testing This will display the IPv4 and IPv6 address from each endpoint that is currently available for testing Example The following preferences window shows a local NIC with IPv4 and IPv6 and a remote Endpoint with 2 NICs both supporting IPv4 and IPv6 r a harane Neno Teto nn T en ceil Select network card s to test Display test endpoints Network card IP address EP 0 NIC 0 192 168 0 190 EP 0 NIC 0 fe80 d15f c2b4 88df 42b2 EP 0 NIC 1 169 254 77 89 EP 0 NIC 1 fe80 5d79 7fe4 c09c 4d59 Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller 192 168 0 194 Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller fe80 4c53 5551 e24a 2177 Test settings Half duplex Full duplex Data portnumber 10001 Block size 1000 Bytes Target NIC load 5 Low NIC threshold 0 0 Mb s 0 Not used V Validate data 1999 2012 PassMark Software 2 BurninTest V7 0 8 9 Optical drives These fields allow the user to select the optical drives to be used for the Optical disk test CD DVD and BD Optical Drive Selection Automatically select all optical drives at the start of testin This option is useful wh
153. gured before the log file is created Syntax STARTLOGGING 1999 2012 PassMark Software Test automation and productivity m Parameters None Examples Run an external application to set the report configuration subscript and pass this to BurnIinTest via the bit script input txt file EXECUTEWAIT bitsetup exe Start logging using current settings with the SETXXX commands in the resulting bit script input txt file STARTLOGGING Set first test duration time for 1 minute SETDURATION 1 Run the test RUN CONFIG REBOOT and REBOOTEND COMMAND Note These commands should only be used where multiple reboots within one script are required The commands are designed in such a way that they ONLY make sense in the following context BurninTest must be launched automatically at start up using a shortcut to bit exe in the Start Up directory The shortcut must use the s command line parameter to automatically run the script which contains the REBOOT command So if for example the script file containing the REBOOT command was called Reboot bits then the command line Target of the shortcut would look something like C Program Files BurnInTest bit exe r s Reboot bits These commands require that the Rebooter application is present in the BurnInTest application directory Any reboots occurring as a result of these commands will use the current Rebooter settings BurninTest must have write access to the di
154. has reported that it requires cleaning The tape drive and or the media in the drive are dirty Clean the tape drive before reattempting the test Tape partition is too small for test files The media is too small or the tape drive does not have the capability to fit the requested files on the tape Select fewer files or smaller files or use a bigger tape Could not open MIDI Sequencer or MIDI file The sound test was not able to open the sound card device or the midi sound file on the disk for playback This can be because the test file has been moved or deleted from the disk or because the sound card has not been installed correctly Failed to play back MIDI via sequencer The MIDI sequencer was not able to play back the file This error is normally accompanied with a 2nd error message in the detailed log that gives additional information Could not play back wave file The sound test was not able to open the sound card device or the wave sound file on the disk for playback This can be because the test file has been moved or deleted from the disk or because the sound card has not been installed correctly Audio Input doesn t match Audio Output The data received through the audio line in is in a wave type form but differs from the output waveform by a greater degree than the Max Distortion value set in the Sound test preferences It is not rare for occasional high distortion values to occur on certain sound cards especially if the sys
155. hat has a problem is identified by the test that reports the error More detail can be logged about errors or activity with Level 1 and Level 2 trace files respectively see Test reporting Level 1 activity trace logging mainly outputs additional information regarding error conditions Level 2 trace logging outputs Level 1 content as well as a significant amount of activity reporting that helps with the understanding of what the tests are doing in quite some detail these files are generally very large These reports can be selected to be in text or HTML format however text files are generally easier to analyze Windows logs information for certain system and application events This can include information such as device drivers failing and reloading These events are included in the BurnInTest level 2 trace file so that they can be seen directly in the context of the test that is occurring This can help explain some errors System restart or crash Blue Screen Of Death When a serious error occurs in Windows a device driver or hardware the system can crash Windows can be configured to either restart on a crash or show a diagnostics screen better known as the Blue Screen of Death or BSOD If the system crashes during testing it is suggested that e Windows be configured to show the BSOD rather than automatically restart E g In Windows 7 this can be configured in Control Panel gt System gt Advanced system settings gt Startup and Recov
156. he CPU speed The CPU features shown indicate that the CPU supports the features as outlined in the following list SSE Streaming SIMD Extensions SSE is a SIMD Single Instruction Multiple Data instruction set extension SSE4 1 Instruction set for the Intel Core micro architecture Intel SSE4 consists of 54 SSes2 fons A subset consisting of 47 instructions referred to as SSE4 1 SSE4 2 a second subset consisting of the 7 remaining instructions DEP Data Execution Prevention DEP is a security feature included in Microsoft Windows It is intended to prevent an application from executing code from a non executable memory region PAE Physical Address Extension PAE refers to a feature that allows more than 4 gigabytes GB of physical memory to be used in 32 bit systems given appropriate operating system support Intel64 Intel 64 is Intel s implementation of x86 64 64 bit computing VMX x86 virtualization is a method where guest operating systems run under another host operating system SMX Safer Mode Extensions The CPU supports Intel Trusted Execution Technology Turbo _ Intel Turbo mode is supported Note This section provides a link Online CPU comparison that provides an online comparison of the current CPU type performance with many other CPU types e Memory Total and available RAM RAM modules Memory devices where available RAM module type size speed serial number and manufacturer and Paging file in
157. he Events to the clipboard in a text and HTML format Clear All Results Clear the results produced so far resetting all values to zero Temperature tab Copy Image to Clipboard Copies the Temperature display to the clipboard in an Bitmap Format bmp 1999 2012 PassMark Software BurninTest V7 0 5 3 System Information File Edit Configuration Test Quick Tests Help ka 5p a gt 4 SY Current configuration gt H Q System Information Burm In Results Event Log Temperature System summary 8 0GB RAM AMD Radeon HD 6700 932GB HDD 112GB HDD CD RW DYDRW General System Name Motherboard Model Motherboard Version BIOS Manufacturer BIOS Version BIOS Release Date CPU manufacturer CPU Type Codename CPUID Socket Lithography Physical CPU s Cores per CPU Hyperthreading CPU features Clock frequencies Measured CPU speed Multiplier Base Clock Muliplier range Cache per CPU package L1 Instruction Cache L1 Data Cache L2 Cache L3 Cache Memory Total Physical Memory Available Physical Memory Memory devices Slot 1 Slot 2 Slot 3 Clat 4 Motherboard Manufacturer Motherboard Serial Number Windows 7 Ultimate Edition build 7600 64 bit 1 x Intel R Core TM i5 2500K CPU 3 30GHz PASSMARKI2Z500K ASUSTeK Computer INC P8268 V PRO Rev 1 xx 109822190000539 American Megatrends Inc 0401 04 29 2011 Genuinelnt
158. he Threshold specified Check the threshold value is reasonable for the Network under test Check that the network is not overloaded No IPv4 Endpoints Check endpoint NIC and operating system There are no IPv4 NICs on the currently available Endpoints and there is a IPv4 NIC on the test system specified to be tested As such the specified IPv4 test can t start Ensure there is an IPv4 NIC on an Endpoint or remove the IPv4 NIC specified for testing by BurnInTest No IPv6 Endpoints Check endpoint NIC and operating system There are no IPv6 NICs on the currently available Endpoints and there is a IPv6 NIC on the test system specified to be tested As such the specified IPv6 test can t start Ensure there is an IPv6 NIC on an Endpoint or remove the IPv6 NIC specified for testing by BurnInTest Unable to unmount volume Device in use close program using device The Disk test specifies a physical disk to be tested e g physical disk 1 To test the physical disk BurnInTest needs to be able to unmount all of the volumes drive letters on the disk The unmounting of a disk failed Check whether another application is using the disk volume and close all such applications Error playing video s audio stream CPU usage exceeded During video playback the audio stream within the video file failed to be played as the CPU was overloaded This may occur when a very low spec CPU is used multiple audio streams are played simultaneously or audio
159. he Video test can be configured to test videos across multiple monitors Number of windows Number of test windows that will be started 1 to 4 Window placement Whether the test windows should be placed on the primary monitor or across all monitors Window size Size of the test window 160x100 up to full screen For more information see the description of the Video play Test 1999 2012 PassMark Software ma BurninTest V7 0 9 9 1 Test reporting System information test events test results and temperature can by saved in test reports Reports can be a number of different formats e Text example e HTML example e HTML Customer Test certificate example Any or all of these report types can be selected to be created for a test run Test specific report information can be specified in the Report information Machine identity window This allows a machine type serial number and additional notes to be included in the reports The Customer Test Certificate is meant as a single page summary for distribution to an end customer as such additional information of the customer name and tester can also be specified to be included in this report The Customer Test Certificate report type uses a user configurable HTML template to allow the look and feel of the report to be customized Customer specific information can also be included in the report by editing the HTML template provided in the BurnInTest installati
160. he serial socket and the motherboard a non standard COM port or a problem with the Windows configuration for the COM port A failure of the CTS pin may be caused by the associated RTS pin to which it is looped A failure of the DSR pin may be caused by the associated DTR pin to which it is looped If you have made your own serial port loop back plug check it carefully Parallel device driver not initialized To access the Parallel port BurninTest needs to load a special device driver that allows direct access to the parallel port If this driver DIRECTIO sys can not be found or loaded then this is the error message You need to be logged in as the administrator in order to load this driver In Windows Vista and later you need to be running with elevated administrator privileges or turn Windows UAC off This error may also occur if the file is missing Parallel device driver could not detect port This error usually occurs if the parallel port test attempts to access a parallel port which 1999 2012 PassMark Software doesn t exist such as perhaps LPT3 or LPT4 It can also happen if the BIOS settings for the port are not correct Note that the old bi directional BIOS mode is not supported ECP or EPP mode is required Could not open parallel device driver This error usually occurs if the parallel port test fails to access a parallel port which does exist Warning Could not lock parallel port When the parallel port
161. hecksums Write Error Lower Represents the rate of uncorrected write errors Lower raw values indicate that Count there is a problem with either disk surface or read write heads Soft Read Lower Number of off track errors Error Rate pee of Data Address Mark errors B Run Out Lower Number of ECC errors Cancel Soft ECC Lower Number of errors corrected by software ECC Correction Thermal i Lower Number of thermal asperity errors rate TAR Flying Ep Unknown Height of heads above the disk surface Height F Spin High Lrkoom Anon of high current used to spin up the drive Current Spin Buzz Unknown Number of buzz routines to spin up the drive Offline Seek Performan ce DC isk Shift Lower Distance the disk has shifted relative to the spindle usually due to shock 1999 2012 PassMark Software fet n O D s lt Unknown Drive s seek performance during offline operations 8a BurninTest V7 0 G Sense Lower The number of errors resulting from externally induced shock amp vibration Error Rate Loaded Hours Lower Time spent operating under data load movement of magnetic head armature poe pene of times head changes position ow e Love oir caused by friction in mechanical parts while operating ow Lower p number of load cycles Total time of loading on the magnetic heads actuator time not spent in parking area E3 g The number of times the magnetic armature was retracted
162. here The size of the tape must be large enough to hold the files selected 1999 2012 PassMark Software Selecting Test Preferences 105 Format tape before test The formatting step tries to create a new partition on the tape The size of the partition will depend on the tape drive in use Some tape drives may not support this option as not all media types require this formatting step to be executed before the tape media is used Skip take lockin The locking step attempts to physically lock the tape in the drive so that it can not be manually ejected during the test Some tape drives may not support this option Use filemarks between files File marks are used to separate files on a tape Normally a file mark is a short section of blank tape Different tape drives support file marks that are different in length and content File marks are not required to run this test as BurnInTest knows the exact length of each file written to the tape and thus has no need to be notified when the end of a file is reached If you get file mark errors when running the tape test turn this option off as your tape drive probably doesn t support the type of filemarks used by BurninTest Drive and Media information Drive info This window display information that has been extracted from the tape drive It allows the user to see which features are supported by a particular tape drive This window is really only intended for tape drive experts Media
163. his document the publisher and the author assume no responsibility for errors or omissions or for damages resulting from the use of information contained in this document or from the use of programs and source code that may accompany it In no event shall the publisher and the author be liable for anyloss of profit or any other commercial damage caused or alleged to have been caused directly or indirectly by this document Please send corrections and suggestions to help passmark com Printed May 2012 Contents 5 Table of Contents Part Introduction and Overview 10 Part Il What s new 14 Part Ill Quick start guide 16 Part IV How to purchase BurninTest 18 Part V Understanding the display 20 1 Main Menu Options oi cccc ccccece es ceccccetacade cede cd canna doce cudeceetndadieedecacccars eceeesendeecessiddecetesccceats 20 2 Pop up Menu Options 2 c 20sec inaaianei aiena aAa stat aaria EAOa NANANA AAAA AR a Eaa 24 3 System INFOrmation cceecececeeeee cece cece ee nn niania nann EnA aan a KA aana AmaE N AAEN KEAN ENAKAN 26 4 Results Interpreting the reSults ccccceeeeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeeseeeeeeseeeseeeseeeeeeesees 29 5 Event LOU onia TAE EAE A beet AA ENEA ATA EA 30 G Temperature ranne EEA AAE AnA PAA OSEAS AE AAE Er AnA AA AE AAEE ARAALI AAEE TEANS 33 Part VI Test descriptions 36 1 2D graphics graphics FUNCTIONS 0ccceceeeee seen ee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeeseeeeeeeseeeeeeeseeeeeeeseeeaness
164. hold level 20 00 MB Sec Measured speed 18 29 MB Sec The disk test periodically samples the transfer speed every second 600ms when the duty cycle gt 90 Every sample below the threshold generates a warning The duty cycle for the disk test should be set to 100 when using this feature Using a lower value doesn t make a lot of sense Setting a threshold can be useful in helping to determine if the drive is functioning correctly and the correct device drivers have been loaded Duty cycle override To use the general disk drive Duty cycle for each disk just set the Duty Cycle override value to blank no value otherwise set the required value per disk SMART options Run self test and log SMART errors 1999 2012 PassMark Software Selecting Test Preferences 81 Select this checkbox to have BurnInTest run the Disk Self Test and monitor the disk drives SMART attributes The Disk Self Test is a set of built in routines implemented by the vendor to perform failure diagnostics on the disk Ifa SMART attribute for any of the hard drives being tested exceeds its threshold an error is logged along with the attribute exceeded To learn more about SMART see What is S M A R T Log bad sector increase Select this checkbox to have BurnInTest monitor changes to the disk drive bad sector SMART attribute during the test Bad sector threshold When Log bad sector increase is selected this value specifies the threshold after which Bur
165. ikely to change frequently can be modified in the HTML template A description of the HTML template follows Test certificate HTML template The default location of the HTML test certificate template is the BurnInTest directory It must be named BlTCertificateTemplate html This file may be modified in the BurninTest directory or copied to the User s My Documents PassMark BurnInTest directory and modified in this location Note As BurninTest is run as administrator the default User s account will be that of the administrator account used e g C Users Administrator Documents PassMark BumlInTest BurninTest will first try to use a template from the current My Documents directory and if this is not found it will use the template in the BurninTest directory A sample BlTCertificateTemplate html is provided in the installation package Style The HTML file defines the Styles for the Report in the lt style gt block You can change the style such as font size and colors by modifying the style block Company Logo The first item in the lt body gt of the HTML file is a lt table gt containing your company name and logo as a gif file For example lt p gt Put your company logo here lt p gt lt img src Passmark_logo3 gif gt You should modify the text in the first line to be your Company name and change the logo gif filename to a file containing your company logo BurninTest generated report components BurninTest will aut
166. ile When BurnInTest is run from a removable drive when installation in this way the default directory for the User Files like reports and the configuration file is the BurnInTest directory Rather than the normal default directory of the User s personal directory The command line parameter p required in V5 x in this scenario is now turned on automatically and is no longer required for a USB drive installation Installing BurninTest to a USB drive This installation process can be performed for a USB drive installation any writable drive using the menu option File gt Install BurninTest to a USB drive From the Install BurnInTest to a USB drive Window you need to specify 1 The USB drive and directory you want to install BurninTest to For example F BurnInTest BurninTest will create the directory if it does not exist 2 The type of installation If you have a license key then select Licensed otherwise select Evaluation for a trial period 1999 2012 PassMark Software 10 BurninTest V7 0 12 1 9 3 If you selected a Licensed installation type then enter the Username Key When you select install BurnInTest will create the directory on the USB drive e g F BurninTest copy all of the files from the BurnlnTest directory e g C Program Files BurnInTest to the USB drive e g F BurninTest and install the license information onto the USB drive Installing BurninTest to an optical disk To install B
167. ile is included in the BurninTest installation directory and should be copied to the remote PC s and run from these systems For example they should be copied from the BurninTest directory on the main PC C Program Files BurnInTest Endpoint exe to each remote PC to a directory C Program Files BurnInTest Endpoint Endpoint exe An EP can be run by double clicking on the application file To use the advanced network test there must be at least 1 EP running on another system up to 1 EP running on each of 6 systems on the network The higher the configured load required and the larger the number of NIC s under test on the BurninTest system the more Endpoints you should use It is recommended that the EP NIC s be the same or higher speed as the fastest BurninTest system NIC ie it is probably not a good test if the EP NIC is 10Mb s and the BurninTest system NIC is 100Mb s or 1Gb s Only the first EP NIC will be used for testing hence it is suggested that the slowest NIC s are disconnected leaving a single NIC the fastest connected on the EP system As a guide it is suggested that with low load required up to a maximum of 3 NICs can be tested per EP With high load required up to a maximum of 1 NIC can be tested per EP For example 1 If you were testing 2 x Gb NICs BurninTest side with a configured load of 5 then 1 x EP with a Gb NIC would be suitable 2 x EPs could be used 3 x or more EP s would provide no valu
168. ile that is currently being scanned If this is in the seek phase this will display the file and block within the file that the drive has seeked to Bytes read This is the total number of bytes read from the CD CD burn This is the total number of bytes written or read from the CD depending on the phase Throughput Current and Average This is read speed from the CD in Megabytes per second and a conversion to standard CD Drive speed e g 4x It should be noted that this measurement includes the seek and rotational latency time so that the speed reported will always be lower than the maximum drive speed This is especially the case for a CD with many small files Also most drive manufacturers quote the maximum speed for their drives the actual transfer rate is usually significantly lower than the quoted maximum E g It is not unusual for a 32x speed drive to only reach a speed of 2MB Sec 13x CD burn This is the write or read speed depending on the phase Errors Data CD and specialized CDs The number of errors detected See Common Errors for a description of the errors that may be encountered Parallel port test Applicable to BurninTest Pro version only Tests the parallel communications port connected to the PC The parallel port to be tested can be selected from the Test Preferences window A parallel port loop back plug is required to run this test These can be purchased from the PassMark web site www passmark c
169. ill not exit Always display result Window By default this option is unchecked and the result window indicating PASS FAIL is only displayed after the Auto Stop Stop Tests option The user may specify to display this result window for the other options i e manually stopped tests and running an external application If this option is checked the result window will be displayed after any external application is run and before exiting BurninTest Use System Beep on auto stop When selected the system beep will occur when a test is automatically stopped This is to alert a nearby user that the test is completed External Application This specifies the application to be run if the appropriate option above is selected Syntax lt Filename gt lt Parameter List gt Parameters lt Filename gt The name of the executable file The file name must be enclosed in double quotes The file must be a batch or executable and the bat or exe must be included lt Parameter List gt An optional list an parameters to be passed to the application Each fixed parameter must be enclosed in quotations A number of variable parameters are supported These parameters will be substituted with fixed strings enclosed in double quotes These are RESULT PASS or FAIL will be substituted if the test is stopped automatically If the test is manually stopped by the user PASS manual abort or FAI
170. imum the graphics card can achieve or to be the same as the Monitor setting CPU Select CPU test types Using the check boxes it is possible to select which CPU test sub categories will be performed and which ones will be skipped See the CPU test for more details 1999 2012 PassMark Software 8 4 Selecting Test Preferences 79 CPU affinity lock testing to a single CPU The CPU affinity setting is included in the BurnInTest Pro version only Normal task scheduling or CPU targeted testing can be selected here Normal task scheduling will result in threads being dynamically scheduled on the CPU with the least load In this way the load is spread between all available CPU s CPU targeted testing schedules all the threads onto a particular CPU Note that CPU selection is only possible if more than one CPU is installed and or the CPU has more than one core Administrator access rights are required Even if CPU targeted testing is used some load can spill onto other CPU s This is because system processes will still be allocated to other CPU s Disk These fields and buttons allow the user to select the drives used in the disk test This includes tests for hard disks solid state drives flash drives floppy disk drives and other types of drives Disk selection Automatically select all hard drives at the start of testing If you would like to test all fixed disks hard disks over multiple systems that have different dr
171. in Start gt Settings Connections tab Bluetooth icon Select Turn On On the Accessibility tab ensure Allow other devices to connect All devices is selected and Other devices can discover me On the Services tab select File Transfer and ensure Enable service in selected If you don t want to test the authentication process this involves entering a PassKey on the remote device on connection and then on the test system you can de select Authentication Passkey required if available It is also recommended that the remote devices power savings settings are turned off so that it does not turn off during testing These options will vary depending on your remote Bluetooth device Notes the Windows Bluetooth dialogs must be closed during the testing The Bluetooth device needs to be in range Display devices To assist users in determining the names of remote Bluetooth devices a Display devices button is available This will show all remote Bluetooth devices that are paired or are in range that can be used for the Bluetooth test You can then enter one of these device names into the Remote device name edit box See the Bluetooth test description for more details Advanced Network Applicable to BurninTest Pro version only Select network card s to test Network card IP address This list will show up to 20 IP addresses of network cards that are installed on the system and plugged in The values
172. info This window display information that has been extracted from the tape drive and its current media It allows the user to see some information about the media currently in the drive This window is really only intended for tape drive experts 8 19 Temperature Temperature Monitoring It is possible to monitor graph and log the temperature of some hardware components while running BurninTest tests Temperature values are displayed and graphed on the Temperature tab and included in BurninTest reports Temperature values will also be stored in the log files at periodic intervals if a periodic logging interval is specified When using the 3rd party HMonitor software Fan speed and Voltage values can also be displayed and logged during testing Automatically select temperature sources When this option is selected BurnInTest will be selected as teh temperature source and up to 6 temperature sources will be automatically at the start of each test run This allows for portability of configuration files across systems with different temperature sources as well as reduced configuration time BurninTest will determine the number of CPU Hard disk and GPU temperature sources supported i e sources per temperature type at the start of a test run BurninTest will attempt to select at least one temperature source from each type of temperature source e g at least 1 CPU 1 HDD and 1 GPU 1999 2012 PassMark Software 106 BurninTest V7 0
173. ion except Internal Loopback destination network addresses for the tests can be entered Up to 12 network addresses can be entered for the simultaneous testing of the network ports to 12 different destinations Enter one destination address for each network port to be tested Each address must be a URL or an IP address A URL is the name of a network host e g www hostname com An IP address is a sequence of 4 numbers that correspond to a network host IPv4 and IPv6 on Vista and later can be tested e g 169 192 0 1 or fe80 5d79 7fe4 c09c 4d59 The host selected must be accessible from the computer and capable of responding to the ping command See the Network Test for more details PassMark recommends the selection of a local host to minimize data link problems which are fairly common on the Internet Bad packet generates error Bad packet ratio generates error Ratio Error handling There are two options for handling errors that occur during the execution of the network test BurnInTest can either log an error for every bad or missing packet or can be set to only log an error when the number of errors exceed a threshold ratio set by the user This threshold ratio is expressed as the percentage of bad packets compared to the overall number of packets attempted to be sent Timeout This value determines how long BurninTest will wait for a data packet to be sent or received before an error is reported The value is measured in Millis
174. irectory External Plug in reported error The Plugin reported an error but did not specify an error message If possible it may be useful to change your Plugin test to define specific error messages External Plug in file does not exist BurninTest has not been able to find the Plugin test file specified in preferences Check the path and file names Unable to communicate wth the External Plug in BurninTest has been unable to communicate with the plugin in order to start the Plugin test Check the command line parameters and the Plugin software code to ensure the BurninTest interface is properly handles as per the sample applications on the PassMark website Data failed to validate checksum error Test data packet payload sent or received during the Advanced network test was corrupt Unable to initialize advanced network test General Advanced network test startup error A level 2 trace log may provide additional information Corrupt header data The header of an Advanced network received test packet is corrupt wrong values or size Unable to start winsock advanced network test can not continue Unable to start Windows sockets which is required for the Network tests Version 2 2 or higher of Winsock is required 1999 2012 PassMark Software COM port detected a Receive Overrun Error A COM port hardware input buffer has overflowed It is often related to load on the COM port and the CPUs ability to service the COM port
175. ironmental conditions e g excessive heat Faults might only manifest themselves in an unusual or specific set of circumstances out of these which are tested Not all modes of operation for all possible hardware devices are tested Faults might only appear with certain combinations or versions of software device drivers e Burnintest is not fault tolerant and is not designed or intended for use or resale as on line control equipment in hazardous environments requiring fail safe performance such as in the operation of nuclear facilities aircraft navigation or communication systems air traffic control direct life support machines or weapons systems in which failure of Burnintest could lead directly to death personal injury or severe physical or environmental damage High Risk Activities PassMark and its suppliers specifically disclaim any express or implied warranty of fitness for High Risk Activities 1999 2012 PassMark Software 182 BurninTest V7 0 12 1 10 General comments about occasional system crashes 12 2 Problems can occur if your computer runs out of system resources because there is some process or driver that doesn t release memory handles semaphores etc back to the operating system After a long period of uptime Windows runs out of resources and dies a terrible death What can you do about this Identify the offending software if you can and disable it This can even be a bug in the Operating sy
176. irty mains power consider getting a power conditioner UPS surge protector Check that internal cards and cables are not loose and don t have dirty contacts Ensure that your computer is operating at a reasonable temperature Check that fans are operating correctly and heat sinks are making good contact A Pentium Ill without it s heat sink and fan will quickly reach over 100 degrees Celsius With a heat sink and fan the temperature is maintained at a more reasonable 45 degrees Celsius If you re really stuck you may want to try a reinstallation of Windows on a reformatted disk Think carefully about this option before you attempt it there are lots of good reasons why you don t want to reformat your hard disk Make sure you have got the most up to date software drivers for your hardware Drivers are a never ending source of problems Check that you haven t ended up with an overclocked CPU and don t know about it Check that your BIOS settings are correct Note down the original settings before you change anything however You might also want to check that you have the latest BIOS that is available from your motherboard manufacturer Check that you haven t purchased the cheapest and nastiest hardware in the hope of saving a couple of dollars or pounds francs etc Often it may not be the cheap hardware that causes problems but the quality and support of the software drivers that come with the hardware that are a problem Don t
177. is Connection error General Advanced network test error This error is reporting through Windows Management Instrumentation Further information will be displayed in the log such as Hardware disabled and Hardware not present Media disconnected A network connection has been disconnected during the Advanced network test This is the equivalent to the system seeing a network cable being unplugged Unable to bind to local NIC During the startup of the Advanced Network test BurninTest has failed to allocate a port number on the IP address specified for test This is typically a Network test error but also may be caused by other software using all ports for that IP address Not ready to send data timeout Not ready to receive data timeout There has been a timeout when trying to send or receive test data during the Advanced Network test This is a network error but may be caused if the system is greatly overloaded The 3D test was interrupted Typically this occurs if the user interrupts the 3D test by pressing escape when running the full screen 3D test It is not a 3D error as such No operations in a memory test process In the Multi Process Torture Test the number of memory test processes started was less than that configured in Preferences This is normally due to insufficient system resources and is not specifically a RAM error Check and possibly reduce the Torture test settings in Preferences gt RAM Memory test
178. is menu option in conjunction with the Load Test Configuration function it is possible to create a number of standard test configurations See Maintaining multiple test configurations for more information Saved 1999 2012 PassMark Software Understanding the display 21 configuration files can also be loaded automatically by including them on the command line See Command line arguments for more details Save Results Report Save the recent results as a text report HTML report or a customer targeted Test Certificate See Preparing a Customer Test Certificate for more information about configuring a test certificate for your company Save Window as Image Allows the currently selected tab on the main window e g System Information or Burn In Results to be saved in one of 3 different graphics file formats Bitmap BMP GIF and Enhanced Meta file format EMF See the save as image dialog box for more information Print Window Allows the currently selected tab on the main window e g System Information or Burn In Results to be printed The standard Print dialog window will be displayed allowing the user to select a printer etc Install BurninTest to a USB drive Install BurnInTest to a USB drive such that BurnInTest can be run from the USB drive Exit Exits from the application Edit Copy Image to Clipboard Copies the currently selected tab on the main window e g System Information or Burn In Results to the clip
179. isk from the test uncheck the Test this drive Up to 50 disk volumes drive letters and physical drives drive numbers can be selected for simultaneous testing Note The simultaneous testing of two partitions on the same physical hard drive will result in a lot of seeking between partitions and slow down the test significantly A physical drive drive number will shown in BurnInTest Professional if the disk is either unformatted or 1999 2012 PassMark Software s BurninTest V7 0 formatted but has no Windows installation and no paging file This raw disk test will create virtual test files on the raw disk Administrator privileges are required under Vista and later elevated Administrator privileges are required CAUTION As the Raw disk test will write directly to the disk not via the file system all data on the disk including any disk format information e g NTFS information will be destroyed As such use this option with caution Test mode The test patterns that can be selected are explained in the section Disk test suite File size The use can select the test file size and test pattern that is used with the disk test for each disk The size of the file is equal to a certain percentage of the disks capacity The default file size is 1 0 of the disk size So if a disk had a total capacity of 200GB then the default size of each file would be 2GB Setting a smaller percentage results in more files being created on
180. ission due to recoverable bus errors The USB 2 0 loopback plug Error LED is reset at the start of each test if results are configured to be cleared e at the start of each test Preferences Logs Log Clearing Automatically clear logs at the start of each run e onselecting Edit Clear All Results or e ona power reset e g PC sleep mode USB test window The following information is displayed in the USB test window USB Identity An indication of whether the USB port is connected to a USB1 or USB2 0 loopback plug is shown together with the maximum speed supported by the protocol currently supported by the USB port e g 12Mb s or 480Mb s The device number and the unique device serial number are then displayed The device number is determined by the order in which plugs are connected and disconnected and is not linked to a physical USB socket on the PC Note that this is different from Serial and Parallel ports The device serial number is collected during the USB device enumeration process and comes from the memory EEPROM in the plug itself 1999 2012 PassMark Software Test descriptions 69 Bytes Sent The number of Kilobytes sent to the USB device Bytes Rec The number of Kilobytes received from the USB device Throughput The number of Kilobits or Megabits of data received and transmitted in the last second Ave Throughput The average number of Kilobits or Megabits of data received and transmitted pe
181. it is possible to e Benchmark the maximum speed of your PC s USB ports e Measure the level of recovered data retransmitted frames Using these plugs on a system that is functioning correctly you can expect error free loopback transfer speeds of around e USB1 loopback plug 700 800 Kbits sec per port e USB 2 0 loopback plug 5 7 Mbits sec per port Note With benchmarking functionality provided in the USB2Test software you can expect to see between 250Mb sec and 380Mb sec for a USB 2 0 port connected to the motherboard To reach this level you need to have the USB test duty cycle set to 100 Up to 25 PassMark USB 2 0 loopback plugs requires V7 0 or later of the device driver or 10 PassMark USB 1 loopback plugs can be simultaneously connected to a PC providing that free USB ports are available on the PC or on a down stream hub Note If required both USB1 and USB 2 0 loopback plugs can be used to test different USB ports simultaneously To use the plugs they must be correctly installed with their device driver See the installation and users guide that is supplied with the plugs for more details Additional information about the plugs is also available on the PassMark web site Each test cycle corresponds to 1999 2012 PassMark Software e BurninTest V7 0 e USB 1 loopback plug 300 data blocks Roughly 600KB e USB 2 0 loopback plug 8000 data blocks 4000KB The number of Operations ops correspond
182. itoring BurninTest will display the results Temperature monitoring requires BurnInTest be run with administrator privileges In Vista and later this means Elevated administrator privileges are required About Intel Active Monitor Versions tested with BurnInTest 1 19 Intel Active Monitor monitors CPU temperatures motherboard temperatures voltages and fan speeds It contains some system information and supports programmable alerts The first 3 valid sensors available are used by BurninTest By default these are typically CPUs the case or hard disks Intel Active Monitor is available from http www intel com design motherbd active htm About Intel Desktop Utilities 1999 2012 PassMark Software 108 BurninTest V7 0 Versions tested with BurnInTest 2 1 3 0 Intel Desktop Utilities monitors CPU temperatures motherboard temperatures voltages and fan speeds It contains some system information and supports programmable alerts It is compatible with most newer Intel motherboards The first 3 valid sensors available are used by BurninTest By default these are typically CPUs the case or hard disks Intel Desktop Utilities is available from http www intel com design motherbd software idu About SpeedFan Versions tested with BurninTest 4 08 4 32 4 35 4 37 4 43 SpeedFan monitors CPU motherboard memory and HDD temperatures It also monitors voltages and fan speeds It allows the user to alter fan speeds to aid
183. ives letters you can select Automatically select all hard drives and all of the hard drive volumes on the system will be selected prior to running the test When this option is selected the test settings for all Hard Disks can be modified by selecting the Auto settings row in the Disk selection list It is not possible to configure individual disk settings when this option is selected This option will not alter the preferences for floppy disk drives or optical drives Edit details for drive To edit the test preferences for a disk select the Drive in the Disk Selection list Any changes you make in the Edit details for drive lt drive name gt will be reflected in this list A drive name is shown by either it s disk volumes letter e g C or a physical drive number e g 2 Test this drive To specify that a drive should be tested check the Test this drive This will copy the last used settings to the drive specified To test a shared network drive the drives needs to have a drive letter mapped to it Only those drives detected by the Windows operating system as displayed in the drop down list The following settings can be configured differently for each drive Slow drive warning threshold File size Test Pattern and Log SMART errors To use the general disk drive Duty cycle for each disk just set the Duty Cycle override value to blank no value otherwise set the required value per disk To remove a d
184. k the Tx and Rx LEDs flash on all plugs during the test Number of USB ports to test This is the number of USB devices that BurnInTest attempts to connect to In general you will want to set this value to be equal to the number of USB loopback devices that you would typically have connected to the machine A maximum of 25 plugs may be used at the same time If there are more plugs connected than configured in this section USB ports will be tested based on the following Ports 1999 2012 PassMark Software no BurninTest V7 0 8 22 with USB2 0 loopback plugs attached are first allocated for test lowest device number to highest followed by ports with USB1 loopback plugs attached lowest device number to highest PassMark USB 2 0 Loopback plugs detected This is a list of the loopback plugs that have been detected as being connected to the PC Examples are PMUSB2 0 480Mb s PASSMARK USB2Test Serial PMK5COKV V2 PMUSB2 1 12Mb s PASSMARK USB2 Test Serial PMK5COSD V2 PMUSB1 0 12Mb s USB Loopback plug Serial PM29K8PH PMUSBn m specifies whether the USB port has a Passmark USB loopback plug connected to it where n specifies whether the plug is a USB1 or USB2 0 loopback plug and m specifies the device number The device number is just a sequential number for USB1 and separately for USB2 which is incremented for each plug connected The maximum speed supported by the connected protocol for this Port is then di
185. l directory path and file name required or you can browse to the required video file by selecting the browse button The order the videos are specified is the order they will be played Video s in the file formats avi mpg amp mpeg are supported Sample test videos with different file formats and video compression are available from the PassMark Web site To automatically register four samples video files within BurnInTest rather than typing them in manually please follow the following steps 1999 2012 PassMark Software Selecting Test Preferences 11 1 Download the videos from the PassMark website Copy the files into the BurninTest directory If you have set up other test video files in preferences delete these from within Preferences Video Playback by simply highlighting the text in each edit box and pressing delete on your keyboard 4 Exit BurnlnTest 5 Start BurninTest If these PassMark Video sample files exist in the BurninTest directory you will now see these are configured in Preferences Video Playback Steps 3 amp 4 can be skipped if no video files have been previously configured in BurnInTest Preferences Video Playback If the PassMark video samples are not installed in the BurnInTest directory BurninTest will attempt to find the Microsoft Windows Clock avi video and configure this as Video file number 1 Test window setup multiple monitor testing With BurninTest Professional t
186. l speed from a stopped state Represents the number of start stop cycles for the drive The raw value indicates the count of start stop cycles for the drive The drive being powered on off or suspended woken up are considered as start stop cycles 5 Reallocate Lower Represents the amount of spare sector pool available Spare sectors are used 1999 2012 PassMark Software BurninTest V7 0 to replace sectors that became bad for some reason for instance if a read error occurs Therefore the more sectors reallocated the worse the condition lof the drive ow fo the number of seek errors Each time the drive attempts a seek Lower d Sector Count operation but fails to position its head correctly the seek error rate increases Represents how efficiently the drive is performing seek operations A low value Higher indicates problems with the drive subsystem for instance the servo responsible for positioning the head This is an informative attribute the raw value of which displays the number of Higher l hours the drive has been powered on for Spin Retry Low r Represents the number of times a drive fails to spin its spindle up to operation Count speed on the first attempt Calibration Calibration is the act of repositioning the drive read write head to cylinder 0 Retry Higher This value represents the number of times a calibration has failed on the first Count attempt Informative attribute the raw value of which r
187. lable disk space Thus this not really an error but a limitation of the FAT file system Which has now been replaced by FAT32 and NTFS Warning Disk_low speed threshold crossed The disk speed has fallen below the low speed threshold as specified in the Disk test preferences window Could not set CD Time format Could not get number of audio tracks Could not play the audio track CD ROM failed to return status information Can not detect audio information on CD No audio media in CD ROM These errors relate to one of the following problems There is not a CD in the first CD ROM connected to the computer The CD in the CD ROM is not a Music CD The CD is already in use by another application The CD has an error on it and is unreadable The CD is dirty dusty or scratched and can not be read The CD Software drivers are not correctly installed The CD ROM has a hardware error Checksum failure for optical disk file This indicates that the file read from the optical data disk being tested failed the checksum verification This means that the optical drive is unable to accurately read data from the optical disk being tested Could not open file on optical disk for reading The disk in the optical drive selected could not be opened for reading as a data disk Error while reading file from optical disk A full block of data could not be read from the optical data disk Error while searching for files on optical data disk 1999 20
188. ld ensure that line it is in fact currently configured as line in For example with RealTek High Definition Audio when the sound card is set up for 8 channel home theater the line in jack is changed to a side speaker out jack using the RealTek Alcwzrd software Note 3 If a system is under high load the audio device driver may not be able to output a continuous Sine waveform If this occurs you may see the Corrupt Audio input warning To determine if this is load related reduce system load and re test Note 4 If your system produces audio on certain events such as clicking a mouse button then these sounds should be turned off before using the sound Loopback test Before beginning a loopback test there are a few important configurations which must be carried out in Windows in order for the test results to be meaningful Getting ready for the loopback test 1 Open the mixer This can be done from Control Panel gt Sounds and Audio devices Alternatively the mixer can be started by double clicking on the small speaker icon on the task bar Note that the mixer device has two properties sections Playback and Recording which contain different volume controls depending on your sound card It is possible to toggle between the two sections through the Options gt Properties menu item of the mixer device 2 Check that Wave output is enabled E Volume Control Look at the settings for the overall Volume Control and Wave vol
189. lems which are fairly common on the Internet The IP address 127 0 0 1 can also be used for local loop back testing 1999 2012 PassMark Software a BurninTest V7 0 but this is not test the full port hardware The packet sent to the remote host contains a data payload and a checksum Every time a packet is echoed from the remote host the checksum is verified and the data payload is compared byte by byte with the data that was sent Any differences in the payload or an incorrect checksum will result in an error The data payload is 64 bytes in length To use this test the TCP IP Internet protocol must be installed on your computer This can be determined from the Windows Control Panel Network Window If you try and use this test without the Internet protocol being installed you will get a message like Could not create a Network Socket The amount of time BurninTest will spend waiting for a packet can also be set in the Test Preferences window An example of a running test is shown below e BurnInTest Network Test Intel R 82579V Gigabit Network Connection Network adapter 192 168 0 197 Ethernet Server 192 168 0 1 Packets sent rec 62721 62720 Current delay 0 40 ms a 0 42 ms 5 05 ms 5017680 bytes 2323 0 pktfs 0 0 000 il The meaning of the information displayed in the network test window is given below Network Adapter The IP address of the Network port under test Ser
190. level in laptop batteries and uninterruptible power supplies UPSs to be monitored Click the check box to turn on the feature Turning on this feature will cause BurnIinTest to log the battery statistics collected by BatteryMon Both programs need to be active and running for this feature to work Statistics collected will appear in the BurninTest reports where they will be broken down on a per battery basis There is also a summary charge level displayed in the main window When specified in Logging preferences temperature and battery information will also be reported each periodic log interval For more information about BatteryMon see the PassMark Software web site http www passmark com products batmon htm 8 21 USB ports The USB test is only included in the BurnInTest Pro version only Loopback test Automatically select all USB ports wth USB 2 0 Loopback plugs connected When selected this option determines the number of USB tests at the start of each test run by detecting the number of PassMark USB 2 0 Loobpack plugs correctly connected to the system at that time It should be noted that while this improves test automation it is possible that a USB port is faulty and the USB2 0 Loopback Plug has failed to be detected and the number of tests run is less than the required number of tests When using this option some type of validation should be done to verify that all of the USB 2 0 loopback plugs are correctly connected e g chec
191. lication and exit To help with the process of test automation it is possible to have BurnInTest run an external application and exit automatically after the tests have been completed This could be used for example to call an application or batch file that would undertake a different type of testing e g PassMark PerformanceTest or customer specific reporting Exit and Reboot PC This option is useful for reboot cycling testing Once configured BurnInTest can be setup so that the PC will reboot itself in a cycle with test runs occurring between each reboot See the section on Reboot cycling for more details 1999 2012 PassMark Software Selecting Test Preferences 99 Manual Stop Actions specific to manually stopped tests are described below Stop Tests Normal behavior This option will stop all the running tests and close all test windows This is the normal default setting Display option to run application This option allows tests to be stopped prior to reaching the test duration while maintaining a post test process that is consistent with the automatic stop actions such as customer specific reporting BurninTest can display an option to the user asking whether they want to run the Post test application after a test run is manually stopped If the user selects to run the external application BurnInTest will exit after running the application If the user selects not to run the external application then BurninTest w
192. licence agreement Agreement applies only to the version of the software package BurninTest with which this Agreement is included Different licence terms may apply to other software packages from PassMark and licence terms for later versions of BurninTest may also be changed TITLE PassMark or its licensors own the BurninTest software package including all materials included with the package PassMark owns the names and marks of PassMark BurninTest under copyright trademark and intellectual property laws and all other applicable laws TERMINATION This licence will terminate automatically if you fail to comply with any of the terms and conditions limitations and obligations described herein On termination you must destroy all copies of the PassMark package and all other materials downloaded as part of the package Trial Version If you are using a trial version of BurnInTest then you must uninstall the software after the trial period of thirty 30 days has elapsed DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY PassMark disclaims any and all warranties express or implied including any implied warranties as to merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose You acknowledge and agree that you had full opportunity to test BurnInTest before any live public or production use that you assume full responsibility for selecting and using BurnInTest and any files that may created through the use of BurninTest and that if you use BurnInTest impro
193. locations setting on will cause BurnInTest to log memory allocations and de allocations into the detailed log file This is mainly useful for debugging purposes See also Memory test description 8 15 1 Setting the Lock Pages in Memory right E Local Secur Action View Tree Local Setting Rd Generate security 4 82 Increase quotas Administrators 59 Local Policies Rg Increase scheduling Administrators Audit Policy Load and unload de Administrators 3 User Rights Assignment Lock pages in memory H E Security Options s Log on as a batch job C Public Key Policies RE Log on as a service a IP Security Policies on Local M Rs Log on locally DAVIDZ000 Guest lag Manage auditing an Administrators RA madi Firrnasara amy fidrainictr akare Bs 4 halk gt To use the advanced RAM test the user needs to be logged in as the administrator and have the Lock pages in memory right This right is turned off by default when Windows is installed To turn it on you need to be logged in as the administrator and complete the following steps Security Settings A3 Account Policies 1 DAVIDZ000 4dminis 1 Open the Windows control panel 2 Open the Administrative Tools window from the control panel and then open the Local Security Policy utility This should open a new window call
194. lp diagnose troubleshoot and load test your PC s USB 1 x and 2 0 ports Five status LEDs on the USB 2 Loopback plug will dramatically improve the troubleshooting and diagnostic ability of computer technicians and system integrators who have previously been working blind The Red Green and Yellow LED s on the front of this USB adapter plug provide a quick visual indication of I O activity and if the USB bus is powered The Orange LED will provide a quick indication whether the PC port is currently supporting the higher USB 2 0 speed up to 480Mb s or the lower speed found with USB 1 x of up to 12 Mb s The leftmost red LED indicates whether recoverable bus error retransmission of data has occurred j F These plugs are unique They are the only true USB 2 0 loop back adapters on the market and have been especially designed for use with our BurninTest Professional software package They do not require an external power supply and do not require a connection to any other port on a PC Each plug also has its own serial number stored in EPROM on the plug so it is possible to identify each plug when multiple plugs are connected Each plug also contains its own CPU and executes its own firmware which can be upgraded in the future by download Technical Specifications USB standard Plug and play Physical connector USB Transfer modes Voltage Current Clock speed Device data buffers Device memory Case Size
195. lse s packet This is not really an error It s more of an information message Don t worry about this message Bad packet Checksum incorrect The checksum in the echoed incoming data packet is not correct This indicates data corruption or a fault on the remote machine Note that this checksum is calculated by the remote machine Bad packet Corrupt data The contents of the incoming data packet are not correct Normally this error would not been seen as the checksum should detect the incorrect data before this error occurs COM port is already in use by another program The serial port selected for the test is already is use by Windows This may be for the mouse a modem or another serial device The requested COM port could not be found The serial port selected for the test does not exist in this computer This could happen if COM4 1999 2012 PassMark Software 190 BurninTest V7 0 is selected but the computer has only 2 serial ports COM1 and COM2 Error while opening COM port Windows has reported an error while trying to open the serial port selected for the test This could be a configuration problem in Windows This error should not normally been seen Error getting current COM port configuration Error while setting new COM port configuration Windows has reported an error while trying to configure the selected serial port The most common cause for this error would be the selection of a speed that is not suppor
196. lt parameter gt SETDISK ALL lt parameter gt Parameters DISK Disk Name volume letter This parameter must be specified first MODE Test Mode 1 CYCLIC Cyclic 2 SEQUENTIAL Sequential data pattern 3 SEEKING Random data with random seeking 4 HIGHLOW High low frequency data overwrite 5 BUTTERFLY Butterfly seeking 6 BINARY1 Binary data pattern 1 7 BINARY2 Binary data pattern 2 8 ZEROS Zeros data pattern 9 ONES Ones data pattern 10 RANDOM Random data pattern SLOW Slow drive threshold Value in MB sec FILE File Size Value in of disk space BLOCK Block size Value in KB SMART Log SMART errors YES NO SEEK Seek count Value BADSECTOR Log bad sector increase YES NO 1999 2012 PassMark Software Test automation and productivity THRESHOLD Bad sector threshold Value DUTY Duty cycle override Value in The following parameters are global i e not for a particular disk ALL Select all hard drives YES NO Examples SETDISK DISK c MODE binary1 SLOW 4 FILE 2 BLOCK 512 SMART no SETDISK DISK d SEEK 10 BADSECTOR yes THRESHOLD 25 DUTY 5 SETDISK ALL yes SETOPTICALDISK COMMAND Overview Set the Optical disk test preferences The first parameter for this command is always optical disk name except for ALL parameter which tests all drives The Burn CD and Burn DVD test modes cannot be scripted Syntax SETOPTICALDISK DRIVE lt parameter gt MODE lt parameter gt SEEK l
197. ltiple disk drives at the same time you may not want to test multiple partitions that are on the same physical drive at the same time Doing this can result in an enormous amount of seeking between partitions and not as much reading and writing e PassMark recommends running BurninTest just after you install a PC for the first time as this is the ideal time to find a problem The PC will be still under warranty and you can t lose any of your data because you haven t loaded any Any disruption caused by a failure will be minimal e Remember that BurninTest does not create problems in your hardware it just helps you find them in a controlled manner BurnInTest doesn t use any nasty programming tricks to try and make your hardware fail It uses the same functions and procedures that standard Windows applications and file servers use If your computer fails when running BurninTest it was going to fail in the near future anyway e lf you only want to test a particular component of the computer turn the other tests off There s no point using the CD Drive when you only wanted to test the new hard drive e Doing a successful test run doesn t mean that the computer will never fail Software problems viruses and the fact that no computer component has an unlimited life span means that precautions need to be taken Having good BurnInTest results is NOT a substitute for making good file backups in the future e Because BurninTest doesn t dele
198. ly 185 Incorrect 64bit 3DNow floating point result 185 Incorrect mathematical addition 185 Incorrect mathematical division 185 Incorrect mathematical multiply 185 Incorrect mathematical subtraction 185 Incorrect media in drive for test 185 Incorrect MMX addition 185 Incorrect MMX multiplication 185 Incorrect MMX subtraction 185 Insufficient rights to lock pages See help 185 Insufficient system resources to complete test 185 Integer 41 78 Intel Active Monitor 105 Interpreting the results 29 Introduction to BurninTest 10 Invalid video file specified 185 K KeyboardTest 94 Licensing information 18 Lines 2D Graphics test 37 Load 136 Lock pages in RAM Locking 65 Locking pages 102 Log clearing 85 Logfile 118 121 127 Log files 85 Logging 85 118 121 127 Loop 160 59 100 Loop back 56 61 164 166 167 168 Loopback 63 66 164 LPT 94 LPT port 56 Machine type 114 Maths 78 Maths test suite 41 MBM 105 Media 52 65 Media disconnected 185 Memory 59 Memory card readers 43 Memory sticks 43 Memory test 102 Memory test failure Faulty RAM likely 185 Menu Options 20 24 Message 136 Midi files 63 Minimum colour depth of 16 bits required 185 Minimum requirements 204 Mixer 63 MMX operation verification failed 185 ModemTest 94 Mother Board Monitor 105 MP3 files 683 Multiplication 41 Music 52 63 Music CD 52 N Network 47 88 Network Test 49 90 Network test alarm
199. matic data reception recovery attempted 185 Automatic data transmission recovery attempted 185 Autoplay 92 Autorun 92 Autostop 98 160 B Bad packet Checksum incorrect 185 Bad packet Corrupt data 185 Bad packet Length incorrect 185 BartPE 159 Battery 109 BatteryMon 109 Bitmap 2D Graphics test 37 Bluetooth 40 Bluetooth device does not support required service profile see help 185 Bluetooth not supported Check your Bluetooth adapter 185 Bluetooth test not supported on this Operating System see help 185 BMP 116 Bug Hunting Burner 52 Butterfly seeking test not supported for this disk 185 C Can not detect audio information on CD 185 CD 92 CD bun 52 CD Media is not ready to be played 185 CD ROM 52 92 CD Maker 52 CD ROM failed to return status WARNING 185 CD RW 52 182 185 Certificate 118 121 127 Charge 109 Checksum failure for optical disk file 185 Classifications 20 24 Clear 20 24 COM port 61 COM port Clear To Send CTS line stuck high 185 COM port Clear To Send CTS line stuck low 185 COM port Data Set Ready DSR line stuck high 185 1999 2012 PassMark Software 212 BurninTest V7 0 COM port Data Set Ready DSR line stuck low COM port detected a Receive Framing error 185 COM port detected a Receive Overrun Error 185 COM port detected a Receive Parity Error 185 COM port detected a Receive Queue overflow 185 COM port detected a Transmit Queue is full 185 COM
200. mory test and is turned off be default If you have set this right make sure you are logged on as the administrator and have rebooted the machine so that the change takes effect Could not get extended RAM info W2000 or XP Reg The user has selected the advanced RAM test but there was a problem detecting while trying to obtain information about extended RAM SMART Threshold exceeding condition detected One of the drives S M A R T Attributes has exceeded its threshold This signals imminent drive failure and indicates the tests should be stopped and the drive replaced To learn more about S M A R T see What is S M A R T Could not get extended RAM info W2000 or XP Reg The user has selected the advanced RAM test but there was a problem detecting while trying to obtain information about extended RAM Recoverable Video playback error Unrecoverable video playback error Video format not supported or invalid Unable to play the video file Failed to play the video file specified in Preferences The Video codec may not be supported Check the installed video codecs A level 2 trace log may also provide additional information Video Codec not supported or audio only The Video file specified in Preferences is either Audio only or the Video Codec is not supported Check that the Video contains video Considering using the Video samples available from the PassMark Software website Configured Parallel port does not exist 1999 20
201. mplete for the current test cycle The contents of the files will correspond to a particular data pattern The following patterns will be used in a cyclic manner in the following order Sequence 0 1 2 255 Binary 1 10101010 Binary 2 01010101 Zeros 00000000 Ones 11111111 The number of files created and the size of each file can be set in the Preferences window The tape needs to be large enough to contain the number of files selected plus a small amount of overhead for file marks A test cycle is completed each time all the files have been written and re read A cycle may end prematurely for some errors conditions The number of Ops reported in the main window is the total of the bytes read and bytes written Pattern The current data pattern that is being used to fill the test files see the list above Bytes Written This is the total number of bytes that have written to the tape Bytes Read This is the total number of bytes that have read from the tape Errors This is the number of errors detected Throughput R W This is the measured throughput for the tape drive Measured in MB Sec A separate value is maintained for reading and writing A few large test files will result in better throughput compared to many small ones USB port test Applicable to BurninTest Pro version only Tests the USB Universal Serial Bus communications ports connected to the PC The USB devices that are connected can be vie
202. n be edited to change this error message classification Number 138 to NONE In Windows XP and later you need to be the administrator to run this test In Windows Vista and later you will need to run BurninTest with Elevated administrator privileges Run as administrator or turn off UAC User Account Control To perform Parallel Port testing from a script that includes system reboots UAC will need to be turned off to perform Parallel Port testing after the reboot Turning off UAC will remove all user account control and you should understand the impact of this before doing it and ensure the system is returned to required settings after the test If the port is not detected by BurninTest check the BIOS settings for the port Note that the old bi directional BIOS mode is not supported ECP or EPP mode is required Parallel Port This is the port name for the parallel port being tested The port can be selected from the Test Preferences window Bytes Sent This is the number of bytes that have been sent to the parallel port Bytes Received This is the number of bytes that have received from the parallel port Errors This is the number of errors detected Throughput This is the measured throughput for the port 6 12 Plug in test Applicable to BurninTest Pro version only If you have specialized hardware that BurniInTest does not test you can write your own test and integrate it with BurninTest Up to 5 Plugins ca
203. n be specified PassMark has developed Plugins for the following tests Touch screen testing using PassMark s MonitorTest software 1999 2012 PassMark Software s BurninTest V7 0 6 13 Modem testing using PassMark s ModemTest software Keyboard testing using PassMark s KeyboardTest software Sample software in C and C is also available to assist developing a Plugin for your specific hardware The plug in test will appear as another test much like all of the tests It may be switched on or off and duty cycle set The Plug in application can define the following which may be displayed logged and included in the BurnInTest results The test window title text The number of test cycles completed The number of plug in test errors in the current test run The plug in may flag BurninTest when a new error occurs and pass a plug in defined error message this will be displayed in the BurnInTest windows and may be logged in the log file The plug in may flag BurninTest when it wants to display new status text defined by the plug in such as Waiting for event The Plug in may define up to 3 number of operations counts Typically this would be for something like the number of writes reads and verifies All three operation counters may be given plug in defined labels which will be displayed in the BurnInTest test window Any operation counter may be flagged as not in use
204. n t seem to be very common Q I get an error like Protection Error Debugger detected please shut it down and restart There are several causes for this error but the most common is that there is an known incompatibility with the Nero 6 Nero 7 and BurninTest We have circumvented this problem from V5 3 1005 of BurninTest The problem can be resolved by updating BurninTest uninstalling Nero or just the DivX codec or upgrading or downgrading the Divx software or not using the video test in BurnInTest 1999 2012 PassMark Software 178 12 1 7 BurninTest V7 0 Q I get time out errors during the serial port test If you are testing serial ports at a high speed together with USB ports it should be noted that some chip sets have been reported to have limitations while under load high load Contact your manufacturer regarding these types of limitations Q get an error with the parallel port test Error loading parallel port device driver It can occur when you are running BurninTest Professional from a networked drive In this case Windows may fail to load the device driver required to provide access to the parallel port The only solution for the moment is to copy the BurninTest files to a local drive before running it Update1 This has also been seen even when BurninTest is on a local drive It seems to be a timing issue BurninTest will automatically attempt to reload the driver after a delay of a few seconds and the te
205. n the shortcut target 1999 2012 PassMark Software Test automation and productivity 135 Example 1 Start BurninTest from a shortcut and run tests automatically Right click on the bit exe file and select Create Shortcut Right click on the new shortcut file and select Properties and specify a Target with the command line argument C BurnlnTest bit exe r Now to run BurnInTest with these command line parameters just double click the BurninTest shortcut You could also copy the shortcut to the Windows Startup folder to run BurninTest automatically with the current default settings after Windows has booted 2 You can open a command window Start R Cmd This will open a command window where you can type commands directly such as shown below Example 2 Start BurnInTest from a command window and run a pre defined script of tests Select Windows Start R Cmd Once the Windows command window is open type in the commands cd C Program Files BurninTest bit exe s MyScript bits 3 You can write a batch file to execute BurnInTest with Command line arguments Example 3 Start BurnInTest from a batch file with a pre defined configuration file Create a file with an text editor like Notepad called Test bat and include the lines in the file Cc cd program files BurnInTest bit exe c heawload bitcfg Example 4 Start BurninTest on a USB flash drive from a batch file run the tests automatically and use the bit exe director
206. nInTest will raise an error It is the allowed increased in the number of bad sectors during the test 8 4 1 What is S M A R T S M A R T Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology is an interface between the BIOS and a computers hard disk It is a feature of the Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics EIDE technology that controls access to the hard drive If S M A R T is enabled when a computer is set up the BIOS can receive analytical information from the hard drive and determine whether to send the user a warning message about possible future failure of the hard drive S M A R T monitors a set of drive attributes such as temperature throughput performance and the number of hours the drive has been powered on It compares these attributes to a corresponding set of thresholds If an attribute drops below its threshold the drive is no longer considered fit for use and should be replaced immediately Not all attributes are available on all drives however it is the responsibility of the drive manufacturer to include S M A R T support The S M A R T attributes are listed here phe ie value Description 1 Raw Read Lower Represents the rate of uncorrected read errors Error Rate 2 Throughput Higher Represents the throughput performance of the drive l e The speed at which the drive is reading and writing data ce 3 Spin Up L w r Represents the average amount of time required to spin up the drive spindle to Time operationa
207. net Test Mode Internal Loopback A test to the Internal loopback address 127 0 0 1 is performed BurninTest will not force the routing of test traffic over a specific network port and the data routing will depend on the local routing table setup in Windows Depending on the implementation this may only test the network software stack All available physical network ports BurnlnTest will automatically route the test traffic over all Network adapters that are available and enabled on the system The Network Adapters under test will be logged The number of Network Adapters that will be tested is based on the number of Network Address destinations specified in Preferences gt Network Each Network Address 1 to 12 will be allocated to a Network adapter If there are more Network Addresses specified than detected Network adapters then an error will be raised All Network ports should all be on the same subnet All available physical ethernet ports As per All available physical network ports but this test mode will only test ethernet ports All available physical 802 11 ports As per All available physical network ports but this test mode will only 802 11 ports 1999 2012 PassMark Software Selecting Test Preferences 89 Note On Windows Vista and later the internal loopback e g 127 0 0 1 may not be specified for the All available physical ports test modes 1 12 Network addresses When the Test mode is set to any opt
208. ng escseseesseeseeesseeseeeseeeseesseeeseesseeeseeseeesseesenesseeseneseeeeenenee 180 General comments about occasional system crashes s s nnsnsensnsnrunnnrnrnnnnenrnnnnnnnnnnnennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn ena 182 2 Faut TM GUNG so enra Ea A ASEA AA A AEETIS E AAE a Ri 182 3 Common test error MeESSAJeES ssssssnnssnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn nenn nn nnmnnn nnmnnn a 185 4 System require Ment eececececeeeseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeeseeeeeeeseeeeeeeseeeeeenseeeeeeeseesseeess 204 5 Contacting PassMark Software cceeececeeeeeseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeeseeeeeeeseeeeeeeseeeeeenseeeeneeneeeseees 205 Part XIII Legal 208 Index 211 1999 2012 PassMark Software 10 BurninTest V7 0 1 Introduction and Overview PassMark s BurninTest is a software tool that allows all the major sub systems of a computer to be simultaneously tested for reliability and stability Anyone who has used computers for any period of time knows 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 kne
209. not to report Butterfly seeking test not supported for this disk errors This can be achieved by editing the Error Classifications file BITErrorClassifications txt for Error Number 160 to NONE For example changing the line from 160 Butterfly seeking test not supported for this disk INFORMATION to 160 Butterfly seeking test not supported for this disk NONE The default setting is to cycle between the patterns In this case a new pattern will be selected each time the disk has reached the BurninTest full level Where the disk drive is a floppy CD DVD or the operating system is Vista and later and the user is not running BurninTest with elevated administrator privileges then Butterfly seeking will be skipped in the Cyclic testing and a log message reported BurninTest Professional specific The Quick physical drive test works by writing reading and verifying virtual test files to the start of the disk the end of the disk and a random selection in between This provides for much quicker disk testing BurninTest Professional specific end 1999 2012 PassMark Software BurninTest V7 0 Overview of settings The user can chose to log SMART Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology errors To learn more about SMART see section What is S M A R T Each of the following settings Slow drive warning threshold File size Test pattern and the logging of SMART errors may be configured differently f
210. nt to this EULA which is included with the software constitutes the entire Agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter herein and supersedes all previous and contemporaneous agreements proposals and communications written or oral between you and PassMark Waiver by PassMark of any violation of any provision of this Agreement shall not be deemed to waive any further or future violation of the same or any other provision Additional information For questions regarding the copyright end user license contact multi user licenses and site licenses contact info passmark com 1999 2012 PassMark Software Index 211 Index Ds 2D Graphics ee 32bit 204 3D Graphics test suite 39 37 47 77 78 A test process failed to allocate memory 185 Access Violation 185 Accumulate logs 85 Accurate testing 180 Addition 41 Administrator right 59 100 Administrator rights 102 Advanced 49 90 Advanced Network Receive error 185 Advanced Network Receive error no data received 185 Advanced Network Send error 185 Advanced Network Send error no data sent 185 Advanced Network Socket error 185 Advanced Network Test 49 90 Advanced Network test error 185 Advanced Network Test Options 90 Advanced Network test timed out 185 Advanced RAM test 100 ANSI C63 4 1992 47 Application events 29 ASCII 118 121 127 Attribute 81 Audio 63 164 Audio Input doesn t match Audio Output 185 Auto execute 133 Auto
211. ode allows automatic detection of all keys being successfully pressed of User failure with User selected reasons The keyboard can be failed at any time during the test or on requested user verification A reason from a list of failure reasons will also be logged in BurninTest It should be noted that the KeyboardTest Keyboard Layout file kbl needs to describe the keyboard you plan to test This file describes all of the keys on the keyboard and is used among other things to determine when all the keys have been pressed and hence the trigger for automatically passing the keyboard You may be able to use one of the default keyboards shipped with KeyboardTest you may find a matching keyboard on our website Keyboard Layout Download Page or you may have to create your own kbl file as described in the KeyboardTest help file Version of Plugin required PassMark KeyboardTest V2 2 1011 or higher Test name within BurnInTest displays and reports Keyboard Test information displayed in BurnInTest Status text number of operations errors and cycles error text and severity Application field should be set to KeyboardTest exe p Where p specifies KeyboardTest to run as a plugin in a modified batch mode e g C KeyboardTest KeyboardTest exe p Run as pre test plugin should be unchecked Notes 1 You should install KeyboardTest before starting 2 You should license KeyboardTest so that the Welcome window is not displayed when th
212. oftware Test automation and productivity 161 C Program Files BurnInTest bit exe r The Rebooter help file Rebooter hlp also contains more details about how to start programs automatically with Windows Step4 Start the cycle Start the 1st test run from within BurnInTest with the Start Tests button At the end of the test period you have entered the PC will reboot according to the settings in Rebooter and after the reboot BurninTest will automatically re start and do another test run then Reboot again Note When Rebooter is started from BurninTest the Rebooter setting of Auto load Rebooter at startup is not applied This allows BurnInTest to be setup as the auto restart program and avoids the conflict of both BurninTest and Rebooter autostarting after a reboot This means that only a single reboot will be performed when rebooter is run from BurnInTest To perform multiple reboots from within BurnInTest a script should be used with multiple REBOOT commands More about Rebooter Rebooter is a small utility program developed by PassMark Software to help automate the PC hardware testing process It has been designed to work with PassMark BurninTest but will also work with 3rd party application Rebooter allows you to Shutdown Reboot or Logout of a PC Reboot a PC from the command line Set a timer so that the PC will reboot after a certain amount of time Setup a reboot loop to reboot a PC over an over again in
213. om or you can make them yourself Each test cycle corresponds to 500 000 bytes of data transmission The number of ops corresponds to the number of bytes sent and received The duty cycle affects the time spent waiting between cycles 1999 2012 PassMark Software Test descriptions The parallel port selected must not already be in use by Windows for example by the printer or other external device for the test to be carried out The default on board Parallel port settings are that Port1 is named LPT1 and corresponds to the physical IO memory address 0378 Depending on the version of Windows you are using you may be able to change a number of Parallel Port settings including the port name e g You may have renamed LPT1 to LPT2 and the IO address e g You may have changes port to use Ox3BC instead of 0x378 BurninTest will automatically detect the changes for the on board parallel port For W2000 and later versions of Windows PCI and ISA parallel ports will also be automatically detected and available for testing Note That the Windows operating system may block exclusive access to the Parallel port This is reported with the error Unable to lock Parallel Port When this occurs there is a retry pattern over a number of minutes to try and lock the port Regardless of the result the parallel port test will then commence If you wish to ignore the Unable to lock Parallel Port message the BITErrorClassifications txt file ca
214. omatically insert 3 sections where the following marker is placed in the HTML file lt BITCERTIFICATE gt lt Do not edit this line as it will be replaced by the results report gt The sections are BurninTest Certificate Includes Customer name date technician name and BurninTest version System summary Includes summary information about the CPU OS RAM video card and drives Result summary Includes test start and stop times duration and a list of tests run with a PASS or FAIL indication Certification statement The certification heading and title can be modified in the HTML file by editing the following sections lt h2 gt Certification lt h2 gt lt p gt This document certifies that the Tests described above have been carried out by a suitably qualified technician on the System described lt p gt 1999 2012 PassMark Software ns BurninTest V7 0 9 4 Example text log PassMark BurniInTest Log file http www passmark com Date 05 18 11 17 06 21 BurniInTest V7 0 Pro 0000 64 bit System summary Windows 7 Ultimate Edition build 7600 64 bit 1 x Intel R Core TM i5 CPU 750 2 67GHz 4 0GB RAM ATI Radeon HD 3450 466GB HDD CD RW DVDRW BD HD DVD ROM General System Name COREI5 System Model GBTUACPI BIOS Manufacturer GBT 42302e31 BIOS Release Date 2009 08 01 CPU CPU manufacturer GenuinelIntel CPU Type Intel R Core TM i5 CPU 750 2 67GHz Codename Lynnfi
215. on package This report information can be generated automatically or manually e Saved into a file automatically during a test The level of detail can be specified please see Test Preferences Logging e Saved into a file manually please see File Save Results Report e Copied to the clipboard for pasting into another application please see Edit Copy clipboard and Pop up menus Images may be captured from the BurnInTest tabs e g Temperature using the File Save Window as Image option The image formats EMF GIF and BMP can be saved manually to a file or copied to the clipboard Detailed debug type reports can also be selected to help diagnose system problem There are 2 levels of Activity Trace logging Level 1 activity trace logging mainly outputs additional information regarding error conditions Level 2 trace logging outputs Level 1 content as well as a significant amount of activity reporting that helps understand specifically what the tests are doing in quite some detail these files are generally very large These reports can be selected to be in text or HTML format however text files are generally easier to analyze post testing Level 2 trace files can also include detailed information like Windows system and application events and detailed System memory information example Report information Machine identity Garr al rence niorir Machine Type HP WiiOoO Sorel Mabe 14RD ABCDEF Addio Note Tau camed as by
216. or during the serial port test COM port detected a Receive Framing error The serial port hardware detected a framing error during the serial port test COM port detected a Transmit Queue is full Burnintest tried to transmit test data character over the configured serial port however the output buffer on the serial port handling chip was full Automatic data transmission recovery attempted Automatic data reception recovery attempted The USB test using the USB 2 0 Loopback plug has failed on a write or read to the USB plug USB errors can be corrected at different layers including hardware operating system device driver and application layers Errors that are not recovered at a hardware layer are often recovered at a device driver layer but not always With BurnInTest and the USB 2 0 Loopback plug PassMark have intentionally not attempted error recovery at the device driver level as this may mask real hardware problems This error is a hardware error Such as poor quality USB cabling or other electrical interference that is not recovered at the USB hardware layer BurninTest will try to recover from the error at the application layer to determine if the error is recoverable i e the data has not been removed from or corrupted in the appropriate buffer These errors can be ignored by changing the BITErrorClassification txt file in the BurnlInTest directory In this case BurninTest will attempt recovery and only report the error if recovery
217. or each disk drive The disk drive Duty Cycle setting will be used for all drives when the Duty Cycle Override entry is set blank no value If a different duty cycle is required for a particular disk drive a value may be entered in the Duty Cycle Override entry The following settings can be configured differently for each drive Slow drive warning threshold File size Test Pattern and Log SMART errors To use the general disk drive Duty cycle for each disk just set the Duty Cycle override value to blank no value otherwise set the required value per disk If an error is detected in the coded number sequence then the error count is incremented The numbers of bytes written and read from the disk are displayed in the test window The addition of these two values is displayed in the main window Disk Self Test The Disk Self Test DST is a set of built in routines implemented by the vendor to perform failure diagnostics on the disk The execution of the DST and the retrieval of the test results are defined by the ATA industry standard Most drives that conform to this standard implements this set of built in routines If the SMART option is selected for the disk test then the DST is run before the standard BurninTest disk test If the f command line parameter is also specified then an extended disk self test is also run If the DST is not supported by the disk a message will be logged and the DST skipped Disclaimer It has been observed
218. ors System requirements Operating System Windows XP SP3 and later 2003 Server Vista 2008 Server Windows 7 CPU CPU support e g SSE2 is required in order to run the CPU tests for those specific instructions e g SSE2 RAM 128 MB Disk space 30 Meg of free hard disk space plus an additional 100MB to run the Disk test DirectX 9 0c or above software for 3D graphics and video tests plus working DirectX drivers for your video card Operating System compatibility notes 1 BurninTest must be run with administrator privileges It requires elevated administrator privileges in Vista and later 2 RAM test The standard and Torture tests are available on all operating systems The Address Windowing Extensions test mode is only available under operating systems where you can lock memory pages into memory such as Windows XP Professional 3 Optical drive test The CD and DVD burn tests require Windows Vista and later IMAPI v2 patched XP or IMAPI v2 patched 2003 Server 4 The Bluetooth test is available on Windows workstations XP SP3 and later Vista and Windows 7 5 Windows XP SP2 and earlier are not supported by BurninTest V7 0 Use BurninTest V6 0 for compatibility with Windows 2000 amp XP SP2 and earlier Use BurnInTest V5 2 for compatibility with Windows 98 amp ME 1999 2012 PassMark Software Other A printer to run the printer test setup as the default printer in Windows A CD ROM 1 Music
219. ort test is only included in the BurnInTest Pro version only COM Ports selected gt gt Remove selected ports To remove one or more a Serial ports select the COM port s from the left hand list then click on the remove button lt lt Add new port to list To select a serial port for testing select the COM port number from the right hand drop down list select the test type then click on the add button Up to 64 ports can be selected for simultaneous testing COM1 n Serial port drop down list The communications ports that will be used by the serial port test e g COM1 Detect and loopback test Detect test only For each serial port it is possible to select either a Detect and loopback test or a Detect only test The Detect and loopback test requires the use of serial port loopback plugs The Detect only test does not require a loopback plug When possible use the loopback test as it is a more though test COM port test settings Disable RTS CTS and DSR DTR test phase The checkbox will disable the part of the serial port that checks that the signal pins are functioning correction RTS Request to send pin CTS Clear to send pin DSR Data set ready pin 1999 2012 PassMark Software 10 BurninTest V7 0 8 17 8 18 DTR Data Terminal ready pin This can be useful to avoid errors when testing non standard serial ports Send and Receive timeouts This is the amount of time in milliseconds
220. our computer is about to crash or lock up Error allocating RAM from Windows The Windows operating system was not able to allocate the amount of RAM requested by BurninTest for the memory test As the RAM must be allocated in a continuous block this error can sometimes be seen as a result of free memory fragmentation Error connecting to network Could not create a network socket Could not set socket timeouts During the establishment of a network connection an error was encountered The Network address selected has no effect on if these errors occur They can be the result of the following problems There is no network connection configured for the computer The computer is physically disconnected from the network The Internet TCP IP protocol is not installed on this computer Networking functions aren t available ws2_32 dll During the establishment of a network connection an error was encountered This error indicates that the Windows Network Socket functions supplied by the library ws2_32 dll are not available on this system This main mean that The Internet TCP IP protocol is not correctly installed on this computer Could not allocate memory for packets 1999 2012 PassMark Software Windows is low on resources and cannot allocate any more memory Could not resolve host name check settings The Network address selected does not seem to be correct Try another address or using a TCP IP address directly The
221. p down list The test modes are NO TEST Music CD playback Data disk read and verify PassMark Test CD DVD No media in drive Burn CD and Burn DVD Auto Test CD amp Burn DVD is also available after Select all optical drives has been selected See the CD Test description for more details about test modes To remove an optical drive from the test select a Test Mode of NO TEST from the drop down list Up to 26 drive letters can be selected for simultaneous testing The CD and DVD burn tests supports a maximum of 1 drive simultaneously The type of CD or DVD used in the actual test should match the setting in this window Additional seeking Seek count For PassMark CD DVD s and Burn CD RW only When Additional seeking is selected seeking to different positions on the CD DVD or CD RW will occur Seek Count number of times for each cycle of file read verify _ Quick Erase Full Erase For Burn CD RW and Burn DVD RW only Erase the CD or DVD media The quick option erases content type information in typically less than two minutes The Full option additionally erases all user data on the disc however this can take a considerable amount of time over 1 hour and the test cannot be canceled during this stage Test media For Burn CD RW and Burn DVD RW only CD RWs are available in a number of sizes The most common are 650Megabytes MB and 700MB of 1999 2012 PassMark Software Selecting Test Preferences 93 data
222. part of the PC Test Kit and Bootable USB Flash Drive products does not support the following tests and as such these tests have been removed from the selection 2D 3D Video Playback Sound Printer and Tape 1999 2012 PassMark Software BurninTest V7 0 8 Selecting Test Preferences Test Preference Windows The Test Preference Windows allow the detailed configuration of each test type such as the CPU and disk tests to be set The test configuration Windows are described in the Test preference sections shown below e 2D Graphics and video memory tests i Temp Battery Sound GF CPU Porter us Pre Test si Post Test Video Payback O Tape Senaipots 2 gt Paralel ports e 3D Graphics test SB 20Grphics Gh 20Grphics use RAM ic Pugin F Dsk Optical Dak F5 Logong da Eros Ei Network e CPU test Dik glecio Automatically select all hard drives at the start of testing e Disk test Orive Test Mode Threshold Filesize 02 Physical disk H Default Cydic NA 1 00 C Local drive Default Cyclic NA 10 E e Error handling D PASSMARK_DVD Optic Not Testing E New Volume Local drive Not Testing F New Volume Local drive Not Testing e Logging eranerane arreire Edit details for drive 02 Physical dsk H e Network Bluetooth and Advanced Test this drive 7 network tests Test mode Default Cyckc File size 1 00 of disk e Optical Drive test Block size 256 KB Stow d
223. perly or against instructions you can cause damage to your files software data or business The entire risk as to quality and performance of BurninTest is borne by you This disclaimer of warranty constitutes an essential part of the agreement Some jurisdictions do allow exclusions of an implied warranty so this disclaimer may not apply to you and you may have other legal rights that vary by jurisdiction LIMITATION OF LIABILITY In no event shall PassMark its officers employees affiliates contractors subsidiaries or parent organizations be liable for any incidental consequential or punitive damages whatsoever relating to the use of BurninTest files created by BurninTest or your relationship with PassMark Some jurisdictions do not allow exclusion or limitation of liability for incidental or consequential damages therefore the above limitation may not apply to you 1999 2012 PassMark Software HIGH RISK ACTIVITIES BurninTest is not fault tolerant and is not designed or intended for use or resale as on line control equipment in hazardous environments requiring fail safe performance such as in the operation of nuclear facilities aircraft navigation or communication systems air traffic control direct life support machines or weapons systems in which failure of BurninTest could lead directly to death personal injury or severe physical or environmental damage High Risk Activities PassMark and its suppliers specifically discl
224. pported CAS latencies 4 5 Minimum CAS latency time tAA 12 500 ns Minimum RAS to CAS delay time tRCD 12 500 ns Minimum row precharge time tRP 12 500 ns Minimum active to precharge time tRAS 45 000 ns Supported timing at highest clock speed 5 5 5 18 Minimum Row Active to Row Active Delay tRRD 7 500 ns Minimum Active to Auto Refresh Delay tRC 55 000 ns Minimum Recovery Delay tRFC 105 000 ns Data access time from clock tAC 0 400 ns Minimum Write Recovery time tWR 15 000 ns 1999 2012 PassMark Software Test reporting 129 Minimum Write to Read CMD Delay tWTR 7 500 ns Minimum Read to Pre charge CMD Delay tRTP 7 500 ns Address Command Setup Time Before Clock tIS 0 180 ns Address Command Hold Time After Clock tIH 0 250 ns Data Input Setup Time Before Strobe tDS 0 050 ns Data Input Hold Time After Strobe tDH 0 130 ns Maximum DQS to DQ Skew tDQSQ 0 200 ns Maximum Read Data Hold Skew tQHS 0 240 ns Supported Burst Lengths 4 8 Refresh Rate Reduced 7 8us Supports Partial Array Self Refresh No Module Height 30 0 mm DIMM 2 Memory type DDR2 SDRAM SPD revision 1 2 Manufacturer Corsair Manufacturing date Year 0 Week 0 Serial number 00000000 Part number CM2X1024 6400 Clock speed 400 0 MHz Memory size 1024 MB Number of banks 8 Row address bits 14 Column address bits 10 Bus width 64 bits Device width 8 bits Number of ranks 1 ECC No Module voltage
225. r 1999 2012 PassMark Software 160 BurninTest V7 0 10 7 e Tape Please note that we have intentionally not restricted any of the BurnInTest tests in software as some users may be able to use these tests with additional environment configuration Some system information normally displayed by BurnInTest will not be available under WinPE this includes but may not be limited to the Graphics card HDD model and USB controller device information Note that in our testing the 32 bit version of BurninTest will not run in a 64 bit WinPE environment use the 64 bit version of BurnInTest in this scenario Note A system using Microsoft WinPE will restart after 1 to 3 days depending on the version you use Reboot restart cycling BurninTest can be setup so that the PC will reboot itself in a cycle with test runs occurring between each reboot BurnInTest uses another software utility called Rebooter to reboot restart a PC Rebooter can be used from within BurninTest or it can be run by itself look for the executable called rebooter exe in the BurnInTest installation directory To use Rebooter from within BurninTest go to the BurnInTest Preferences window and then select the Post Test tab Clicking on the Reboot options button will open the Rebooter configuration window You can get additional help about Rebooter options by clicking on the help button in the Rebooter configuration window Here is a brief descrip
226. r quality shielded cables under 5m are recommended As there are many possible causes for this error it can take some investigation to find the origin of the fault The first step however should always be to remove the plug wait a few seconds then reconnect the plug USB loopback plug identified itself incorrectly The USB enumeration process succeeded but the unique identification information stored in the USB plugs EEPROM memory is incorrect Under normal conditions this should never happen The plug can not be used unless it is programmed correctly Contact PassMark Software for assistance Could not allocate RAM for USB I O buffers The system is low on memory USB device open failed The initial attempt to connect to the device failed The device might already be open and locked by another process With all the tests stopped try removing the plug waiting a few seconds then reconnecting the plug USB device reset failed Setting USB data rate failed Setting USB data characteristics failed Setting USB flow control failed Setting USB I O timeouts failed Purging of USB I O data buffers failed Set USB loopback DTR failed Set USB loopback RTS failed These errors are all very rare Normally errors will occur earlier in the initialization process and not at these steps In addition to the possible causes for errors mentioned above it is also possible that there is a software configuration problem If one of theses errors persists con
227. r second since the start of the test Errors The number of errors that have occurred i e Transmitted data does not match received data 6 19 Video play This test allows video files to be played as a BurninTest test This allows for the detection of numerous error conditions that a PC might exhibit from lack of media codec support playback errors and dropped samples reduced quality due to the PCs inability to process the video quickly enough and Bit Error Rates From the Video Playback Preferences window up to 4 video files can be selected for playback with each video being played in turn 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 1st etc The test can be run across multiple monitors Video files come in a number of different file formats and within these file formats video and audio are encoded using different compression methods The file formats supported include e Audio Video Interleaved AVI e Motion Picture Experts Group MPEG MPG The Video Compression formats supported where installed include e Cinepak e Intel Indeo e Divx e MJPEG e MPEG 1 e MPEG 4 video ISO version 1 0 Microsoft version 3 e Microsoft Windows Media Video codec version 7 0 MPEG 2 is not supported Note Each of the above formats are registered trademarks of their respective owners Sample test videos are available from the PassMark Web site By default a test window will be opened when the tests are started This will be placed on the primary 199
228. rate it with BurninTest V7 0 Up to 5 plugins can be specified PassMark has developed plugins for the following tests Touch screen testing using PassMark s MonitorTest software Modem testing using PassMark s ModemTest software Keyboard testing using PassMark s KeyboardTest software Sample software in C and C is also available to assist developing a plugin for your specific hardware 1999 2012 PassMark Software 176 12 1 6 BurninTest V7 0 Q Can I test my system without an operating system Yes A bootable CD or USB flash drive can be created with Microsoft Windows Pre install Environment WinPE and BurninTest V7 0 Professional Many BurninTest users can benefit from testing PC hardware when there is no Operating system installed or the Operating System is inoperable This can be useful for testing PC hardware 1 In a production line environment 2 That is to be shipped with Linux 3 In a known wirus free environment and 4 To try to determine the cause of corruption of an Operating System A document has been produced to assist people in setting up an environment that allows PassMark BurninTest to be used in these situations Q having trouble setting the lock pages in memory in Windows XP Windows XP security rights can be complex to set up and manage If you have followed the instructions in the help file for setting the lock pages in memory right and still have a problem try setting this right
229. rce Description SJLOG NOTE 2011 07 19 17 58 58 Status Main Tests started J LOG NOTE 2011 07 19 17 58 59 CPU SSE4a test s selected but CPU feature not detected J LOG NOTE 2011 07 19 17 58 59 3D Graphics 3D test starting Duty cycle 50 Test on primary monit CRITICAL 2011 07 19 17 59 00 USB Could not detect USB loopback plug J LOG NOTE 2011 07 19 17 59 01 Video Video test starting Duty cycle 50 Test on primary mc GUWARNING 2011 07 19 17 59 02 Parallel Configured Parallel port does not exist 4gSERIOUS 2011 07 19 17 59 01 Tape drive Could not access the tape drive selected SERIOUS 2011 07 19 17 59 02 Serial The requested COM port could not be found GUWARNING 2011 07 19 17 59 13 Parallel Configured Parallel port does not exist Ready 1999 2012 PassMark Software Understanding the display 31 The Event Log tab displays the recent errors and status messages that have occurred during a test run It is possible to save a copy of the test events using the Copy to clipboard functions the File gt Save Report menu item or in a test report using Preferences gt Logging The event window is updated in as events occur and can be left open while a test run is in progress There is no practical limit to the number of events that can be written to a test report Context sensitive popup menus are available using the mouse Right click while double clicking on an event will open the Common test error messages
230. rect3D hardware accelerator function Unavailable Direct3D hardware acceleration is not enabled on the test system By default most servers eg all Windows 2003 servers have Direct3D hardware acceleration disabled Direct83D hardware acceleration can typically be enabled from Control panel gt Display gt Settings gt Advanced gt Troubleshoot and move the Hardware acceleration slider to the right ie to increase the level of graphics hardware acceleration In some cases you will need to use the Graphics card manufacturers tool to enable Direct3D hardware acceleration Unable to create dialog for GUI test Unable to create image list for GUI test Failed Windows call GUI treeview Failed Windows call GUI listbox Failed Windows call GUI listview Failed Windows call GUI progress bar Failed Windows call GUI sliders Failed Windows call GUI check boxes Failed Windows call GUI shake test There have been an error performing the standard 2D tests of performing common Window drawing functions This could be a Windows operating system or graphics card problem Not enough packets sent to verify error ratio During the Standard network test if an error is detected but there has been insufficient testing to reach a level of confidence as to whether the set packet sent error ratio has been reached then this error is raised instead of the ratio error Test control message error 1999 2012 PassMark Software There has been
231. rectory that the script is located in Overview REBOOT reboots the computer After the computer boots up and BurninTest restarts the script will continue to execute at the line following the REBOOT command REBOOTEND reboots the computer After the computer boots up BurninTest will restart but the script will no longer continue to execute Example MESSAGE Run some 3D tests RUN 3D MESSAGE Reboot for the first time REBOOT MESSAGE Run some 2D tests RUN 2D MESSAGE Reboot for the second time 1999 2012 PassMark Software BurninTest V7 0 REBOOT MESSAGE And now one final reboot REBOOTEND MESSAGE This message will never be displayed Note It is recommended to use Accumulate logs when using REBOOT and REBOOTEND RUN COMMAND Syntax RUN lt Test Name gt Parameters lt Test Name gt See below for a list of all test names Examples Run the CD test with the current settings RUN CD Run all the tests in the current configuration simultaneously RUN CONFIG lt Test Name gt Parameter The test name parameter can takes the following values The first value CONFIG is special because it does not refer to the name of an individual test When used with the RUN command it causes all tests in the current configuration file to be started simultaneously CONFIG CPU or MATHS CD DISK MEMORY NETWORK PARALLEL PRINTER SERIAL SOUND TAPE USB 2D 1999 2012 PassMark So
232. result summary 2 Yes normal TRACELEVEL Trace file detail level the trace file format will be set to text 1 No no trace 2 A1 Activity trace 1 1999 2012 PassMark Software Test automation and productivity 1 3 A2 Activity trace 2 SUM Summarize YES NO LINES Max file size Maximum number of lines PERIODIC Periodic result summary logging interval Value in minutes FILE Pre test logging Options 1 NEW Clear the test result and create a new log file 2 APPEND Clear the test result and append the next test to the existing log file 3 ACCUMULATE Accumulate test result across test runs and append to existing log Examples SETLOG LOG yes NAME file1 html PREFIX computername TIME yes SETLOG REPORT html REPORT cert LOGLEVEL yes TRACELEVEL a2 SUM yes LINES 10000 SETLOG PERIODIC 2 FILE append Notes For convenience the BurninTest V6 0 syntax for SETLOG is still supported however new scripts should not use the V6 0 syntax SETLOG COMMAND Syntax SETLOG lt Filename gt Parameters The name of the log file The file name must be enclosed in double quotes lt Filename gt SETERRORS COMMAND Overview Sets the errors test preferences Syntax SETERRORS ACTION lt parameter gt WINDOWS lt parameter gt Parameters 1999 2012 PassMark Software 150 BurninTest V7 0 ACTION Action on Error 1 CONTINUE 2 SOUND Play sound and continue 3 BEEP System beep and continue
233. rflow and that this mechanism is tested Extension instructions x86 extensions This test exercises extensions to the x86 CPU instruction set for a variety of applications such as multimedia e 3DNow This test exercises and verifies correct operation of CPU 3DNow instructions including a sample of moving 3DNow registers adding subtracting and multiplying Known and random data sets are used to exercise and verify correct operation Data sets are pairs of 32 bit floats eg x y where x and y are 32 bit floats e MMX As above but for MMX instructions Instructions include moving MMX registers adding subtracting and multiplying Data set 64 bit data sets are used e SSE As above but for SSE instructions Instructions include moving SSE registers adding subtracting and multiplying Data set groups of 4 x 32 bit floats e g a b c d where a b c and d are 32 bit floats e SSE2 As for the SSE test but for SSE2 instructions Data set pairs of 64 bit floats e g x y where x y are 64 bit floats e SSE3 As for the SSE2 test but for SSE3 instructions Data set pairs of 64 bit floats e SSE4 1 As for the SSE3 test but for SSE4 1 Instructions include a sample of moving registers and multiplication Data set pairs of 64 bit integers e SSE4 2 As for the SSE4 1 test but for SSE4 2 instructions Instructions include CRC helper functions Data set pairs of 32 bit integers e SSE4a As for the SSE4 1 test but for SSE
234. ritical section of code What can you do about these types of bugs Almost nothing as a user They have plagued software since the first line of code was written they are very difficult problems to find and are almost never picked up during software testing Problems can occur in drivers the operating system your hardware everywhere As everyone is always on a tight deadline endurance testing often doesn t make it into a software developers test plan Mundane program bugs are of course also a major cause of failure Fault finding Once you find a fault there are a number of things that can be done to determine the cause of the fault that should enable you to fix the problem The information that should be collected and the actions to take will depend on the nature of the problem The main types of faults are e System restart or crash Blue Screen Of Death or system instability and e BurnlinTest reported errors Finding the cause of a fault generally relies on finding information about the fault and performing a series of tests that help to narrow down the possible causes to for example a specific hardware component or device driver 1999 2012 PassMark Software Collecting information to help narrow down the cause of a fault General BurninTest reporting will provide information about the test failure A description of the BurninTest reported errors are shown in the Common error messages section Generally the system component t
235. rive threshold 0 0 MB Sec NA No threshold warning e Plug in test Duty cyde override or leave blank to accept default SMART options e Parallel port test Run self test and log SMART errors 7 Log bad sector increase Post test actions Pre test actions ok cancel Hp Printer test RAM test Serial port test Sound test Tape test Temperature and Battery monitoring USB test Video playback test Preferences editor The test preference Windows allow the configuration for the current system or similar systems In general it does not provide the option to configure the testing of hardware that does not exist on the 1999 2012 PassMark Software Selecting Test Preferences 77 system being used and it will validate the user settings e g that input test files exist Some users need to create test configuration files for a large variety of systems including for hardware that does not exist on the system being used BurninTest can be started in a special Preferences editor mode to allow the creation of BurnlInTest configuration files for hardware that does not exist on the current system e g configure a hard disk to be tested that is not on the system being used Specifically when specifying the command line parameter Y e CPU instructions not supported on the current system can be selected for testing e All HDD drive letters A Z and physical disk numbers 0 50 are displayed and can be configure
236. rk Software 6 7 6 8 Test descriptions Monitor EMC testing Applicable to BurninTest Pro version only BurninTest can be used to help with Electromagnetic Compliance Testing EMC to ANSI standard C63 4 1992 Section 11 1 3 of this standard details the requirements for testing of Visual Display Units In brief this standard requires that screens of scrolling H characters be displayed while EMC testing takes place The monitor and the image displayed need to be adjusted by the tester in order to maximize the electromagnetic output of the monitor e g by selecting maximum brightness and white text on a black background BurninTest provides the ability to display a screen of Scrolling H characters and the possibility to adjust The color of the text The color of the background The Scroll speed via the duty cycle window slide bar The character used as a replacement for H The font face and font size The 2D Graphics preferences window can be used to either select the standard 2D graphics load test or the EMC testing scrolling H pattern When activated the Scrolling H pattern fills the entire screen but Alt Tab can be used to switch back to the main Window or other applications Scrolling only takes place when the test window is the active window If there are multiple displays the Scrolling H s will fill all displays Network test BurninTest provides two different network tests The
237. rmance and system crashes The old saying of you get what you pay for seems especially true for video cards Beware Q have a ATI Radeon video card and after running for a while the system hangs There are particular drivers versions from ATI that have known bugs in them So try either older or newer versions ATI seem to put out a new set of drivers every second week so we have given up trying to track their versions numbers Q get the error 2D graphics Failed Windows call Bitmaps and have a Matrox or nVidia video card This error was seen on a Matrox Millenium G550 with drivers 5 82 18 0 20 02 2002 running on XP When the screen saver starts up this error occurs This is a bug in the device driver Newer drivers from Matrox will hopefully correct this problem Otherwise you will need to disable the Window screen saver before running BurninTest Update This problem was also seen with some versions of the nVidia video card drivers Q BurnInTest crashes with rubbish on the screen or a black screen when the monitor powersave feature turns on after X minutes of running Some video cards device drivers seem to have a bug that causes this crash when the monitor goes into powersave mode If you disable the monitor powersave feature from the Power Management window in the Windows Control panel this resolves the problem The main offender seems to be the Maxtrox G400 video card We have had only 1 report of this problem so it does
238. rnatively it can be set to only increment when the specified error ratio is exceeded When the specified error ratio is exceeded the ratio is reset to zero to avoid triggering a continuous stream of errors Thus the ratio value displayed is the ratio of bad errors to total packets attempted to be sent since the last time the threshold was crossed For the purposes of detecting a crossing of the threshold and signaling an error the ratio is ignored until a sufficient number of packets have been attempted to be sent to make the ratio valid For example if the ratio is set to 2 at least 50 packets must be attempted to be sent before the ratio is deemed to be valid If the ratio is set to 0 1 at least 1000 packets must be attempted to be sent before the ratio is deemed to be valid If errors are detected but there has been an insufficient number of packets attempted to be sent then a warning will be raised at the end of the test run Compatibility issues See Test Preferences window 6 9 Advanced network test Applicable to BurninTest Pro version only Overview The Advanced Network test allows stability and load testing of up to 12 Network Interfaces NICs on a system running BurninTest The Advanced Network test is a peer to peer TCP IP test of NICs using various parameters and load settings BurnlnTest is capable of detecting the presence of remote machines on the same network segment that are running EndPoint software i e all End
239. ronment after testing or passing results to another application to have it perform another step in the system validation process To see how to run an application from BurninTest after testing and what parameters e g RESULT can be passed to this application please see Post Test preferences Installing BurninTest to a USB drive or an optical disk It is possible to install BurninTest Professional onto a USB drive or CD DVD BD such that no installation is required on the test system This can be useful in a number of scenarios such as field staff testing PC s without installing BurnInTest on the test system When running BurninTest this way there will be no files left on the PC after BurninTest has finished The procedure is the same for optical disks but as it is not writeable for log files logging should be either turned off or specified to be on a writeable drive You can also get more sophisticated by having multiple test configurations there is some information about this in the online help file When BurnInTest is run from a removable drive when installed in this way the default directory for the users files like reports and the configuration file is the BurninTest directory rather than the normal default directory of the users Documents directory The command line parameter p required in V5 x in this scenario is now turned on automatically and is no longer required for a USB drive installation Installing BurnInTest to a USB dri
240. rts We believe that this plug will work with all styles of parallel ports Data bit 0 Least significant bit 1999 2012 PassMark Software Test hardware 167 eo Out Data bit 4 To make the loop back plug the following pins need to be connected together Data 0 and Error status Pin 2 amp 15 Data 1 and Select status 3 amp 13 Data 2 and Paper out status 4 amp 12 Data 3 and Acknowledge status 5 amp 10 Data 4 and Busy status 6 amp 11 This diagram shows the connections that need to be made It s the rear view of the male DB 25 connector that s required for the plug The red lines and grey dots show the connections that need to be made Male DB 25 connector Rear view 11 6 Serial loop back plugs Applicable to BurnInTest Pro version only You can purchase high quality molded loop back plugs from PassMark or you can make your own A loop back plug is a small connector that plugs into the serial port on your S computer in order to loop the data output line into the data input line It also sets a few control lines to trick the computer into thinking that an external device is connected to the port You ll find below the instructions for making your own serial port loop back plug These plugs are designed to be plugged into the small 9 pin serial ports on your computer In conjunction with software such as BurninTest they allow the testing of the port 1999 2012 PassMark Software 168 BurninT
241. ry in the system cache showing as a disk error Also when the RAM test is run individually the allocation of test RAM is more aggressive and thus more RAM is tested For example when the RAM test is run individually it will more aggressively take system cache and test this RAM The Memory pre test will override the duty cycle setting for the pre test phase of the test and set the memory duty cycle to 100 The user selected duty cycle will be used after the memory pre test during the main set of tests During the memory pre test all test patterns will be tested for one cycle each 1999 2012 PassMark Software 102 BurninTest V7 0 The test duration and number of test cycles of the RAM pre test is included in the overall test duration and number of cycles For example if the overall test duration is set for 60 minutes and the RAM pre test takes 15 minutes then the main set of tests will run for 45 minutes after the memory pre test Multi process torture test settings 32 bit Pro version only The number of test processes to start and the percentage of total RAM that each process will use can be specified in this section It should be noted that setting more than 100 of RAM for testing will force the testing of the paging mechanism i e swapping pages from memory to disk due to over allocation of memory This can make the system unresponsive especially if run with other BurninTest tests Logging settings Turning the Log memory al
242. ry test tests the reliability of the RAM installed in the computer As BurninTest runs within windows some of the available RAM is being used by windows and any other applications running Any memory that is not already in active use will be tested by the Memory test The Memory test works by writing a pattern numbers in the RAM then verifying the numbers read from the RAM match this sequence The pattern used can change automatically from one cycle to the next 1999 2012 PassMark Software so BurninTest V7 0 Possible test patterns are 4 Sequence 0 1 2 2 Binary 1 10101010 3 Binary 2 01010101 4 Zeros 00000000 5 Ones 11111111 6 Cell adjacency test See RAM test preferences The Test pattern may be selected to be one of the above test patterns Alternatively the default Cyclic setting will cycle through each of the test patterns The total amount of free RAM is displayed in the Memory Test Window Some memory is always left available to avoid Out of Memory Errors and disk thrashing caused by Windows swapping to disk The MBs Written and MBs Verified fields on the Memory Test Window are cumulative since the start of the test and can be greater than the size of the installed RAM For the Memory test a cycle is defined to be the number of times the above 3 step sequence is completed The operations count represents the number of bytes read or written It should be noted that not all R
243. s The number of errors that have been encountered while the test has been executing This value should normally stay at zero A value of greater than zero indicates there has been an error in the hardware or the software controlling the hardware In some cases it is possible for the computer to self detect an error such as the math s and disk tests In other cases the user must check themselves that no error has occurred e g Is there sound coming from the speakers Are printouts complete clear and legible Last error description This is the description of the last error that occurred This will give some indication as to the cause of the error See Common Errors for a description of the errors that may be encountered View error by categories Toggles the Results tab main display between the following two error table views 1 Number of error and last error description per Test Name and 2 Number of errors for each category per Test Name that is CRITICAL SERIOUS WARNING AND INFORMATION View error description To view a description of the error double click on the error description and the error descriptions in the help file will be shown Event Log i BurninTest V7 0 Pr File Edit Configuration Test Quick Tests Help a Sp g gt 4 AD Current configuration v gt H 2 System Information Burn In Results Event Log Temperature Event Log for PASSMARKI2500K Severity Date Time Sou
244. s PASS 0 No errors See also Detailed error log Test preferences Logging 1999 2012 PassMark Software Test reporting 121 9 5 Example HTML log BurnInTest results BurnInTest Version V7 0 Pro 0000 Date 05 18 11 17 06 21 Logging level Normal System summary System summary Windovs 7 Ultimate Edition build 7600 64 bit 1 x Intel R Core TM i5 CPU 750 2 67GHz 4 0GB RAM ATI Radeon HD 3450 466GB HDD CD RW DVDRW BD HD DVD ROM General System Name COREIS System Model GBTUACPI BIOS Manufacturer GBT 42302e31 BIOS Release Date 2009 08 01 1999 2012 PassMark Software 122 BurninTest V7 0 CPU CPU manufacturer GenuineIntel CPU Type Intel R Core TM i5 CPU 750 2 67GHz Codename Lynnfield CPUID Family 6 Model 1E Stepping 5 Revision Bi Socket LGA1156 Lithography 45nm Physical CPU s 1 Cores per CPU 4 Hyperthreading Disabled CPU features MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE4 1 SSE4 2 DEP PAE Intel64 VMX SMX Turbo Clock frequencies Measured CPU speed 2665 2 MHz Turbo 3198 2MHz Multiplier 20 0 Turbo x24 0 Base Clock 133 3 MHz Muliplier range Min x9 Max non turbo x20 Turbo 4C x21 3C x21 2C x24 1C x24 Cache per CPU package Li Instruction Cache 4x32 KB Li data cache 4x32 KB L2 cache 4 x 256 KB L3 cache 8 MB TDP Limit 95 Watts TDC limit 89 Amps 1999 2012 PassMark Software Memory Total Physical Memory Available Physical Memory
245. s XP and above a window prompting the user to take some action is displayed even if the CD is just a data CD and can not be played The behavior can be prevented by selecting the block removable storage auto play option in the CD preferences window For this feature to work the following conditions must be meet The main window of BurninTest must be the active foreground window Internet explorer version 4 0 or above must be installed The auto play feature must not already be disabled by some other means e g changes to the registry Note In some cases it is also possible to block the auto play function by holding down the shift key when a disc is inserted This is a feature of Windows and not BurninTest Using the Registry to Disable Auto Run Auto play Experts only There are two registry values that can be used to persistently disable Auto Run NoDriveAutoRun and NoDriveTypeAutoRun The first value disables Auto Run for specified drive letters and the second disables Auto Run for a class of drives If either of these values is set to disable Auto Run for a particular device it will be disabled Note The NoDriveAutoRun and NoDriveTypeAutoRun values should only be modified by system administrators to change the value for the entire system for testing or administrative purposes Applications such as BurnInTest should not modify these values as there is no way to reliably restore them to their original values The NoDriveA
246. s in the root directory of the disk under test Error while writing to the disk The test file could not be completely written to the disk This could indicate a hardware error or a sudden lack of free disk space Error writing to disk Disk is full The test file could not be completely written to disk because the selected hard drive is full 1999 2012 PassMark Software 186 BurninTest V7 0 Test file could not be re opened The test file was created successfully but could not be reopened for verification This could indicate a hardware error or a resource problem within Windows Error while reading from the disk The test file created on the disk can no longer be read This could indicate a hardware error or a problem within windows Data Verify failure This is a serious error that indicates that the data read from the disk is NOT the same as the data that was written to the disk This could indicate a hardware error Disk is full or FAT root file system limit reached A test file could not be created on the disk being tested because the disk is full or the capacity of the file system has been exhausted Normally this error only happens when the disk is formatted using the old FAT files system Floppy disks still use the old FAT file system and there is a limited number of files that can be created in the root directory of a floppy disk The number of files depends on the length of each file name and does NOT depend on avai
247. s of the disk test for all removable disk volumes excluding floppy disks Once a disk has been tested it will wait for all other disks to complete the single test pass Once all local disks have been tested once the test will end A HTML log file called Removable_Disk_ lt timestamp gt log is created in the default directory See Disk test User defined Quick Tests User defined Quick Tests are only available with BurninTest Professional only User defined Quick Tests can be added to the menu by including BurninTest Scripts bits in i the bit exe directory e g C Program Files BurnInTest and ii the current default directory e g C Users lt UserName gt Documents PassMark BurninTest where lt UserName gt is the administrator account that BurninTest is run under The maximum number of User defined Quick Tests is 25 Help 1999 2012 PassMark Software 24 BurninTest V7 0 5 2 Help Opens this help file Context related help is available from most windows using the F1 key Purchase Software Opens the default browser at the PassMark Secure Online Store Enter License Key Allows entry of Username and Key received via email to license BurnInTest See this online step by step guide for help Note Your license key information should be kept in a safe place in case the software ever needs to be reinstalled You may also require it when software upgrades are released PassMark Homepage Opens the defaul
248. s to automate the start of BurninTest with certain test configurations and parameters Scripting a series of tests with different test configurations Externally controlling BurnInTest from another application and controlling other applications from BurninTest Installing BurninTest Professional onto a USB flash drive such that no BurninTest installation is required on the test system Using BurnIinTest to test PC hardware when there is no Operating System installed on the system Using BurnInTest to test across system reboots Shortcut hot keys and Some support for non English character sets Maintaining multiple configurations If you are in the business to testing many different computers then you may benefit from maintaining different test configuration By saving a particular configuration to a file you can avoid resetting all the parameters each time BurninTest is used with a different computer setup A configuration file contains all the parameters available in the test duty cycles and test preferences windows The saving and loading of configuration files can be done from the menu options Load Test Configuration and Save Test Configuration As Configuration files can also be used from the command line You can drag and drop a configuration file into BurninTest Configuration files normally end in the extension bitcfg For example the current configuration is stored automatically in the file LastUsed bi
249. s to the number of bytes sent and received The duty cycle affects the time spent waiting between cycles Each plug also has its own serial number stored in EEPROM on the plug so it is possible to identify each plug when multiple plugs are connected USB 2 0 loopback plugs are firmware controlled and upgradeable The USB test sends data to the USB loopback plug in e USB 1 loopback plug 2KB blocks The USB loopback plug receives this data checks the cyclic redundancy checksum is correct and then re encodes the data before sending it back to the PC e USB 2 0 loopback plug 0 5KB blocks The USB loopback plug receives this data copies it to a new buffer and transmits it back to the PC The PC compares the data in the block for an exact match and then builds a new packet of random data bytes before sending it back to the PC Any differences between the data send and received is flagged as an error As the low level USB protocol has some ability to detect errors and re transmit bad data it is important to pay attention to the transfer speed A low transfer speed may be an indicator of an intermittent or partial hardware fault With the USB 2 0 loopback plug an error LED will be lit when more than a defined number of recoverable bus errors occur currently set to 4 Note The USB2Test software wil report the number of recoverable bus errors per block A lack of high quality cabling within or external to the PC is a typical cause of retransm
250. s which are echoed back by the modem Version of Plugin required PassMark ModemTest V1 3 1010 or higher Test name within BurnInTest displays and reports Modem Test information displayed in BurnInTest Status text number of operations errors and cycles error text and severity Application field should be set to ModemTest exe p lt COM port number gt lt Results file name gt lt Config file gt Where p specifies ModemTest to run as a plugin in local diagnostic mode 1999 2012 PassMark Software BurninTest V7 0 lt COM port number gt is the serial port the Modem is associated with lt Results file name gt is a ModemTest specific result file lt Config file gt is a ModemTest specific configuration file e g C Program Files ModemTest ModemTest exe p 1 results log C Program Files ModemTest ModemTest cfg Note any arguments that contain a directory path must be enclosed in quotation marks Run as pre test plugin should be unchecked Notes 3 You should install ModemTest before starting 4 You should license ModemTest so that the Welcome window is not displayed when the BurninTest tests are started 5 You should set up a configuration file and save it in the ModemTest directory before starting Keyboard testing When PassMark s KeyboardTest is used as a BurnInTest Plugin it tests in the Batch mode without collecting the manually entered information such as Keyboard Serial number This m
251. s would represent 6 cycles Duty cycle sets the amount of delay between each of the video files played Error reporting may be configured not to report reduced quality of Video playback dropped samples errors This can be achieved by editing the Error Classifications file BITErrorClassifications txt for Error Number 182 to NONE For example changing the line from 182 Video Playback is dropping samples WARNING to 182 Video Playback is dropping samples NONE 1999 2012 PassMark Software BurninTest V7 0 7 Test selection and duty cycles lest configuration and duty cycles Auto Stop after 15 Minutes oF 0 Cycles 0 means oun forever CPU Math 7 al 2D Graphics 7 Es CD AW OVD F 0 3D Graphics DA CPU SIMD 0 Disk s E Printer 7 0 Sound RAM fY 20 Hetmak 7 Com Pols 7 20 f Paral Por uss Pugin Select the bests to pavtoim and thee Duty cycle 1 Min load 100 Max load MOn aot ReretDeteur The Test selection and duty cycles window allows e The test auto stop condition to be set This is based on a test duration and or a number of test cycles e The individual tests e g CPU to be selected or de selected and e The load of each test to be set in a range from 1 to 100 the duty cycle The options for Tape Serial Parallel USB port and Plug in testing will only be displayed in the professional version Auto Stop BurninTest can be se
252. se of BurninTest Professional directly to the physical disk e g physical disk 1 not using a file system like NTFS The physical disk test is available on unformatted disks and formatted disks that do not contain Windows installations or paging files On systems without an Operating System i e when using Bootable BurninTest or WinPE only unformatted disks are supported for the physical disk test By default drive C is used for the hard disk but this can be changed from the Preferences Dialog and up to 50 drives can be selected for simultaneous testing From this 50 it is possible to select combinations of available floppy disks hard disks and flash drives Drives can be connected via the IDE bus SATA eSATA SCSI USB Firewire or any other method supported by Windows How the tests work The user can select one of the following test modes or choose to automatically cycle between the patterns This selection is done in the preferences window Possible test modes are e Default Cyclic e Sequential data pattern 0 1 2 255 e Random data with random seeking e High Low frequency data overwrite 10101 then 00001 e Butterfly seeking 1999 2012 PassMark Software a BurninTest V7 0 e Binary data pattern 1 10101010 e Binary data pattern 2 01010101 e Zeros data pattern 00000000 e Ones data pattern 11111111 e Random data pattern e Quick physical drive test BurnInTest Professional only During each test cycle ex
253. section only is not selected the default and typical selection the full results section of the window will be saved including any part of the results that is currently not displayed in the window i e Result information that you need to scroll down to If Visible section only is selected the full visible Window as it appears on the screen including menu bar button bar border etc will be saved If result data is now visible i e Result information that you need to scroll down to then this will not be saved Preparing a Customer Test Certificate A Test Certificate is a report targeted at your customer It includes your company details Technician information System summary Result summary and a Certification statement The report would typically be created after a test run It is produced by i selecting File gt Save report menu and the Test Certificate option or ii selecting Configuration gt Test Preferences gt Logging tab and selecting a Report type of Customer certificate The Test Certificate is a HTML template This HTML template will need to be modified with your company s details The items in the report that are specific to your customer and likely to change frequently can be modified from Configuration gt Edit gt Report information This is the Customer s Name and Technician s 1999 2012 PassMark Software Test reporting name The items in the report that are specific to your company and unl
254. sound effects are enabled and require more CPU power than is available Error playing video s audio stream During video playback the audio stream within the video file failed to be played A more specific description of the error will also be displayed with this error message depending on the reason 1999 2012 PassMark Software BurninTest V7 0 12 4 for the failure Temperature threshold exceeded The temperature of a specified hardware source e g CPU hard disk or GPU has exceeded the configured threshold Check the temperature threshold is reasonable for this type of hardware Check that the hardware cooling is working e g CPU GPU and case fans Where possible and appropriate the CPU heatsink should be checked that it is properly seated on the CPU with thermal grease The self test routine was aborted by the host The self test routine was interrupted by the host wth a hardware or software reset The self test routine was stopped due to a fatal or unknown error The last self test routine completed wth a failure of an unknown test element The last self test routine completed wth a failure of the electrical element The last self test routine completed wth a failure of the servo and or seek test element The last self test routine completed wth a failure of the read element The last self test routine completed wth a failure due to handling damage The vendor self drive test built into the drive has reported one of these err
255. splayed Note 1 that the 2nd port in the list has a USB2 0 loopback plug attached but the port only supports USB1 and hence only the lower maximum speed of 12Mb s is available and displayed 2 This is not a bench marked speed but based on the protocol the plug has been able to connect to the PC with 3 Benchmarking speed can be undertaken using the USB2Test software The text after the Maximum Speed is the description of the device that was found in the memory of the plug This text will normally be USB Loopback plug for a USB1 loopback device and PASSMARK USB2Test for a USB2 0 loopback plug The serial number is a unique identification number that is different for each plug A typical serial number would be PMK5COKV This unique serial number is stored in the plug For USB2 0 loopback plugs the version of the firmware is then displayed See the USB port test for more details Refresh list Select this option to detect all of the USB 2 0 Loopback plug currently connected to the system PassMark USB 1 x loopback plug transmission timeout Only applies to the USB1 loopback plug The user may specify the transmission timeout in milliseconds If a reply hasn t been received after this time an error will be logged Video playback Select video playback files Video file 1 4 The Video Playback preferences window allows you to specify up to 4 video files These may be typed directly into each of the 4 edit boxes ful
256. st data to be created 1999 2012 PassMark Software 196 BurninTest V7 0 Insufficient system resources to complete test The test e g CD Disk or USB was not able to be run as there was not sufficient memory for the test data to be created Unable to create CD test data Error creating a test image that is to be written to the CD This may be caused by insufficient space on the Hard disk drive or insufficient privileges to the location specified in Preferences Unable to initialize for CD burning Error retrieving information about the CD drive to test Unable to open CD test data Error opening test data image that is to be written to the CD This may be an access violation issue Unable to select CD recorder for test CD drive Error preparing for CD burn test Typically the test CD drive was not found Unable to Burn CD There has been an error starting the CD burn test The most common reasons are hardware faults unsupported media e g CD R DVD R DVD RW the CD drive is not a burner Additional information should be displayed in the log file A level 1 trace log may also provide additional information Video Playback is dropping samples The video playback test has dropped video frames This is typically caused by the system load being too high for the video playback test to be able to handle the display of all video frames This error can be ignored by changing the BITErrorClassification txt file in the BurninTest d
257. st will continue correctly thereafter Update2 We have one report that with Gigabyte motherboards you need the latest VIA chip set drivers to get the parallel port test working Q For the parallel port test the detailed log file indicates some errors which are not indicated in the main window of the BurninTest Why If a byte is read from the parallel port and it is determined to be wrong then there is a 2nd attempt to read the same byte at least 10ms after the 1st attempt If the 2nd attempt gets the right value then there is no error reported in the main window If the 2nd attempt also gets a wrong value then the error count in the main window is incremented In the case of corrupted data being received during the parallel port test the following information is included in the log file Sent the byte value sent to the parallel loopback plug Rec the byte value returned from the parallel loopback plug Att Read Attempt 1 or 2 see above RawByte When a byte is read from the pins on the parallel port the bits are in the wrong order This is the RawByte After the bits are put back in their correct order then they should match the Sent byte This is displayed mainly for our debugging purposes Q get the error No permission to open RAW network socket with the Network test You need to have administrator privleges to run this test Access to raw sockets is granted on a per transport basis For the address family AF_INET only
258. standard network test and the advanced network test The standard network test is included in both the Standard and Professional editions of BurnInTest while the Advanced network test is included in the Professional edition This section describes the Standard network test The Standard network test The Standard network test tests your networking hardware and software This is done by sending special ICMP_ECHO message using the Internet Control Message Protocol ICMP The ICMP_ECHO message is more commonly known as a ping This message is echoed but to your computer by a remote host This allows the reliability of the network connection to be determined There are 4 test modes the first test mode tests to the Internal loopback The other 3 test modes test all network physical ports all ethernet only or 802 11 only Up to 12 remote hosts and hence 12 local network ports can be selected by setting the Destination Network address in the Test Preferences window These values are used for the Network test Each one must be a URL or an IP address or left blank A URL is the name of a network host e g www hostname com An IP address is a sequence of numbers that correspond to a network host e g 169 192 0 1 IPv4 and IPV6 on Vista and later can be tested The host selected must be accessible from the computer and capable of responding to the ping command PassMark recommends the selection of a local host to minimize data link prob
259. stem however Computers can have a Random Crash What do we mean by this Many things can bring down a computer Typical things would be a spike on the power line a strong burst of Electromagnetic interference e g Mobile phones electric motors etc If your system is running at its limits due to overclocking or your components are running at the top of their temperature range small external influences can push your system over the edge resulting in a terrible death If you believe in Chaos theory and most scientists now do then you also have to believe that computers will just crash unexpected from time to time how often would depend on the design tolerances built into your hardware What can you do about this Do as the military do Buy military specification computer hardware that has higher tolerances Do what NASA does Run 3 computers at the same time expecting one to give the wrong answer or crash Do what most big banks do Run a hot standby system that can takeover the job of the main computer in a few seconds Do what the Telecommunications industry does Buy equipment with N 1 redundancy and switch traffic off the faulty hardware Almost all Telecommunications hardware also has a built in Auto reboot function Why because they know it will eventually fail Timing issue Some software hardware bugs only show up in very very rare occasions Classic examples of this are Hardware or Software Interrupts occurring in a c
260. sub categories of the CPU test are e General purpose instructions x86 e Floating Point Unit FPU instructions x87 e CPU extension instructions x86 extensions The specific extension instructions may be selected MMX 3DNow SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSE4 1 SSE4 2 and SSE4a e Prime number test e Maximum heat test The numbers displayed in the test window for this test represent how many millions of CPU operations have been performed and verified Each different math s test is run for half a second After all tests have been run the cycle count is incremented The duty cycle and the CPU speed determine how many operations can be processed during the half second period Note however that if only the Maximum heat test is selected then the duty cycle is set to 100 and a single cycle is defined to be 1 trillion CPU operations By default a CPU test is run on each CPU core The number of CPU tests running a particular sub category is shown in the test window in the Threads column The number of CPUs Packages x cores x threads that can be tested is up to 256 where supported by the Operating System That is CPUs across multiple processor groups can be tested see Note 2 below It is possible to raise an error on a user defined CPU temperature threshold being exceeded It is also possible to automatically stop testing in this scenario The sub categories of this test are described below General purpose instructions This test e
261. t 11 3 FireWire For FireWire port testing PassMark suggest using an External Hard Disk with a FireWire interface and the BurninTest disk test 11 4 Optical drive test media High Quality Data CDs Dual Layer DVDs and Dual Layer BDs for Testing CD DVD and Blu ray Drives _ This optical drive test media set can be used to help diagnose troubleshoot and load test your PC s Blu ray Disc BD Drives DVD Drives and CD Drives The Optical Drive Test o e Media set contains a Test CD a Test DVD and a Test BD When used with the BurninTest w oftware package you can e Check that your CD DVD and Blu ray Disc drives can read data and seek between files e Benchmark the speed of your optical drives using a standardized disc e Check that your CD DVD and Blu ray Disc drives can read data at both extremities of the disc the inner and outer edges e Check every bit of data read from the CD DVD and BD is 100 correct e Check that your DVD drives can correctly read both the top and bottom layers of a dual layer DVD e Check that your BD drives can correctly read both the top and bottom layers of a dual layer BD and e Verify BD DVD and CD drive transfer speeds The Test BD is a world first for the effective testing of Blu ray Disc Drives It is a dual layer disc offering 50GB of storage The Test DVD is a DVD 9 which means that it is a single sided double layered disc offering 8 5GB of storage The Test CD contains 700MB of data All
262. t The disk has been found to either be a fixed drive i e not a removable drive has partitions on it or has Windows files on it and hence the test will not run This is a precaution to avoid destroying data on a local fixed disk with the raw disk test Either remove the partitions on the disk only if you understand the implications of doing so and re test or change the test configuration to remove this physical disk from the test configuration This error is not related to testing disk volumes e g C testing a disk volume will not destroy disk data The physical drive does not exist on this system Check settings A physical disk e g disk number 2 has been selected for testing with the raw disk test The disk has either not been found on the system or the partition information could not be determined This is a precaution to avoid destroying data on a disk with the raw disk test Either remove the partitions on the disk only if you understand the implications of doing so and re test or change the test configuration to remove this physical disk from the test configuration This error is not related to testing disk volumes e g C testing a disk volume will not destroy disk data Bluetooth not supported Check your Bluetooth adapter Unable to set up a Bluetooth test on the system This can be due to Bluetooth not being supported on the system or the Bluetooth adapter not being correctly installed Check that the 1999 2012
263. t and comes standard with all new versions of Windows Some video cards don t support hardware acceleration at high color depths and you may have to reduce the color depth to 16bit color to get the test to run Note A display monitor is required for this test Warning A number of manufactures produce video cards have very poor software support for 3D graphics DirectX This is especially the case for the cheaper bottom of the range video cards Poor drivers can result in strange visual artifacts appearing on the screen poor 3D performance and system crashes The old saying of you get what you pay for seems especially true for video cards Bluetooth The Bluetooth test allows a systems Bluetooth adapter to be tested with a remote Bluetooth device e The Bluetooth test can be turned on or off in preferences The remote Bluetooth device name is to be specified in Preferences if no device name is specified the test assumes the first remote Bluetooth device found is to be used for the test This allows for automation when multiple remote Bluetooth devices are detected e The Bluetooth test will run at the same time as the other tests selected e g CPU and will have 3 stages 1 Search for Bluetooth devices already paired devices and devices in range 2 Request the specified or first remote Bluetooth device service profiles and 3 For the duration of the test continuously connect and disconnect to the File transfer s
264. t browser at the PassMark website home page Check Updates Checks whether there is a later version of BurninTest available from the PassMark website About Displays Version and License information about the currently installed version of BurninTest Pop up Menu Options Context sensitive popup menus are available from the main window tabs using the mouse Right click Depending on the current tab shown the options are System Information tab Copy Image to Clipboard Copies the System Information display to the clipboard in an Bitmap Format bmp The results can then be pasted as a graphical image into other documents that support this format e g Microsoft Word Copy Text and HTML Summary to Clipboard Copies the System summary section of the System Information to the clipboard in a text and HTML format Copy Text and HTML to Clipboard Copies the System Information to the clipboard in a text and HTML format Burn In Results tab Copy Image to Clipboard Copies the Results display to the clipboard in an Bitmap Format bmp Copy Text and HTML to Clipboard 1999 2012 PassMark Software Understanding the display 25 Copies the Results to the clipboard in a text and HTML format Clear All Results Clear the results produced so far resetting all values to zero Event Log tab Copy Image to Clipboard Copies the Events display to the clipboard in an Bitmap Format bmp Copy Text and HTML to Clipboard Copies t
265. t default directory e g My Documents lt UserName gt PassMark BumInTest where lt UserName gt is the administrator account that BurninTest is run under or the bit exe directory e g C Program Files BurnInTest A loaded configuration file will over write all preferences currently selected Examples Load the low load configuration file that we created earlier LOAD C ConfigurationFiles LowLoad bitcfg LOG COMMAND Overview Writes text to the detailed error and status log history Syntax LOG lt Text gt Parameters Text The text to be added to the detailed error and status log history Examples Start an S1 sleep and log the start and stop times LOG Sleep S1 Duration 60 seconds starting EXECUTEWAIT SLEEPER S1 D 60 LOG Sleep S1 Duration 60seconds complete LOOP Syntax LOOP lt number of iterations gt 1999 2012 PassMark Software Test automation and productivity 139 lt Tasks to repeat gt Parameters lt number of iterations gt The number of times the Tasks within brackets will be repeated Examples LOG Start SETDURATION 1 LOOP 3 LOG CPU Test RUN CPU MESSAGE COMMAND Syntax MESSAGE lt Message Text gt Parameters lt Message Text gt A single line of text that will be displayed in a window with an OK button The user must click on the OK button to continue with the script Examples MESSAGE Insert the test disc into the DVD drive then click on OK to proceed
266. t easy Check with your hardware manufacturer s from time to time in case they have released new software that fixes some problems they may have found The hardware components that in general have the most problems with their Driver software are Video cards especially the 3D functions Sound cards and CDs e By using the Network test you can test both your computer and the network it is connected to If an error does occur it may be difficult to determine the location of the error If you are using an Internet address then it is very likely that any transient errors are the result of problems on the Internet The best compromise is probably to set the test address to the address of a machine on your local area network if you have one e When selecting a Serial or Parallel port to use for loopback testing ensure that the port selected is not already in use by the system e g by a mouse or printer Also check the BIOS mode for the parallel port is correct e Because of limitations in the memory test faulty RAM errors may not be picked up by the test and faulty RAM can often manifest itself in different ways These include disk I O errors system crashes and lockups e Not all faults can be detected via software and a machine can not be deemed to be 100 fault free after testing with BurnInTest Some reasons for this include Faults may develop only after a certain period of time Faults may manifest themselves only in certain env
267. t is to be processed by an external program Notes 1 When running BurninTest from a USB drive using the p command line parameter it is recommended that you do not specify a Log file path only a file name By doing this if the USB drive letter changes between systems then the Log file will still be stored in the BurninTest directory on the USB drive 2 Unlike V5 of BurninTest you can specify any environment variable in the log name prefix As such you need to be careful in regards to the environment variable you use For example don t specify an environment variable that contains a directory path as this may be invalid Report types The format of the Result summary and Normal log files may be specified to be either ASCII text or HTML via the Text ASCII HTML or Customer certificate buttons This setting will also determine the format of the Trace logs Report detail Log file detail level A Log file detail lever may be selected for disk logging to specify the amount of information to be written to disk The options that may be selected are 1 Result Summary only Produces a log or htm file containing system information a summary of the tests run e g Which tests the number of operations and errors per test and a summary of the serious and critical errors during a test run cleared at the end of a non scripted test run or at the end of the script for a scripted test run 2 Normal Produces a log or
268. t of printer commands used with HP inkjet printers It moves the print head without actually printing any pages The language used for each make of printer is different but you can still make your own printer command file You need to create a document then print this document to a file using the correct printer device driver For example in Microsoft word when printing your document select the Print to file checkbox in the Print window Once a file is created it can then be used with BurninTest Normally printer command files have a prn file name extension but this may vary depending on the printer language used PCL Printer command language from Hewlett Packard PS Postscript Post Test Action Testing PASSED Action Testing FAILED There are different actions that may be taken based on whether a test Passes or Fails and whether the test is automatically stopped i e the test has run for the set duration or manually stopped by the user pressing the Stop button Auto Stop Actions specific to automatically stopped tests are described below Stop Tests Normal behavior This option will stop all the running tests and close all test windows The Result window indicating a PASS or FAIL will be displayed This is the normal default setting Stop Tests and print results This option will stop all the running tests and close all test windows The results will be sent to the default printer Run external app
269. t parameter gt SEEK_VAL lt parameter gt BLOCK_AUTO lt parameter gt SETOPTICALDISK ALL lt parameter gt Parameters DRIVE Drive Name This parameter must be specified first MODE Test mode 1 NO_TEST No test 2 MUSIC Music CD playback 3 DATA Data disk read and verify 4 PASSMARK Passmark test CD DVD BD 5 NO_CD No media in drive SEEK Seek count YES NO COUNT Seek count value Value of seek count 1999 2012 PassMark Software 148 BurninTest V7 0 BLOCK_AUTO Autoplay configuration YES NO The following parameters are global i e not for a particular disk ALL Select all optical drives YES NO Example SETOPTICALDISK DRIVE d MODE passmark SEEK yes SEEK_VAL 5 BLOCK_AUTO yes SETOPTICALDISK ALL yes SETLOG COMMAND Overview Set the Logging test options Syntax SETLOG LOG lt parameter gt NAME lt parameter gt PREFIX lt parameter gt TIME lt parameter gt REPORT lt parameter gt LOGLEVEL lt parameter gt TRACELEVEL lt parameter gt SUM lt parameter gt LINES lt parameter gt PERIODIC lt parameter gt FILE lt parameter gt Parameters LOG Turn automatic logging on YES NO NAME Log file name File path within double quotes PREFIX Log file prefix File prefix within double quotes TIME Time Stamped files YES NO REPORT Report type only one selectable 1 TEXT Text 2 HTML HTML 3 CERT Customer certificate LOGLEVEL Log file detail level 1 NO
270. t to automatically stop a test run by either configuring a test duration or a number of test cycles Test duration This option allows the user to select the period of time that tests are to run for After the time has expired all windows except the main window are closed and all the tests are stopped The duration in minutes should be entered in the Auto Stop after n Minutes field A value of 0 in this field means that the tests will run until a manual Stop command is issued via the button bar menu or the number of test cycles has been reached The test time for the unregistered trial version is fixed at 15 minutes per test After the software is registered the maximum auto stop time is 100 days The registered version can also run forever if the manual stop option a value of 0 is specified Number of test cycles This option allows the user to select the number of cycles that tests are to run for After all current tests have undergone the configured number of cycles in testing all windows except the main window are closed and all the tests are stopped This option is not available in the unregistered trial version of 1999 2012 PassMark Software Test selection and duty cycles 73 BurninTest The number of cycles should be entered in the or n Cycles field A value of 0 in this field means that the tests will run until a manual Stop command is issued via the button bar menu or the test duration has been reached N
271. tact PassMark Software for assistance Data packet transmission failed 1999 2012 PassMark Software BurninTest V7 0 USB driver reported send error Data could not be sent to the USB device It may be that the device has an intermittent connection to the host and has disconnected itself i e a faulty cable It may also indicate that there is a problem with the device drivers or USB hardware Data packet reception failed USB driver reported receive error Data could not received from the USB device It may also indicate that there is a problem with the device drivers or USB hardware USB data packet verify failed A block of data was sent to and received from the USB plug but the data was corrupted What was received did not match what was sent This could indicate a poor quality cable that is subject to external electromagnetic interference or faulty USB hardware Warning Too many USB errors attempted reset After 10 errors BurninTest automatically attempts clear the error condition start by provoking a reset on the device and device drivers If the error condition does clear after this action the problem was almost definitely a software problem Insufficient rights to lock pages Either you are not running Windows XP or the administrator user rights to lock pages in memory is not set See the page in the help file called Setting the Lock Pages in Memory right for more information This right is required for the advanced me
272. tcfg Using this feature it is possible to make your own configuration for each computer setup that your business encounters builds e g The heaw load situation the Disk test only configuration After the configuration files have been created they can be transferred between computers where BurninTest is installed See also Calling external programs via Auto stop actions Logging faults 1999 2012 PassMark Software Test automation and productivity 133 10 2 Command line arguments more options Command line arguments can be used to specify certain BurnInTest options and can be particularly useful when automating BurninTest Available command line arguments The following are the BurnInTest command line parameters B BurninTest will generate additional Serial port test information when activity trace level 2 logging is set This can be useful to help debug specific serial port errors C configfilename Loads the configuration file specified by configfilename D minutes Sets the test duration to the value specified by minutes Decimal values can be used E data Specifies the test data to use in the serial port test data is a single byte in the range 0 255 If this is not specified the serial port test will use the default setting of random data This can be useful to help debug specific serial port errors F If the disk self test is selected then run the extended disk self test also i e after the short
273. te RAM This is normally due to insufficient system resources and is not specifically a RAM error Check and possibly reduce the Torture test settings in Preferences gt RAM No NIC detected In the Standard Network test when Test all available Network Adapters is selected there were more Network Addresses specified for testing in Preferences gt Network than BurnInTest could detect Check that the number of Network address specified for testing matches the number of NIC s installed on the system If this matches then check your NICs all have IP addresses assigned to them e g that the cable is plugged in and the device driver is loaded Unable to create CD DVD test data There has been a problem creating the test data files that are required for the CD or DVD burn test Check disk space and access privileges Unable to initialize for CD DVD burning There has been a problem starting the CD or DVD burn test This is typically due to a problem with the IMAPI2 functionality in Windows The error log may provide additional information Unable to Burn CD DVD There has been a problem burning data to the CD or DVD burn test The error log may provide additional information Unable to Erase CD DVD There has been a problem erasing data from the CD or DVD burn test The error log may provide additional information IMAPI v2 not available The CD and DVD burn tests require IMAPI2 to be installed on Windows On Windows XP and Windows 2003 Ser
274. te any of the existing files from a disk this occupied portion of the 1999 2012 PassMark Software disk will not be tested Thus the more free space that the disk has before the test the larger the portion of the disk that will be tested e For the Printer test inspect printed pages by hand Check the text is complete and legible e When using the CD test with a music CD verify that the music is being played clearly though the PC s sound system e On some new computers the warranty may be voided if you open up the case Check your warranty before you start poking around in the case e Old computers tend to fill up with dust over the period of many years This dust layer can cause heat build up and even short circuits Check for dust build up in old computers before you start e Check the computer has adequate ventilation amp check all the fans are in good working order e Check that the computer isn t full of bugs i e the insect type Depending on where you live insects can be a real problem The term Computer Bug was coined after a dead moth was found to have shorted out one of the first computers built In Australia cockroaches are the most common cause of failure in microwave ovens Recent studies have even suggested that some insects are attracted to electro magnetic fields So watch out e There are many cases where a software bug may appear to be a problem with the hardware Knowing who or what to blame isn
275. ted by the serial port chips installed in the computer the UART Most chips only support speeds up to 115Kbit s Corruption Data received didn t match data sent BurninTest has detected that the data received from the serial port doesn t match the data sent This could indicate that there is a hardware problem This type of data corruption would however be a fairly rare type of event The more common result of a hardware failure would be the total inability to send or receive data see below Error while setting current COM port timeouts Windows has reported an error while trying to set the timeout periods for the data transmission and reception This could be a configuration problem in Windows This error should not normally been seen Error while sending data to the COM port Error while receiving from the COM port Windows has reported an error while trying to send receive data through the serial port Ifa device such as a loop back plug is not connected to the serial port then no data can be sent If the loop back plug is connected and is not faulty then this error may indicate a hardware fault COM port Clear To Send CTS line stuck high COM port Clear To Send CTS line stuck low COM port Data Set Ready DSR line stuck high COM port Data Set Ready DSR line stuck low The signal pin test phase of the serial test has failed This might be because of an incorrectly wired up loop back plug a cabling problem between t
276. tem Test Certificate in the BurninTest 5 0 help file for more information on modifying the test certificate 12 1 8 Test Automation Q Is there anyway that BurninTest can be used in an automated fashion on a production line There are a number of features built into BurninTest to help automate system testing This includes a number of command line parameters like r run BurninTest tests automatically m display the machine ID data entry window on BurninTest startup c load a user defined configuration file on BurninTest startup s run a user defined test script on BurnInTest startup See our white paper on this subject and BurninTest help Q How can setup BurninTest to run from a USB drive or CD DVD BD under Windows Applicable to BurninTest Pro version only It is possible to install BurninTest Professional onto a USB drive or CD DVD BD such that no installation is required on the test system This can be useful in a number of scenarios such as field staff testing PC s without installing BurnInTest on the test system When running BurninTest this way there will be no files left on the PC after BurnInTest has finished The procedure is the same for a optical disks but as it is not writeable for log files logging should be either turned off or specified to be on a writeable drive You can also get more sophisticated by having multiple test configurations there is some information about this in the online help f
277. tem load is particularly high If you are testing the video playback at the same time as the Sound loopback test ensure the video test file does not include an audio track Corrupt Audio input This is a more serious error than the previous one The audio line in data is corrupt and in no 1999 2012 PassMark Software way resembles the output wave Check that the audio loopback cable is connected to the correct ports and the Windows mixer settings are properly configured see section 3 11 Sound card test If a system is under high load the audio device driver may not be able to output a continuous Sine waveform If this occurs you may see the Corrupt Audio input warning To determine if this is load related reduce system load and re test If you are testing the video playback at the same time as the Sound loopback test ensure the video test file does not include an audio track Could not detect USB loopback plug The USB enumeration process failed to find a USB loopback plug device This might be because 1 The USB plug is not physically connected 2 The USB loopback device driver was not successfully installed 3 The USB plug was connected while a test was already in progress and thus was not recognized 4 The Windows O S is not installed correctly 5 The USB socket on the PC is faulty 6 The USB cable being used is faulty or is prone to errors 7 The plug itself has become faulty 8 The USB cable is too long or of poo
278. tern may be selected to be one of the following or to cycle through each pattern in the following order Sequence 0 1 2 255 Binary 1 10101010 Binary 2 01010101 Zeros 00000000 Ones 11111111 8 bit Cell adjacency test Note The 32 bit version of BurnlnTest will use 32 bit data patterns The 64 bit version of BurninTest will use 64 bit data patterns Multi Process Torture Test Pro version only The torture test is a multi process memory test It can be very useful to test the system paging mechanism swapping RAM lt gt Disk Multiple processes are started in their own virtual address space and each process allocates and tests a block of RAM Disk swapping and the over allocation of RAM can be tested using this method The number of test processes to start and the percentage of total RAM that each process will use can be specified by the user The Test pattern may be selected to be one of the following or to cycle through each pattern in the following order 1999 2012 PassMark Software Selecting Test Preferences 101 Sequence 0 1 2 255 Binary 1 10101010 Binary 2 01010101 Zeros 00000000 Ones 11111111 8 bit Cell adjacency test Note The 32 bit version of BurnlnTest will use 32 bit data patterns The 64 bit version of BurninTest will use 64 bit data patterns Addressing Windows Extensions 32 bit Pro version only The Addressing Windows Extensions memory test directly alloc
279. test initializes it attempts to lock the port for exclusive access This is essentially to prevent Windows XP and above warm polling the port which can produce invalid test results This error results in a failure to lock the port and does not represent a failure in testing the parallel port Corruption Data received didn t match data sent The data sent to the Parallel port was not the same as the data received This may indicate a hardware problem or a missing or faulty loop back connector Error while sending data to the parallel port Error while receiving data to the parallel port Windows has reported an error while trying send or receive data This could be a configuration problem in Windows This error should not normally been seen Could not detect the parallel port selected BurninTest was unable to find a parallel port at the location selected Try picking another port and see the Parallel port test description for more details about port selection Could not access the tape drive selected The tape drive selected from the preferences window e g TAPE1 could not be found connected to the computer Error while formatting tape partition The tape drive reported an error while trying to format the tape in the tape drive Error while loading rewinding tape The tape drive reported an error as a result of a request to load and position the tape for writing Error while locking tape in drive The tape drive reported that it
280. the disk and the read verify cycle occurring more quickly Note that one disk test cycle is defined to be writing a test file of the size specified by this setting and reading verifying the data Note that the file system type NTFS FAT32 or FAT and the version of the Windows operating system e g Windows XP may limit the size of the file that can be created on a disk Seek count For test modes that perform seeking to different positions on the disk drive e g Random data wth random seeking the seek count specifies the number of seeks for a particular iteration e g After Random data wth random seeking has created 100 test files the Seek count specifies the number of times a seek should occur between blocks within these 100 files Block size Test files are written and read to the files system disk in multiple blocks This is the read write block size Generally the larger the block size the faster the test will be Slow drive threshold BurninTest can be configured so that a warning message is generated when the transfer speed from a disk device drops below a certain level The transfer speed is measured in Megabytes second and a different threshold can be assigned for each drive Selecting a level of 0 will disable the feature When the measured I O transfer speed is below the threshold a warning message will appear in the detailed error log The entry will be similar to the following 2002 08 30 15 01 26 Disk Thres
281. tion of how a BurninTest can be set up to reboot itself in a cycle Step1 Select and save Rebooter settings Set the Maximum Reboots value to the number of cycles required Set the other parameters in Rebooter Reboot type Delay etc Don t set the delay value to be too short as you want BurninTest to fully stop before rebooting 20 Seconds is a good value Save the settings with the Save Options button Then close the Window Step2 Configure the settings you want in BurninTest From the Preferences and Duty Cycle windows enter all the settings that you want for your test runs When you close these windows the settings are saved to disk and will become the new default values Alternatively a separate configuration file could be created using the Save As Config menu option and used on the command line Make sure you Set atest period with the Auto Stop option in the preferences window Select Exit amp reboot PC in the Action after Auto Stop check boxes Have the log file accumulation option set in the Logging section of the preferences window Step3 Create an auto run shortcut Create an auto run short cut that points to the BurninTest executable You need to do this manually in Windows The command line in the shortcut should use the r option This will start tests executing in BurninTest automatically The command line for the shortcut should be something like 1999 2012 PassMark S
282. tion such as the Machine type Customer name and Technician s name to be entered Edit Error Classifications This opens the BurninTest error description and classification file in the default text editor This file can then be edited to include customer specific error descriptions and error severity classifications The user account will need to have write access to the BurninTest directory to modify this file e g a standard Vista account will not be able to save any changes to this file Please see Error Classifications Test Start Test Run Runs the tests selected in the Test Selection amp Duty Cycles window Each test will be run in its own window using its own execution thread This allows multiple tests to be executed simultaneously The results from each test are summarized in the main window Depending on what tests are being started the speed of the machine and the selected duty cycles the tests may take several seconds to start After tests have been started the menu s and buttons are Grayed out and no another actions can take place until the tests are stopped manually or automatically Stop test run Stops all the tests that are currently running It may take several seconds to stop all the tests remove test files from the disk and de allocate system resources If one of the test windows is the active window Alt F4 can also be used to stop all the tests Individual tests can not be stopped after they have been start
283. tor testing option cannot be scripted Syntax SET2DGRAPHICS TYPE lt parameter gt IGNORE lt parameter gt Parameters TYPE 1 LOCAL Local video memory only 2 ALL AIl available video memory 3 LINES Lines and Bitmap IGNORE Ignore skipped frames YES NO Example SET2DGRAPHICS TYPE all IGNORE yes SETUSB COMMAND Overview Set the USB test options Script currently support change in maximum number of ports 1999 2012 PassMark Software 152 BurninTest V7 0 Syntax SETUSB lt number gt Parameters number Value of ports to be tested Example SETUSB 3 SETRAM COMMAND Overview Set the RAM test options Multi Process Torture test and AWE tests options cannot be scripted Syntax SETRAM TYPE lt parameter gt PATTERN lt parameter gt PRETEST lt parameter gt LOG lt parameter gt Parameters TYPE Ram test mode 1 STANDRAD Standard PATTERN CYCLIC SEQUENCE BINARY1 BINARY2 ZEROS ONES ADJACENCY PRETEST run the standard test as pre test YES NO LOG Log memory applications YES NO Example SETRAM TYPE standard PATTERN binary1 PRETEST no LOG yes SETPLUGIN COMMAND Overview Set the plug in preferences for test Syntax SETPLUGIN PLUGIN 1 5 lt parameter gt PRETEST 1 3 lt parameter gt Parameters PLUGIN1 PLUGINS specify plug in application specify the plug in path within double quotes 1999 2012 PassMark Software Test automation and productivity 153
284. trol Panel go to Start Control Panel then click Display 2 From the General tab click Advanced then select the Troubleshoot tab 3 Move the Hardware acceleration pointer to Full Q BurniInTest crashes at the start of testing This might result in a hardware reset an invalid page fault or a partial crash with a window being empty black The most common reason for a fault like this is a problem with the 3D test which uses DirectX 9 0c There are a number of video card drivers that don t support hardware accelerated DirectX correctly or have bugs under particular versions of Windows This can result in a system crash and sometime strange rubbish appearing on the screen What you should do is e Prove that the crash was in fact caused by DirectX This can be done by turning off the 3D Graphics test in BurnInTest and then checking that this prevents the crash e Check that you are using the latest certified video driver for your video card ask your computer video card supplier or check their web page e Use the DxDiag program to verify your drivers and test Direct8D You should find DxDiag in c windows system or in c program files directx setup A number of hardware manufacturers produce video cards which have very poor software support for 3D graphics DirectX This is especially the case for the cheaper bottom of the range video cards Poor drivers can result in strange visual artifacts appearing on the screen poor 3D perfo
285. ty RAM System bus CPU or overheating SSE4 1 operation verification failed Not used Reserved for future use SSE4 2 operation verification failed Not used Reserved for future use SSE4a operation verification failed Not used Reserved for future use Prime number operation verification failed The execution of a prime number algorithm came up with the wrong result This is a very serious error for a computer as it means the computer is incapable of execution the same sequence of instructions to get the same result Possible reasons are faulty RAM System bus CPU or overheating No operations during test period No operations have occurred for a particular test during the test period This typically means that there has been some problem starting the test Check that the test period is more than a few seconds to allow all the tests to start Check the test configuration Parallel port test requires 64 bit version of BurninTest Testing Parallel ports on 64 bit Windows requires the 64 bit version of BurnInTest Re test using 64 bit BurninTest The 2D memory test is incompatible with the 3D full screen test The 2D memory test is not compatible with the 3D full screen test Either select a windowed 3D test or select the Lines and Bitmaps 2D test or run the tests one after the other The physical drive is fixed contains partitions or Windows files A physical disk e g disk number 2 has been selected for testing with the raw disk tes
286. ull screen test If you intend to run both the 2D Video memory test and the 3D test please select a Windowed 3D test in Preferences gt 3D gt Window Size 2 A display monitor is required for this test and the 2D test window must be in the foreground for the test to operate 3 The 32 bit version of BurninTest is limited to testing up to 1 5GB of video memory The 64 bit version of BurnInTest is limited to testing up to 4GB of video memory 6 3 3D Graphics test suite Bumintest 30Test 43 72 fps 794x572x32 4x Muitisampliei HAL hw vp NVIDIA Geforce 9800 GT This test creates and animates a 3D image to test the 3D functions of the video card and its associated software objets 1 plane 300 trees terrain water sky 1999 2012 PassMark Software 4 BurninTest V7 0 6 4 Mode Windowed size as per user selection Other features Stencil buffer Alpha blending Lighting Fogging Multitexture Mip mapping used Resources The terrain is formed by 32 258 triangular polygons 16 384 vertices information The water surface has 512 triangular polygons 1 350 vertices Each plane object has 192 triangular polygons and 286 vertices The test makes use of the Windows DirectX 3D interface If DirectX version specified in the System Requirements is not installed on your PC you will not be able to run this test in fact you may not even be able to start BurninTest DirectX can be downloaded from Microsof
287. ulty RAM System bus CPU or overheating SSE operation verification failed The execution of a SSE 1 instruction operation came up with the wrong result SSE Streaming SIMD extensions instructions include a sample of moving SSE 1 registers adding subtracting and multiplying SSE data This is a very serious error for a computer as it means the computer is incapable of execution the same sequence of instructions to get the same result Possible reasons are faulty RAM System bus CPU or overheating SSE2 operation verification failed The execution of a SSE2 instruction operation came up with the wrong result SSE2 Streaming SIMD extensions instructions include a sample of moving SSE2 registers adding subtracting and multiplying SSE data This is a very serious error for a computer as it means the computer is incapable of execution the same sequence of instructions to get the same result Possible reasons are faulty RAM System bus CPU or overheating SSE3 operation verification failed 1999 2012 PassMark Software 22 BurninTest V7 0 The execution of a SSE3 instruction operation came up with the wrong result SSE3 Streaming SIMD extensions instructions include a sample of moving SSE registers adding subtracting and multiplying SSE data This is a very serious error for a computer as it means the computer is incapable of execution the same sequence of instructions to get the same result Possible reasons are faul
288. ume control The slide bars should be near the center of the range and the Mute check boxes should be 1999 2012 PassMark Software Test descriptions 65 unchecked It is advisable to Mute all other output devices e g Midi CD Audio in order to maintain a pure output signal In particular the Line In volume control should be muted to prevent feedback loops in some sound cards Initially leave the balance setting in the middle If these settings are not correct there will be no sound output 3 Switch to the mixer recording input window From the mixer window select the Options gt Properties menu item and then select the Recording option and the volume control check boxes After clicking on OK the recording volume controls for the mixer inputs are displayed 4 Check that Line In input is enabled E Recording Control his volume control is the most important setting for the loopback test If the volume setting is too low the input signals will be correspondingly vague and therefore distortion will be high If the volume setting is too high the input signal may become capped as the sound waves become truncated This will also lead to high distortion and errors being logged You may need to play with this control while the test is in progress in order to find the sweet spot A useful tool for calibrating your input and output audio levels is PassMark SoundCheck available from http www passmark com Once
289. ur main board supports temperature monitoring This can be done from the documentation that comes with the board computer or from the manufacturers web page e Ensure that the third party monitoring application is correctly installed See below for a list of supported applications e Check that third party monitoring application supports your motherboard Each application comes with a list of supported boards See below for more details on the supported applications 1999 2012 PassMark Software Selecting Test Preferences 109 e Check that the third party monitoring application is a compatible version See below for a list of compatible versions e Run the third party monitoring application then Run BurninTest e Make sure temperature monitoring is turned on in BurninTest from the Test preferences Window and if required the temperature source value is selected For Hmonitor up to two sources can be selected for display and logging in BurninTest e Start testing BurninTest reads the CPU temperature values from the third party monitoring application displaying them on the screen and writing them to disk if logging is turned on Please bear in mind that the accuracy of the temperature values in BurnInTest depend entirely on the third party application in question 8 20 Battery monitoring Battery UPS Monitoring BurninTest can work with another product from PassMark Software called BatteryMon BatteryMon allows the charge
290. urninTest on an optical disk CD DVD BD follow the process above but specify a writable temporary directory in step 1 e g C BurnInTest On completing the installation to the temporary directory burn the created directory to the optical disk Q am not using the 3D test and don t want to install or update DirectX Can I skip the DirectX warning message on startup Yes Start BurninTest with the x command line parameter Precautions for thorough and careful testing For a hardware test to be useful several precautions need to be taken Failure to take into account these factors may result in tests being misleading or other unwanted results e Stop all other applications before running BurnInTest BurnInTest can be run in the background but it just doesn t seem prudent to do any important work when you re testing a computer to see if it will fail In any case BurninTest will place such a load on the system that any other applications will run at a snails pace Not having other applications running also frees up more RAM that can be used by the Memory test e Back up any important files before you start BurninTest can simulate many days of typical office PC use in a few hours this increases the risk of hardware failure Note that the testing process itself doesn t touch any existing files on the hard disk or floppy disk It does however overwrite the contents of tapes used in the tape drive test Pro version only e When testing mu
291. utoRun value disables Auto Run for specified drive letters It is a REG_DWORD data value found under the HKEY_CURRENT_USER Software Microsoft Windows Current Version Policies Explorer key The first bit of the value corresponds to A the second to B and so on To disable Auto Run for one or more drive letters set the corresponding bits For example to disable the A and C drives set NoDriveAutoRun to 0x00000005 The NoDriveTypeAutoRun value disables Auto Run for a class of drives It is a REG_DWORD or 4 byte 1999 2012 PassMark Software o BurninTest V7 0 8 10 8 11 REG_BINARY data value found under the HKEY_CURRENT_USER Software Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Policies Explorer key By setting the bits of this value s first byte different drives can be excluded from working with Auto Run The following table gives the bits and bit mask constants that can be set in the first byte of NoDriveTypeAutoRun to disable Auto Run for a particular drive type For Microsoft Windows 2000 you must restart Windows Explorer before the changes take effect Bit Number Bit mask Constant Description 0x04 DRIVE_REMOVEABLE Disk can be removed from drive such as a floppy disk 0x08 DRIVE_FIXED Disk cannot be removed from drive a hard disk 0x10 DRIVE_REMOTE Network drive 0x20 DRIVE_CDROM CD ROM drive 0x40 DRIVE_RAMDISK RAM disk Parallel port The Parallel port test is only included in the BurninTest Pro version only Parall
292. ve This installation process can be performed for a USB drive installation any writable drive using the menu option File gt Install BurninTest to a USB drive From the Install BurnInTest to a USB drive Window you need to specify 1 The USB drive and directory you want to install BurninTest to For example F BurnInTest BurninTest will create the directory if it does not exist 2 The type of installation If you have a license key then select Licensed otherwise select Evaluation for a trial period 3 If you selected a Licensed installation type then enter the Username Key When you select install BurninTest will create the directory on the USB drive e g F BurninTest copy all of the files from the BurnlnTest directory e g C Program Files BurnlnTest to the USB drive e g F BurninTest and install the license information onto the USB drive Installing BurninTest to an optical disk To install BurninTest on an optical disk CD DVD BD follow the process above but specify a writable 1999 2012 PassMark Software Test automation and productivity 159 temporary directory in step 1 e g C BurnInTest On completing the installation to the temporary directory burn the created directory to the optical disk 10 6 Testing with no operating system installed Many BurninTest users can benefit from testing PC hardware when there is no Operating System installed or the Operating System is inoperable This can
293. ve has reported that it requires cleaning 185 Tape is write protected 185 Tape partition is too small for test files 185 TCP IP 47 88 Temperature 105 Temperature Sources 105 Test 97 Test Certificate 116 Test configuration 72 Test control message error 185 Test file could not be created Check access privileges 185 Test file could not be re opened 185 Testname 29 Test Pattern 43 Test setup 20 24 72 Text 118 121 127 The 2D memory test is incompatible with the 3D Full screentest 185 The 3D test was interrupted 185 The drive detected was not an optical drive 185 1999 2012 PassMark Software The physical drive does not exist on this system Check settings 185 The physical drive is fixed contains partitions or Windows files 185 The requested COM port could not be found Threshold 81 Time 98 Timeout sending packet Timeout waiting for packet Timer 98 Torture Test e e 185 185 185 100 UDP packet loss has risen above set threshold 185 Unable to allocate memory for audio clip buffer 185 Unable to bind to local NIC 185 Unable to Burn CD 185 Unable to Burn CD DVD 185 Unable to communicate with the External Plug in 185 Unable to connect to Endpoint Check endpoint exe 185 Unable to create CD test data 185 Unable to create CD DVD test data 185 Unable to create dialog for GUI test 185 Unable to create image list for GUI test 185 Unable to determine service profiles for Bluetooth device
294. vent Log Temperature Results BurninTest test result a 00m 32s View errors by categories Ready Here s a Summary of the steps to go through to start testing 1 Use the Configuration Test Duty Cycles window to select the type of tests you wish to perform 2 Use the Configuration Test Preferences window to set any parameters that you wish to use e g which hard drive to use 3 Put paper in the printer a data DVD in the DVD drive and connect any loopback plugs if you selected these tests 4 Click on the Start button That s it 1999 2012 PassMark Software 18 BurninTest V7 0 4 How to purchase BurninTest Price US Dollars 79 Professional version single user US Dollars 39 Standard version single user See the PassMark website Online store http www passmark com sales Ordering FAQ http www passmark com support ordering_faq htm 1999 2012 PassMark Software BurninTest V7 0 5 Understanding the display The BurninTest display comprises the following main components Menu The menu bar at the top of the main window provides most of the options for using BurninTest Context sensitive popup menus are available from the main window tabs using the mouse Right click The main window has 4 tabs that display different types on information System Information Select the System Information tab to display information about the current system
295. vents Such as errors are always automatically logged to the Event log history This can be viewed by selecting the Event Log tab on the main window This type of logging is not affected by the Logging on option which refers to automatic logging to disk Text and HTML reports can be manually created using File Save report This will save System information a result summary and the recent Detailed Event log history A customer style HTML test certificate is also available Turn automatic logging on Logging to disk is switched on and off with the Turn automatic logging on option When disk logging is on BurninTest will log System information results result summaries and detailed error descriptions to files based on the following user settings The log files will be created when a test run starts The log files are closed and available for use by another application when Turn automatic logging on is switched off any of the logging options Log Directory Detail Level ASCII HTML Format are changed or when BurninTest is exited or automatically stopped with a REBOOT or REBOOTEND scripting command Log file name Log file name The Log file name allows the directory and filename prefix to be specified For the default of Time stamped files the file will automatically be appended with _YYMMDD_HHMMSS log htm or trace 1999 2012 PassMark Software s BurninTest V7 0 specifying the Year Month
296. ver The IP address of the destination Network address specified in preferences Packets Sent The number of packets sent to the remote host Packets Received The number of packets received back from the remote host This should remain at the same level as the Packets Sent counter If after 2 second a sent packet is not echoed this causes a timeout error and Packets Sent will be greater than Packets received Current delay The round trip time in milliseconds for the last packet sent Average Delay The average round trip time in milliseconds for a packet Max Delay 1999 2012 PassMark Software Test descriptions 49 The maximum round trip time in milliseconds for a packet The maximum values often happen at the very start of the test session This is because Windows is still loading and caching the required networking software Bytes sent The total number of bytes transmitted to the network Flow rate The average number of packets sent per second for the test period The duty cycle set for the Network Test determines how many packets are being sent per second Errors The number of errors that have been detected and the percentage of packets that were attempted to be sent that had an error are displayed The definition of what an error is can be changed from the Test Preferences window Depending on the settings in the preferences window the error count can be incremented for every detected error or alte
297. ver this is available from Microsoft as a patch Please see the test description for the CD DVD test No media in drive BurninTest has attempted to erase the CD or DVD and has found that there is no CD or DVD in the drive under test Please check that you have a re writeable CD or DVD in the drive under test and that the test mode matches the media type i e CD or DVD burn test Incorrect media in drive for test 1999 2012 PassMark Software BurninTest has attempted to erase the CD or DVD and has found that the media is not re writeable CD or DVD in the drive under test Please check that you have a re writeable CD or DVD in the drive under test and that the test mode matches the media type i e CD or DVD burn test General instruction operation verification failed The execution of a general instruction operation came up with the wrong result e g 1 1 3 General instruction include Integer mathematics e g add subtract multiply and divide Data transfer instructions e g pushing poping data to from the stack Bitwise logical instructions e g bitwise and or xor Shift and rotate instructions e g shift data left x number of bits Logical instructions e g equals Control transfer instructions e g jump on x greater than y and String instructions eg copy a text string This is a very serious error for a computer as it means the computer is incapable of execution the same sequence of instructions to get the sam
298. wait for it to exit Run another application prior to starting the test run BurnInTest will wait for this application to exit before it continues See also EXECUTEWAIT for scripting External Application The path to the external application above 8 13 Printer Print test configuration Standard printer test The standard test sends pages of text to the default Windows printer The pages printed by the printer should be a page of solid text in a fixed point font filling the printable area of the page There should be a small margin usually under 1cm around the block of text Standard color printer test The standard color test sends pages of color text to the default Windows printer Printer command file The user can define a printer command file to be used in place of the standard test A printer command file is a file containing a series of printer commands which is used by the printer to carry out certain actions Print cover page before sending job to printer 1999 2012 PassMark Software 98 BurninTest V7 0 8 14 The user may choose to print a cover page before sending the command file to the printer This may help troubleshooting possible command file as opposed to printer errors How to create a printer command file There is an example printer command file included with BurnInTest The example file is called HP Printer file pcl and can be found in the BurninTest installation directory This file is a lis
299. wed from the Test Preferences window A USB port loop back plug is required to run this test Up to 25 USB ports can be tested when used with the PassMark USB 2 0 Loopback plug There are two versions of USB loopback plugs The USB 2 0 loopback plug provides a wider range of test for USB 1 x and 2 0 USB 2 0 supports rates up to 480Mb sec For backwards compatibility the 1999 2012 PassMark Software Test descriptions USB 1 0 loopback plug supports a range of testing for USB 1 x USB 1 x supports rates up to 12 Mb sec The PassMark USB 2 0 Loopback Plug can be purchased from the PassMark web site Using a PassMark USB 2 0 Loopback Plug and BurninTest it is possible to e Quickly check if a USB port is powered the red LED e Check that data can be sent and received from the port e Check USB errors rates and transmission speed e Check that the system remains stable under long periods of load e Test that USB support in Windows has been correctly installed e Check USB cabling e Concurrently check multiple USB ports at the same time In addition with the USB 2 0 loopback plug and BurninTest it is possible to test e Check if your PC ports are high speed 480Mbits sec USB 2 0 or full speed 12Mbits sec USB 1 x via a LED or the BurnInTest USB test Window e Check USB errors rates and transmission speed using the USB 2 0 Highspeed protocol It is worth noting that with the USB 2 0 loopback plug and the PassMark USB2Test software
300. with the test SETCUSTOMER COMMAND Syntax SETCUSTOMER lt Customer name gt Parameters lt Customer name gt The customer name string Must be enclosed in double quotes Examples Set the customer name SETCUSTOMER The big PC store NOTE SETSERIAL SETMACHINETYPE SETNOTES SETCUSTOMER SETTECHNICIAN commands should be included as the first commands in a script so that the report settings are included in any log file System Information SETCYCLES COMMAND 1999 2012 PassMark Software 140 BurninTest V7 0 Syntax SETCYCLES lt Number of test cycles gt Parameters lt Number of test cycles gt Sets the number of test cycles that will lead to an automatic stopping of the test runs after all selected tests have reached or exceeded this number of test cycles Using this command is the same as changing the auto stop number of cycles from the preferences window Example 1 Set the number of test cycles to 1 SETCYCLES 1 Example Run each test one cycle in series SETCYCLES 1 SETDURATION 0 LOG Run CPU Test RUN CPU Etc NOTE Automatic stopping after a set number of test cycles is only supported in the licensed version of BurninTest SETDURATION COMMAND Syntax SETDURATION lt Duration gt Parameters lt Duration gt Sets the test duration in minutes Using this command is the same as changing the auto stop period from the preferences window Examples Set the test duration to 90 s
301. xercises and verifies correct operation of CPU instructions from the following groups e Integer mathematics e g add subtract multiply and divide Data transfer instructions e g pushing popping data to from the stack Bitwise logical instructions e g bitwise and or xor Shift and rotate instructions e g shift data left x number of bits Logical instructions e g equals Control transfer instructions e g jump on x greater than y String instructions eg copy a text string Known and random data sets are used to exercise and verify correct operation On 32 bit systems 32 1999 2012 PassMark Software e BurninTest V7 0 bit data sets are used On 64 bit systems 64 bit data sets are used The random numbers are generated regularly to provide a larger data set as well as ensure that the CPU caches overflow and that this mechanism is tested Floating Point Unit FPU instructions This test exercises and verifies correct operation of CPU instructions from the following groups e Floating Point math e g add subtract multiply and divide e Transcendental s e g sine cosine e Load constants e g load Pi Known and random data sets are used to exercise and verify correct operation On 32 bit systems 32 bit floating point data sets are used On 64 bit systems 64 bit floating point data sets are used The random numbers are generated regularly to provide a larger data set as well as ensure that the CPU caches ove
302. y as the default directory i e save log files to the USB thumb drive In the BurninTest directory on the USB flash drive you create a file bit_p bat then edit this file and add the line bit exe r p See also Calling external programs via Auto stop actions Reboot cycling 1999 2012 PassMark Software 136 BurninTest V7 0 10 3 Scripting a series of tests BurninTest includes a simple scripting language that allows a series of tests with different configurations to be executed in a sequence A PASS FAIL indication for all of the tests included in the script can be displayed at the end of the scripted test run To achieve this you should select Accumulate logs until manually cleared from the Logging Preferences and results should be cleared before or at the start of the scripted test run Script files are ASCII text files that you can create with a text editor e g notepad The file name must end with the extension bits To start a script use the Test Execute script menu item Each script command must appear on its own line in the text file and the entire command must appear on a single line i e a single command can not be split across multiple lines The command and its parameters must be separated by one or more spaces Comments can be included by starting the line with the character The main scripting commands are shown below Scripting commands to configure test preferences are shown

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