Download PassMark BurnInTest 5.3 build 1010

PassMark Software today released version 5.3 build 1010 of BurnInTest. This program puts the proverbial fire to the shins of the various parts of the computer in order to test the reliability and stability of the system. The software is available in a standard and a professional edition, with the latter also available for download in a 32-bit and a 64-bit flavour. The professional edition is able to test more hardware, including tape drives and, for example, the parallel, serial and USB ports. In addition, the Pro version also has more extensive memory tests. More information about the differences between them is here to find. Below are all the changes that have been made to the program since the previous entry in the junk tracker:

Release 5.3 build 1010:

• As BurnInTest exercises system components, it is possible for faulty hardware or device drivers to cause software exceptions. These are normally seen as Windows reporting an “Access Violation”. Changes have been made to handle these errors for the memory tests (for faulty RAM) and direct device driver access (for some device driver errors), as well as overarching more generic handling of these types of errors.
• Corrected a software failure bug on startup (particularly Vista) where a DirectX function was causing software failures in “dsetup.dll”.
• Updated the “Activity Event” generated with the periodic results summary report to be numbered (from 1 upwards) such that when “Logging->Summarize” is specified, these activity events are not summarized.
• Corrected a bug where the HTML log name could include a duplicate of the filename prefix.
• Updated the Common Errors section of help.
• Corrected a ‘zip’ version cleanup problem.

Release 5.3 build 1007

• Standard Network Test changes:
  • Increased the number of destination IP addresses from 4 to 6.
  • Added an option “Test all available NICs”, which will force traffic down every system NIC with a basic algorithm of NIC1 to IP Address 1, NIC2 to IP Address 2 etc.

  Advanced Network test changes:

  • Simplified the test.
  • Removed the UDP and FTP options.
  • Removed the Advanced Network test specific logging, and included all relevant logging in the standard BurnInTest logging mechanism.
  • Replaced the complicated dynamic balancing of any system NIC to any Endpoint NIC with a simpler static allocation on test startup.
  • Changed the error detection mechanism to detect errors much more quickly.
  • Re-worked the errors reported.
  • Changed the CPU throttling mechanism to reduce the CPU load.
  • Updated endpoint.exe.
  • Removed checking.exe (now obsolete).
• Corrected a disk test startup problem for some large RAID systems when SMART testing is selected.
• Added additional logging for the disk test when an error occurs.
• Changed the 3D (windowed) test when run with the 2D EMC test to be ‘behind’ the EMC scrolling H’s test. Allowed the test to be easily exited when running the 3D test in windowed fullscreen mode.
• Corrected the “Unknown” reporting of some operating systems.
• Added the skipping of the Butterfly seek disk test when run on Vista and insufficient privileges. A notification of this is logged.
• Intel Quad core L2 cache size reporting has been added.
• Added new SMART threshold descriptions.
• Added new disk test options, accessed via command line parameters:
  /ka: keep disk test files in all cases (cf /k keep disk test files on error).
  /j: cycle patterns between test files. 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.
• Correction to the behavior of a static RAM test pattern (rather than the default Cyclic pattern).
• The “Select all CD/DVD drives” preferences option has been made user configurable, rather than using pre-defined test settings.
• Bug correction for the CD auto selection feature.
• Changed the log file reference of “Network Name” to “Computer Name”.
• Changed the logging rollover to work with the output of interim results (eg per 1 minute). Previously rollover only occurred on error events written to the log. This also prevents the delay of the interim results being written to the physical disk (due to Windows disk caching).
• WIN64 specific:
  • MMX and 3D Now! are obsolete for native 64-bit applications. BurnInTest has been changed to show “NA” (Not applicable) in the test window for these tests.

Release 5.3 build 1005 rev 0001 Standard:

• Corrected a bug introduced in v5.3.1005.0000 STD (only) where the disk test would use up more and more system resources, causing the system to run out of resources (until BurnInTest was closed) and tests to fail.

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