Software Update: PassMark BurnInTest 6.0 build 1013

PassMark Software released version 6.0 build 1013 of BurnInTest on Thursday. This program puts the various parts of the computer to work in order to test the reliability and stability of the system. The software is available in a standard version and a professional edition, the latter of which is available in both a 32-bit and a 64-bit version. The professional edition supports testing of more hardware, including tape drives and the parallel, serial and USB ports. In addition, the memory tests in the Pro version are more extensive. More information about the differences between them is on this page to find. Since version 6.0 build 1011, the following changes have been made to the program:

Changes in version 6.0 build 1013:

• Improved support for the PassMark Blu-ray test disc.
• A Bluetooth test has been added.
• System information for Bluetooth is now included in the System information sections.
• A Display devices button has been added to Preferences->Network to assist users determine the paired and in range Bluetooth devices.
• A Wi-Fi test has been added as an extension to the standard network test. New options for 6 Network Addresses allow the user to specify the Network Adapter type for the destination Network Address. Also, new “Test all
• available NICs” options have been added: Test all available Ethernet Network Adapters and Test all available 802.11 (wireless) Network Adapters.
• Install BurnInTest to USB drive has been added to BurnInTest Standard (previously only supported in Pro).
• Correction to the number of CPU cores detected for an unreleased AMD CPU.
• Correction for Hyperthreading detection for an unreleased Intel CPU. Additional CPU debug logging.
• Improved the CPU frequency measurement for the highest CPU power state on certain Intel CPUs.
• System information updates for the CPU specification for recent and unreleased AMD and Intel CPUs.
• Additional Intel and AMD CPU temperature reporting added.
• CPU icons updated.
• Improvement to the size of test RAM at the start of the RAM Quick test.
• Increased the number of memory slots that can be reported from 8 to 64.
• Minor Improvement to the reporting of DDR3 memory.
• Increased Disk error logging detail.
• Improvements to the sound loopback test. Including, (i) only increasing the number of operations for looped waveform samples that are within the user distortion setting, (ii) adding a watchdog timer (approx. 2 minutes) to restart
• the test in the case of failure and no operations (such as a device driver failure).
• The 2D video memory test has been tuned such that when it is used with a 3D test window of 800 x 600 or larger, more video memory is made available for the 3D test (Water texture).
• Minor changes to the 3D test to resolve a 3D crash reported on one system.
• Changes to the USB test for handling S3/S4 Sleep states during testing.
• Changed the Errors->Block critical Windows errors setting to apply regardless of what tests were started (previously the disk test needed to be started).
• Correction to a problem where after multiple scripted REBOOTs with Rebooter set to Forced shutdown, the BurnInTest configuration file could become corrupted.
• Non printable ASCII characters are now stripped from the reports (esp. for non-English operating system).
• Error message improved for the case when a BurnInTest Std key is entered in BurnInTest Pro (and vice-versa).
• Improvements to the support of larger font settings in Windows.
• Minor changes for WinPE support.
• Minor consistency improvements to the test Windows.
• Minor help file corrections.

The following downloads are available:
PassMark BurnInTest 6.0 build 1013 – Standard
PassMark BurnInTest 6.0 build 1013 – Professional, 32bit
PassMark BurnInTest 6.0 build 1013 – Professional, 64bit