Software update: Passmark BurnInTest 8.1 build 1003

PassMark Software has released an update to version 8.1 of BurnInTest. 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, with both 32-bit and 64-bit versions available for download. The professional edition offers additional testing capabilities for tape drives and 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 here to find. Since version 8.0 build 1031, the following changes and improvements have been made:

Changes in version 8.1 build 1003

• Changes to correct a crash on start-up with HTML reporting of SPD data on a system with a large number of memory sticks.
• Correction to the SETLOG script command for “TRACELEVEL NO”.
• Correction to the BITaccess lock down for CPU, GPGPU and PCIe.

Changes in version 8.1 build 1002

• Minor improvements and corrections to the PCIe test.
• Changes to correct a crash with formatting SMART attribute data that can occur on very long test runs, when the disk test checks SMART data and disk temperature monitoring is turned on.
• Changes to correct a crash on start-up collecting SMART data from Adaptec 6, 7 and 8 Series Hardware Raid Controllers with new firmware.
• Added debug logging and a work around for BurnInTest not stopping on Windows embedded.

Changes in version 8.1 build 1001

• Minor improvements and corrections to the PCIe test.

Changes in version 8.1 build 1000

• New PCIe loopback and voltage test. Requires PassMark PCIe test card.
• Improved the Bluetooth test for iPads and Android smartphones.
• System information changes:
  • Removed some debug message boxes for Ivy bridge CPUs.
  • Added system information for AMD Radeon R9 Fury X, R9 390X, R9 390, R9 380, R9 M375, R9 M370X, R7 370.
  • Fixed memory SPD for AMD Hudson-2/Hudson-3 SMBus systems. Added decoding of Maximum Activate Count (MAC) and Maximum Activate Window (MAW) SPD fields in DDR3 rev 1.3.
  • Improved SMART data collection for disk controller drivers that identify as SCSI drives.

Changes in version 8.0 build 1046

• Correction to the “SETNETWORK” scripting command for setting the “LOOPBACK” test mode.

Changes in version 8.0 build 1045

• Correction to the command line parameter, -n [minimum volume size in MB]. Previously could only be used to exclude disks less than about 2GB.
• Added new debug logging for a USB 2.0 loopback error.

Changes in version 8.0 build 1044

• Added a silent version of force debug logging “-US”, where the debug log filename message boxes are not displayed.

Changes in version 8.0 build 1043

• Corrected a rare crash bug when graphing temperature data.
• If the battery test reports a capacity and designed capacity of 0, an error is now raised.
• The following scripting command can now include environment variables in the parameters for expansion to strings: SETSERIAL, SETTECHNICIAN, SETCUSTOMER, SETMACHINETYPE, SETNOTES. SETNOTES can include “\n” as a new line break.
• SPD system information added for the Intel Sunrise Point chipset. Improvements for DDR3 and ECC DDR2 SPD information.
• New debugging logging added for when a crash occurs while running on WinPE.
• Update to help.

Changes in version 8.0 build 1042

• Minor change to the Random data with random seeking physical disk test and additional debug logging.

Changes in version 8.0 build 1041

• The disk test has been optimized to run faster, especially for disks that are faster than about 800MB/s.
• The physical disk test may report “Unable to unmount volume” if partition information is found on the disk, but no volume is mounted. This has been corrected.
• Corrected a possible crash bug with the Butterfly seek disk test if BurnInTest is unable to get the disk volume information.
• Reduced the time taken to collect System information.
• Corrected a possible crash bug if BurnInTest was started before the disk system information was collected.
• Updated CPU system information: Added Intel Cherry Trail, Braswell and Knights Landing. Added Intel Bay trail temperature monitoring. Intel Core 2 Duo E6000 and E4000 temperature monitoring updates. Added newer Intel Haswell and Broadwell CPU system information. Added newer AMD CPU system information.
• Improvements to memory information collection for SPD decode of DDR2 ECC, the Intel 5100 chipset, Intel Wildcat Point PCH and decoding of DDR3 rev1.1 timings.
• Added System information for the AMD HD 8690A GPU.

Changes in version 8.0 build 1040

• Changes to the new 2D EMC reference test pattern test:
  • Alt-tab can now be used to bring the BurnInTest controls on top of the test pattern.
  • The test pattern is now supported on up to 4 monitors (more if graphics system supports duplication onto more monitors).
  • A new option to display the scrolling characters on the primary display and the test pattern on a second display has been added.
  • 4:2:2 and 4:2:0 sampling has been added to the relevant zones of the test pattern.
• If testing a system with greater than 2GB of RAM when using 32-bit BurnInTest on WinPE, then the test RAM size is limited in a more appropriate manner. Note: Systems with more than 2GB of RAM should be tested with 64-bit BurnInTest.

Changes in version 8.0 build 1039

• New 2D EMC reference test pattern test.
• Reduced the time to collect memory SPD information in some scenarios.
• New system information for some newer CPUs.
• Some CPU information collection is now skipped on Linux VMs.
• License agreement updated.
• Minor updates to help.

Changes in version 8.0 build 1038

• Correction for Windows 10 when driver verifier is turned on for Blue Screen INVALID_KERNEL_HANDLE. Note: this issue did not occur if the driver verifier was not turned on.
• Additional system information added for new Haswell-E Xeon E7 v3.

Changes in version 8.0 build 1037

• Correction to a verify error in the disk High/Low test mode when run on a physical disk.

Changes in version 8.0 build 1036

• Fixed a black screen issue related to reading DDR4 RAM SPD data.
• Fixed memory SPD information not being retrieved for Sandy Bridge-E/Ivy Bridge-E chipsets when failing in some scenarios.
• Improved support for running on Virtual Machines.

Changes in version 8.0 build 1035

• Added debug information for 3rd party temperature monitoring.

Changes in version 8.0 build 1034

• Added R9 285, HD 7730 to video card system information.
• Added detection of whether BurnInTest is running on a Virtual Machine, or real hardware. In some cases, some CPU information collection will be skipped on VMs.

Changes in version 8.0 build 1033

• Added debug information for 3rd party temperature monitoring.

Changes in version 8.0 build 1032

• Changes to the collection of Memory SPD information (for Intel801 SMBus) and additional debug information.

The following downloads are available:
PassMark BurnInTest 8.1 build 1003 – Standard
PassMark BurnInTest 8.1 build 1003 – Professional