PassMark BurnInTest - What's New?

Here’s a summary of all the changes that have been made in each version of BurnInTest. Click here to return to the BurnInTest product page.

Release 5.3 build 1014, 26/February/2008

• Corrected a problem where the loopback sound test could run out of memory if run for several days.

Release 5.3 build 1013, 31/December/2007

• Improved the reporting of COM port errors such that in the rare case a COM port locks up in the Operating System, the error is still reported.
• Corrected a bug, where in rare cases, the result summary could be duplicated in a log file.
• Updated license management, in an attempt to remove a rare crash on startup.
  

Release 5.3 build 1012 rev0002, 1/November/2007

• New build of Rebooter (64-bit Windows correction).
• Clarifications in the help file.

Release 5.3 build 1012, 17/October/2007

• Changed the Standard Network Test, "Test all available NICs" such that the number of Network Addresses specified in Preferences->Network will be the number of NICs tested. This will error faulty NICs that are not detected by the BurnInTest auto NIC detection mechanism.
• Minor change to the 2D memory test when run with the 3D test (multiple large windows) and the RAM test. Aimed at correcting sympton: Access Violation 0x00404CF9.
• Corrections to the mapping of paths with ".\".

Release 5.3 build 1011 rev 0002, 20/September/2007

• Modified the Multi-Process torture test to better describe a new error message introduced in V5.3.1010.

Release 5.3 build 1011, 11/September/2007

• Corrected a bug where "Limited Evaluation Version" could be displayed even after BurnInTest is licensed (problem introduced in 32-bit BITPRO V5.3.1010).
• Changed the Sound test to allow any of the tests (Wave, Midi or MP3) to be excluded from testing by blanking the filename.
• The Command line parameter "-j", cycle disk test patterns after each test file, could fail during the Random data test due to the mechanism used in BurnInTest. The Random data test is now excluded from the test when (and only when) the "-j" command line parameter is specified.
• In rare circumstances, the 2D test number of operations could potentially overflow and become negative. This has been corrected.
• In rare circumstances, BurnInTest could hang if there was a system problem in rebooting the system (ie. it failed to shutdown) using PassMark Rebooter. This has been corrected.

Release 5.3 build 1010, 28/August/2007

• 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, 7/August/2007

• 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 checkend.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 (c.f. /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 (e.g. 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 3DNow! 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, 29/June/2007

• 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.
  

Release 5.3 build 1005, 18/May/2007

• In a number of cases, such as when specifying the post test application, uppercase application names were not accepted. This has been corrected.
• The default font height in the 2D scrolling H's test should have been Arial 9. This has been changed.
• The BurnInTest Video playback test incompatibility with Nero 6 and Nero 7 has been resolved.
• When testing multiple disks with the BurnInTest disk test the throughput for dual core systems has been improved.
• Changed the Standard Network Test to better report packet error ratios. In addition, a new warning has been added to indicate that errors have been detected but not enough packets have been attempted to be sent to determine accurately whether the configured error ratio has been exceeded.
• Corrected a bug where the "append to existing" logging option did not work across scripted reboots, and a new log file was created instead of appending to the existing log file.
• If the 3D test was running, then BurnInTest blocked a forced close of BurnInTest, this blocking has been removed.
• Changed the PASS and FAIL windows so they can now also be closed by selecting the Windows Close "X" button.
  

Release 5.3 build 1004, 10/April/2007

New functionality:

• Multi-monitor 2D, 3D and Video tests (BurnInTest Pro only) are now available. Test windows (2D, 3D and Video playback) can be started across multiple monitors (up to 4). The Window positioning and size can be specified.
• The 3D test has been improved. The 3D ball test has been replaced with a more complex 3D terrain test. This will more thoroughly exercise modern graphics cards.
• A new 2D GUI (Graphical User Interface) test has been added to the standard 2D graphics test to exercise common Windows controls.
• The Video test has been changed to allow 4 video files to be specified (up from 3).
• The video card description is now collected for a larger range of Vista systems.
• When running the CD test under BartPE (Pre-install environment) 4 additional specific files are skipped as they are unavailable for testing.
• On some systems, the Disk test could pause momentarily even when a duty cycle of 100% was specified. This pause has been removed.
• A command line parameter -P has been added to allow the BurnInTest directory to be used rather than the User's personal directory. This may be useful when running BurnInTest from a USB drive for example.
• A command line parameter -X has been added to skip the DirectX version checking on BurnInTest start-up.
• A number of undocumented command line parameters have been documented:
  -B: BurnInTest will generate additional Serial port test information when activity trace level 2 logging is set.
  -E [data]: Specifies the test data to use in the serial port test.
  -M: Automatically display the Machine ID Window when BurnInTest is started.
  -U: Force BurnInTest to set logging on at startup.
• A new version of rebooter has been included (supporting the /P command line parameter - see above).

Platform support changes:

• Windows 98 and ME are no longer supported. Please see our website download page for an older version supporting Windows 98 and ME.

Bug corrections:

• Corrected a problem introduced in BurnInTest v5.2 where BurnInTest could run out of memory (the main symptom) when tests where run for long periods (> 12hours).
• Resolved an issue where BurnInTest would fail to start on Vista systems with DEP enabled for all programs.
• Corrected a bug introduced in BurnInTest V5.2 where selecting accumulated logging could lead to rebooter failing to launch.
• Corrected a bug where BurnInTest would fail to start on certain Vista systems.
• Corrected a bug where some files (where the full path was not specified) would be incorrectly referenced in the Program Files directory, rather than the User's personal directory.
• A change has been made to support Hmonitor temperature monitoring on Vista.
• WIN64 specific: Corrected a bug where the number of cores reported on a Quad core system was incorrectly reported as CPU packages.

Release 5.2 build 1005, 21/February/2007

Windows Vista support:

• Updated the reported Operating system for the various Vista product editions.
  
• Reduced the need for elevated administrator privileges:
• Changed the location of the disk test files from the root directory of the test volume to a BurnInTest data files subdirectory (e.g from "C:\" to "C:\BurnInTest test files\")
• Moved many of the files from the Program Files directory to the User directory for Windows 2000, XP and Vista. When running BurnInTest on Windows 98, ME or from a key.dat file (e.g. from a USB drive with a licensed key.dat) BurnInTest will store these files in the BurnInTest program directory. Specifically, the following files have been moved from the Program Files directory to the User Personal directory, e.g. Vista - "C:\Users\<username>\Documents\PassMark\BurnInTest\" XP - "My Documents\PassMark\BurnInTest\"
  Files: Configuration file, Configuration load/save default directory, Save log file and image default directory, parallel port override "ioports.dat" directory, default command line script directory, log file directory, video file directory, Plugin directory, machine id file directory, Run as script default directory, CD burn image, Advanced network FTP temp files.
  
• Moved files from the Program files directory for the Advanced Network Test (BurnInTest, EndPoint and CheckEnd). Specifically, the User Application directory is now used for the temporary test FTP files and the User Personal directory is now used for the log and configuration files.
  
• Updated the Graphics card description for Windows Vista systems.
  
• Updated the Advanced Network test to indicate that elevated administrator privileges are required when running on Vista.
  
• Replaced the Help system with Browser based help.
  
• Included a new version of PassMark Rebooter that supports Windows Vista.
  

Disk test improvements:

• The Block size used in the disk test is now configurable per disk. The default block size has been increased from 16KB to 32KB.
  
• Increased the number of disks that can be tested from 20 to 26.
  
• Disk test settings can be configured for "Automatically Select all Hard Disks", rather than using defaults.
  

CD test improvements:

• An option has been added to automatically detect all of the CD and DVD drives for the CD test (as per the disk test). This may be useful when testing across many systems with different optical drive configurations.
  
• When running the CD test under BartPE (Pre-install environment) 4 specific files are skipped as they are unavailable for testing.
  

Other improvements:

• Updated the cleanup process for when running the "zip" version of BurnInTest Professional from a CD or flash drive.
  
• Changed the USB preferences and test to more completely check for the PassMark USB Loopback plugs and ignore any device that is not a PassMark USB Loopback plug (due to reported incorrect detection with another hardware device).
  
• Updated BurnInTest to reflect that Temperature monitoring with Intel Desktop utilities is supported. Intel Desktop utilities essentially is a replacement for Intel Active Monitor for newer Intel motherboards.
  

Bug corrections:

• Disk preferences displayed in the Preferences window could have been incorrect when the system had no Floppy drive.
  
• The Advanced Network test results might not have been displayed until after entering the Duty Cycle selection (ie. just changing from the standard network test to the advanced test).
  
• Temperature information could have been duplicated in the HTML report.
  
• Certain 'save report' warning messages could have been truncated.
  
• In rare cases in Disk preferences, invalid default values could be set for a disk, an invalid value error would occur and the values would need to be manually corrected.

Release 5.1 build 1014, 6/November/2006

• Corrected a bug when running on Vista, where the Standard network test would report a checksum error when the transmitted data was correct.
• The Parallel port test may now be used on Windows x64 Vista. Specifically, the PassMark device driver used for the parallel port test could not be loaded on 64-bit Windows Vista as it was not digitally signed. It is now digitally signed.
• Corrected a bug where BurnInTest would not stop the tests based on the number of test cycles for the Plugin test or the Advanced Network test.
• Changed the preferences Window to fit on an 800x600 resolution screen.
• Made the "Could not set USB2Test mode" USB error message more specific by adding an error for insufficient system resources.
• Corrected a minor bug in Activity level 2 trace logging with the 'hide duplicate' preference setting.
  
• Corrected a minor memory leak if the 2D test failed to initialize (such as due to a DirectX problem).
• Note: The USB 2.0 Loopback device driver V6.1.1 is now digitally signed and can be used on Vista.
  

Release 5.1 build 1013, 8/September/2006

• The "Notes" section has been added to the Customer results certificate.
• Some additional configuration parameter range validation has been added.
  

Release 5.1 build 1012, 15/August/2006

• Corrected a false report of a "Unable to get disk volume extent information" for the disk butterfly seek test.
• Advanced Network test changes for errors: "Corrupt header - packet discarded" and "Advanced Network test timed out"
• Advanced Network test Endpoint changes for problems on non-English Operating Systems and systems with the Windows "Network Interface" performance statistics disabled.
  
• SMART parameters on a Samsung Hard Disk caused BurnInTest to fail when running the disk test with SMART thresholds enabled. This has been corrected.
  
• The 2D scrolling H's test could display corrupt characters on the second and subsequent test run. This has been corrected.
  
• A problem with the Integer maths test where the results could display a negative number of operations has been resolved.
  
• Minor improvements to the help file.
  
• HTML help file added for Windows Vista and Longhorn Server.
  
• Minor improvements to the Error Classification file (error descriptions).
  
• Some CD Trace level 1 logging has been moved to trace level 2.
  
• Trace level 1 logging has been added to the test closing software.
• New build of Endpoint.exe (1.0 1010).

Release 5.1 build 1011, 7/July/2006

• New Advanced Network test error reporting added in the previous build V5.1 1010 has been removed.
• A broader range of USB 2.0 Loopback plugs can now be used with BurnInTest.
  

Release 5.1 build 1010, 4/July/2006

• Corrected the HTML report description of the L2/L3 CPU cache when the L3 cache size could not be determined.

  Advanced network changes:

• Endpoints ran at 100% CPU load as they contained no throttling. This impacted their ability to effectively handle multiple threads handling TCP/UDP messaging. Throttling has been added to the EndPoint side to reduce CPU load. This does not greatly impact Network load.
  
• Throttling on the BurnInTest side contained a sleep that was not insignificant. This could have impacted the BurnInTest data test thread to to handle incoming TCP and particularly UDP messages. This sleep has been reduced and other throttling parameters changed to suit.
• The Test statistics sent from the Endpoint to BurnInTest could fail if the statistics block is split across 2 lower level TCP send packets. This could lead to problems like incorrect reporting of Endpoint determined checksum errors, Endpoint load and load balancing. Further it would lead to an Endpoint test thread being put into an endless TCP send loop. This would eventually stop the Endpoint networking subsystem working as more and more of these test threads go into this state. This has been corrected.
  
• Endpoint systems with x NICs (where x > 1), reported themselves as an Endpoint with x NICs, x times. Effectively registering with BurnInTest as x * x Endpoint NICS. This impacted the effectiveness of the load distribution to Endpoint NICs. An Endpoint system now only registers the once with BurnInTest.
  
• The BurnInTest side did not report data verification Checksum errors in Full Duplex testing. This error determination has been corrected and reporting added.
  
• The Data Received reported by BurnInTest was double counted. This has been corrected.

Release 5.1 build 1009, 23/June/2006

• Plugin test error classifications were incorrect in the log file detailed description.
• Changes to the collection of Disk drive information to to resolve a startup issue on Systems with a large number of physical drives (>10) and 'unusual' WMI namings.
• Advanced Network test corrections.

Release 5.1 build 1005, 2/June/2006

• Corrected a bug in the Advanced network test where the test would not recover from time-out errors. The test appears to be running, but the results are 0 and the number of connected End Points are 0. Also improved the retry on time-out mechanism.
• Removed some duplication in error reporting in the Advanced Network test.
• Changed the Advanced Network display of Utilization to ensure a maximum of 100% displayed.
• Corrected an Advanced Network test bug where the number of Errors reported in the test window would not take into account the corrupt packet threshold, and an error would be added for each occurrence of the corrupt packet (rather than when the user set threshold was reached).
• Corrected the default Advanced network corrupt packet threshold value.
• Updated the data entry fields in the CD preferences when a different CD drive is selected.
• The Advanced Network specific log files should be concatenated for a script run. This was only occurring for the first NIC under test. The concatenation will now occur for each NIC under test, when run from a script.
• Corrected a bug where a log file name specified with no directory path could be incorrect.
• Corrected a bug where the customer "Test Certificate" report incorrectly translated the "%" character from a customer specific HTML template. e.g.<table width="100%" border="0"> would be translated to <table width="100" border="0">.
• The "Advanced Network test error" (215) has been removed and replaced with other existing error messages 214, 219, 220, 221 or 222.
• Added the Customer name and Technician name to the text and HTMl reports. Previously, this information was only included in the "Test Certificate" report.
• We have added a commandline option to specify the Serial port test data as a constant value. To specify specific data for the Serial port test you should specify e.g. "bit.exe /E 23" from the command line where 23 is in decimal and will be used for all test data (instead of random data). The vales should be between 0 and 255.
• Added the COM port speed of 921600 Kbits/s for RS 422/RS485 testing.
• Changed the CD test to ensure that the entire test CD data is not cached on systems with a large amount of RAM.
• Added a -M command line option to display the Machine ID window automatically when BurnInTest starts.
• Changed the 2D EMC scrolling H's test to work on multiple monitors were the resolution on each is different.
• Changed log files such the syntax "..\<filename>" could be used for files in the directory up a level.
• Minor correction to the advanced network test.
• Note: build 1004 was not publicly released.

Release 5.1 build 1003, 18/April/2006

The following new features have been added:

• Added a warning if a test thread completes with 0 cycles and 0 operations.
• BurnInTest will now create the log file directory specified in the Logging Options if it does not exist.
• Color coded errors based on severity in the Detailed event log Window and the HTML log file.
• Added an option to summarize duplicate errors in the log file.
• Added looping capability in scripting.
  LOOP n
  {
  …
  }
  where n is the number of times to repeat the commands in the brackets.
• Updated the reported Operating system descriptions, including: Windows Vista and Windows Server "Longhorn". Digitally signed the BurnInTest application to allow it to run under Windows Server "Longhorn". Note, previously only the installation package was digitally signed.
  
• Added an option to use CTS (Clear To Send) flow control in the loop back stage of the COM port test.
  
• Condensed the Advanced Network Test log files to one log file per IP address per script run, when run from a script.
• Added an option to only create a log file when BurnIn actually runs a test as opposed to every time BurnIn is executed.
• In the results summary html file, inserted more spacing between the “Notes” and “Detailed Event Log”.
• Changed the Activity Trace file format to be the same as the log file, ie. text or HTML, rather than always text.
• The 2D “Scrolling H’s” test will now display across multiple screens/displays i.e. all active displays.
• A threshold has been added for the “corrupt header – packet discarded” event in the advanced network options so that a “Fail” is not produced when that is the only thing that produces errors.
• The Advanced Network Corrupt threshold packet has been changed to produce an error every time the error is received after the threshold is reached.
• Split the "Network, Advanced Network test error" error into 6 errors: "Network, Advanced Network test error", "Advanced Network Socket error", "Advanced Network Send error", "Advanced Network Send error - no data sent", "Advanced Network Receive error", "Advanced Network Receive error - no data received". Added either activity trace 1 or trace 2 logging for each of the errors, with additional information where available.
  
• Added additional Serial port activity trace 2 logging. Including the logging of all transmit buffer data when the /B command line is used.
• Changes to the SMART attribute logging to support a greater range of Disk drive device drivers. Added additional Activity Level 2 trace logging.
• Help file updates (particularly for the Advanced network test).
• Bundled a new version of rebooter.

• Corrections have been made to the translation of V4.0 to V5 configuration files.
  Note: Configuration files in V5.x builds prior to V5.1 1002 could become corrupted if a V4.0 configuration file is loaded.
  
• Corrected a bug where the main Window size and location were not restored on restarting BurnInTest.
  
• Corrected a bug where the CPU L3 cache could be reported as -1.
• Corrected a bug where the Advanced network information was not displayed on the main window when it was run from a script.
  
• Corrected the reporting of "Network, Packet discarded due to corrupt header" as a Network test error.
  
• Corrected a bug where a new log file was not created if (only) the log prefix changed during the running of a script file.
  
• Corrected a bug where PASS could be displayed if the Advanced Network test was the only test running, but it failed.
  

Release 5.0 build 1001, 9/March/2006

• Corrected a bug where Network directory paths were not accepted, eg. for the log file name and post test application file name.
• The CPU maths test has been improved to better load up all CPU's. Previously BurnInTest started a maths test thread per physical CPU package. BurnInTest has been changed to start a maths test thread per CPU (= num. physical CPU packages x num. CPU cores x num. logical CPUs).
• The CPU preferences have been changed to allow the CPU maths test to be locked to any CPU (ie. select a CPU from a list of CPU's where the number of CPU's = num. physical CPU packages x num. CPU cores x num. logical CPUs).
• The Parallel and Serial port error messages have been modified in the case where a test plug may not have been connected to indicate that the user should check this.

Version 5.0 build 1000, 24/February/2006 - MAJOR RELEASE

NEW TESTS & IMPROVEMENTS TO EXISTING TESTS

BurnInTest Standard and Professional versions:

• Added a customer style results certificate. This will save test results in a HTML report for an end customer. This report style can be tailored by the user (through changing an HTML template).
• An MP3 playback test has been added to the Sound test.
• A color printer test has been added.
• Added new post test actions to allow (i) the results to be printed automatically at the end of a test, (ii) automatic actions when a test run is manually stopped and (iii) to allow the result window to be displayed in all cases (except on Reboot).
• Added new pre test actions to allow an external application to be run and have BIT wait for the application to exit. On continuing, BIT will run a subscript file if it has been created. A subscript file is like a BurnInTest script file that only supports a subset of BurnInTest scripting commands. It allows BurnInTest configuration changes to be made as pre-test actions, such as setting the system serial number in BurnInTest.
• Changed the manual Stop button so that is aborts the running of a script (and not just the current test).
• The Memory test pattern can now be specified by the user.

BurnInTest Professional specific:

• Added a "Plugin" test that allows users to develop their own BurnInTest test modules for specialized hardware. Three external Plugins may be specified at once. Tests may be specified as pretest Plugins, such that tests that require manual intervention (e.g. testing the keys on a Keyboard) can be tested before the main set of automated tests.
• A modem test has been added to BurnInTest as a Plugin. PassMark's ModemTest Version V1.3 (latest build) is required.
• A keyboard test has been added to BurnInTest as a Plugin. PassMark's KeyboardTest Version V2.2 (latest build) is required.
• A Firewire Test has been added to BurnInTest as a Plugin. PassMark's free Firewire Plugin is required and a "Kanguru FireFlash" drive is required.
• A new advanced network test has been added.
• Improved support for testing USB ports that have bus corruption. Testing with the USB 2.0 Loopback plug has been improved. When used with USB 2.0 Loopback device driver V2.0.1002, error details will now be reported for:
  • CRC error reported by USB Host controller,
  • BIT STUFF error reported by USB Host controller,
  • DATA TOGGLE MISMATCH error reported by USB Host controller
  • STALL PID error reported by USB Host controller
  • DEVICE NOT RESPONDING error reported by USB Host controller
  • PID CHECK FAILURE error reported by USB Host controller
  • UNEXPECTED PID error reported by USB Host controller
  • DATA OVERRUN error reported by USB Host controller
  • DATA UNDERRUN error reported by USB Host controller
  • BUFFER OVERRUN error reported by USB Host controller
  • BUFFER UNDERRUN error reported by USB Host controller
  • NOT ACCESSED error reported by USB Host controller
  • FIFO error reported by USB Host controller
  • TRANSACTION (XACT) ERROR reported by USB Host controller
  • BABBLE DETECTED error reported by USB Host controller
  • DATA BUFFER ERROR reported by USB Host controller
  In the case of these errors, BurnInTest will re-attempt the operation. The user can set the error reporting to be skipped for the initial recovery attempt.

IMPROVEMENTS TO TESTING FACILITIES

• Added automatic configuration of the disk test, such that when the disk test is started, the disk drives to be tested and their settings will be configured on all available disks (excluding CD/DVD). This can be useful when testing multiple systems with different hard disk drive letters.
• Main window position restored. The position and size of the Main window is now stored on exiting BurnInTest. On starting BurnInTest, the position of the main window is restored.
• Configuration file may be dragged and dropped. The Configuration file may now be "dragged & dropped" directly on to the BurnInTest program icon.
• Increased disk test coverage. The disk test now allows testing of 99.5% to 100% of a disk, instead of 94%, for disks that do not contain the Windows system directory and do not contain a swap file.
• By popular demand, we have added the ability to log interim results, which may be useful for unstable systems that fail mid test.
• AMD and Intel Dual core reporting added.
• New L2 CPU cache sizes added to reports.
• CPU support for SSE3, DEP and PAE added to reports.
• Shortcut of "F1" for contextual help added to all Windows.
• Improved the flexibility in specifying the EXECUTEWAIT scripting command for the PassMark "Sleeper" software.
• Added the hard disk and optical drive model information to the log files.
• The 2D and 3D tests have been updated to use DirectX 9.0c.
• The user interface has been updated.
• The HTML report format has been improved (and is now consistent with PassMark's PerformanceTest software).
• The BurnInTest configuration file extension has been renamed from .cfg to use .bitcfg, to ensure the configuration file is associated with BurnInTest.
• To allow small test files with very large disks, the minimum disk test file size has been reduced from 0.1% to 0.01% of the disk space.
• Log events were previously shown as "INFORMATION" if they were low level errors, or simply additional information (not errors). "INFORMATION" now refers to a low level error, and "LOG NOTE" now refers to additional information (that is not in the error count).
• The specific detail of the Serial Port errors detected has been improved. BurnInTest now reports framing errors, buffer overrun errors, input buffer overflow errors, parity errors and transmit buffer full errors as specific error messages (rather than a broader error description).
• Added the /k command line so the user can specify not to delete hard disk drive test files if an error occurs.
• A new version of the Rebooter program has been bundled with the installation package..
• Improved the Serial port error logging (displaying baud rate) and increased Activity trace level 1 error logging (displaying erroneous data).
• Modified the Window sizes to help improve navigation on smaller displays (i.e. 640x480).
• The CPU load for the Standard and Torture RAM tests has been made more linear with the duty cycle setting. Note: This means that compared to the previous build of BurnInTest, less RAM test operations will be run per second (when the duty cycle is less than 100).
• Additional debug code and very minor changes in the Loopback sound test have been made.
• An error message indicating that accumulated log files are not supported when run from CD or DVD has been added.
• The Post test option of "Run external application and exit" has been modified such that if no external file is specified, this Post test option will just exit BurnInTest.
• Allowed the full range of PassMark USB1 loopback plugs to be used with BurnInTest Professional.
• Increased Activity trace level 1 error logging for Serial port testing.
• Added additional Activity Trace level 2 logging.
• The delay inserted between packets in the USB2 test, when the duty cycle is less than 50, has been changed from at least 1ms to at least 1ms to 50ms (for a Duty Cycle of 49 down to 0).
• The subscript commands to configure BurnInTest from an external application (i.e. specified in the bit-script-input.txt file and run by specifying either a pretest or EXECUTEWAIT application) has been changed to allow "LOAD" commands (in addition to "SET" scripting commands).
• Renamed the "Error" log to "Event" log.
• Changed the order of the items in an Event log line, such that the Severity is the first item.
• The EXECUTEWAIT script command has been modified such that the external application may provide an input script file (of SET... commands) to be run after the EXECUTEWAIT application closes. This allows external applications to define test environment parameters (such as the serial number and machine type).
• Added scripting commands:
  • SETSERIAL "1234-shdfgdhs-GHGHG"
  • SETMACHINETYPE "HP XPS800"
  • SETNOTES "Test notes defined by the external application."
  • SETLOG "\Program Files\Plugin\plugin_log"
  • SETPLUGIN "\Program Files\Plugin\plugin.exe"
• Added POST TEST application parameter substitution to allow values to be passed to an external application at the end of a test. These are:
  • $RESULT - "PASS" or "FAIL" will be substituted.
  • $SERIAL - The serial number will be substituted.
  • $MACHINETYPE - The machine type will be substituted.
  • $NOTES - The notes will be substituted.
• Added extra logging for memory allocation errors in the disk test
• Added "log bad sector increase" and "bad sector threshold" options to disk test. This resulted in a change to the configuration file format and required additional code to automatically convert from old formats.
• Modified the user interface in the preferences window for the disk test and the CD test
• Improved the handling of USB 2.0 loopback plugs recovery from sleep states.

BUG CORRECTIONS

• Corrected a bug where the System and Application events logged in the BurnInTest Trace logs were wrong if the event log had reached its maximum size.
• Checks that the Sound test files (WAV and MIDI) exist have been added.
• The continuous auto updating of the USB image (USB Loopback plug vs. USB 2.0 Loopback plug) on the main window has been removed. This is now updated on BIT startup, selecting Refresh in USB preferences or on starting a test. If there is a serious USB system problem, this (together with the USB 2.0 Loopback device driver, V2.0.1002) will avoid the possibility of BurnInTest locking up.
• Corrected a bug with the Butterfly seek mode of the Disk test. This was found to occur with FAT32 disks where the Cylinder size was relatively small and the Sector size relatively large.
• Reset Defaults on the Configuration Page now resets the Auto Stop Value.
• Reset Defaults on the Configuration Page now resets the color indicators.
• The CD test has been modified to skip invalid files either with "?"'s , to avoid reporting errors that are due to the CD test media filenames (being in non-English characters on the English version of Windows).
• The Network test results window scroll bar has been corrected.
• The Memory torture test could fail on some systems with a small amount of RAM and relatively high memory fragmentation. This has been corrected.
• Scripting correction for .cmd files.
• Corrected a bug that caused problems when running the disk test with SMART monitoring turned on. This problem only occurs on a small number of HDD's.
• Corrected memory leaks
• On occasion, the measured waveform from the loopback sound test may have been slightly altered on starting or stopping all tests, possibly enough to trigger an error. This has been resolved.
• If an error occurred in the final second of a test, the error may have been logged but not included in the big PASS/FAIL results window. This has been corrected.
• After running a script file that loaded a configuration file, that had a full path specified, the Save and Load configuration menu options no longer worked. This has been corrected.
• Previously, the Version of BurnInTest was only written in the First log file after starting BurnInTest. This log line is now written in all log files.
• For USB2 tests that have read or write failures, the Windows error codes are now included in the level 2 Activity trace log.
• Command line parameters may now be passed to a PreTest application.
• Log files may now use a single static filename. This may be useful when the log file is to be parsed by an external program.
• Corrected a bug where the Plugin test would stop prematurely.
• Corrected the specification of the Scripting EXECUTEWAIT filename.
• Changed Script processing such that a script is aborted if a scripting error is encountered and Stop on error is selected.
• Added an indication on the main window that a script is currently running ("Script currently running").
• Corrected the serial port test to identify non-existing plugs when the Disable RTS/CTS and DSR/DTR testing has been selected.
• Added BIT version number to the ASCII log file.
• Fixed a bug with the 3D Test that was causing it to stop before the autostop timer period
• Changed an error in the tape drive test to a warning if tape drive doesn't support setting drive parameters.

Release 4.0 build 1032, 23/November/2005

• Corrected a rare licensing problem that prevented BurnInTest from starting.
  Added the script command to set the duty cycle for the video test, e.g SETDUTYCYCLE VIDEO 100
  

Release 4.0 build 1031, 12/September/2005

• Corrected a bug where the maths test could have caused undefined behaviour (such as closing), on systems with 8 or more physical CPUs (= #CPU packages x #CPU cores).
• Updated the version of "rebooter".
  

Release 4.0 build 1030, 4/July/2005
Release 4.0 build 1029, 1/July/2005

• Corrected a bug with serial port test displaying PASS when an error is reported. This only occurs if the serial port test encounters an error between the time the test has been flagged to stop by the automatic stop timer and when it does stop (up to a couple of seconds), and there is only one error reported.
  

Release 4.0 build 1028, 7/June/2005

• Corrected a bug with the Loopback test mode of the Sound test. If this test was started, and then stopped before it had fully started (within a couple of seconds), in some circumstances BurnInTest may have just exited.
  

Release 4.0 build 1027, 25/May/2005

• Corrected a bug with the Parallel port test, under Windows 98, where the manually configured parallel port address from the IOPorts.dat file is not used (and the test fails indicating the port does not exist). This only occurs if the BurnInTest Parallel port detection mechanism can not detect any Parallel ports (rare).
  

Release 4.0 build 1025, 19/May/2005

• Corrected a bug with the Butterfly seek mode of the Disk test. This was found to occur with FAT32 disks where the Cylinder size was relatively small and the Sector size relatively large.
  

Release 4.0 build 1024, 22/February/2005

• Logged CPU features have been updated to include new Intel CPU Level 2 cache codes (sizes). For example, for Extreme Edition CPU's.
• Corrected a bug where Serial number, Machine type and Notes were not displayed in the log file after exiting and restarting BurnInTest.
• Corrected a bug where the Memory torture test could fail on some systems with a small amount of RAM and relatively high memory fragmentation.
  

Release 4.0 build 1023, 22/December/2004

• Corrected a bug that caused problems when running the disk test with SMART monitoring turned on. This problem only occurs on a small number of HDD's.
  

Release 4.0 build 1022, 20/December/2004

• Corrected a memory leak related to Temperature monitoring and the HDD butterfly seek test. This may lead to a system running out of memory after approximately 8 to 48 of continual testing.
  

Release 4.0 build 1021, 14/December/2004

• Corrected a memory leak that would lead to "Disk, not enough memory for buffer" type errors after many hours of continual testing.
• Corrected the serial port test to identify non-existing plugs when the Disable RTS/CTS and DSR/DTR testing has been selected.
  

Release 4.0 build 1020, 2/December/2004

• Allowed the full range of PassMark USB1 loopback plugs to be used with BurnInTest Professional.
  

Release 4.0 build 1019, 20/September/2004

• Corrected strange error results reported by a user (related to copy protection).

Release 4.0 build 1018, 13/September/2004

• Improved the error handling of the CD test when BurnInTest is run from the CD under test.
• Increased logging for Butterfly disk seeking errors.

Release 4.0 build 1017, 7/September/2004.

• Improved the error handling of the CD test when BurnInTest is run from the CD under test.
• Corrected a bug when removing serial ports in preferences.

Release 4.0 build 1015, 24/June/2004.

• Changes to the USB 2 test, particularly increased activity trace level 2 logging.
• Corrected some of the preferences boundary values, like 0.1 for disk file size.
• When the command line options /R (start test without message) and /S (specify a script file) were used together, the /S was ignored. This has been corrected.
• When a script file is specified with the /S <filename> command line parameter, and no path was specified with <filename>, this would fail. This has been corrected to default to the bit.exe directory when no path is specified.
• When a LOAD <configuration filename> is used within a script file to load a new configuration during the execution of the script, if no path was specified with <configuration filename>, this would fail under certain circumstances. This has been corrected to default to the bit.exe directory when no path is specified.

Release 4.0 build 1014, 24/May/2004.

• When "Action on Error" is set to "Auto-Stop tests", "Action after Auto-Stop" (passed or failed) is set to "Stop Tests" an executing script will now be stopped (rather than stopping just the current test).
• USB testing using the PassMark USB 2.0 loopback plug has been modified such that specifying a duty cycle of less than 50 will insert a short delay between each packet. This has been added to allow the simultaneous load to be reduced to help determine USB chipset and/or BIOS limitations when under very high load.

Release 4.0 build 1013, 29/April/2004.

• Number of Serial ports that can be tested increased from 12 to 64 (PRO version only).
• BurnInTest is distributed with a default test configuration file. The existence of default drives is now checked and non-existent drives removed from the test list.

Version 4.0 build 1012, 16/April/2004.

• Total physical memory size was incorrectly reported on some PC's with greater than 2GB of physical memory installed. This has been corrected.
• Added reporting of Intel CPU Level 3 cache size.
  

Version 4.0 build 1011, 1/April/2004.

• Minor changes of the USB Loopback test. These relate to the upgrade of the USB Loopback plug (blue plug) device drivers to V2.0.0.0. Improvements have also been made with the error handling after a USB loopback plug is disconnected during a test.
  Note: It is recommended that V4.0 build 1011 or above of BurnInTest be used with V2.0.0.0 of the USB loopback plug device drivers.

Version 4.0 build 1010, 18/March/2004.

• Change to allow the registration of a valid username/key even when the system clock setting is incorrect.
• Correction to resizing of the Log Details window.
• Correction to reported error count for the random seeking test mode of the disk test. Increased activity level 2 tracing for the random seek test mode.

Version 4.0 build 1009, 25/February/2004

• Rare USB2.0 loopback test bug corrected.

Version 4.0 build 1008, 23/February/2004

• The disk drive Butterfly seeking test mode requires the disk device driver to support the control code for supplying DISK_GEOMETRY_EX information. Some disks do not support this control code and the older control code is now also attempted. If both fail, a new error message is displayed indicating that the Butterfly test is not supported by this disk drive. This replaces the error "Unable to get disk geometry". This 'INFORMATION' level error may be ignored by editing the BITClassification.txt file.

Version 4.0 build 1007, 18/February/2004

• Corrected a bug where an old version of sensorDLL.dll on some Intel Motherboard PC's would crash BurnInTest on startup.
• Changed the number of 2D graphics operations per cycle to 20% of previous the previous value.
• Changed the number of Parallel port operations per cycle to 60% of previous the previous value.
• Corrected a bug that only allowed 19 hard disks to be tested, instead of 20.

Version 4.0 build 1006, 6/February/2004

• Text of Log Clearing options in Logging preferences changed to better reflect functionality. Option added: Clear test results and create new log.
• Improved the USB test error handling such that when a USB loopback plug or a USB 2.0 loopback plug is unplugged and re-plugged during a test, automatic device detection is attempted and allows the test to continue when possible.
• Stop button removed from being on top of the EMC Video Display Unit test.

Version 4.0 build 1005, 20/January/2003

• Splash screen image of the Standard ed. of BurnInTest corrected (indicated PRO).
• Number of logical processors (Hyperthreading) now displayed in log files.

Version 4.0 build 1004, 8/January/2004 - MAJOR RELEASE

NEW TESTS & IMPROVEMENTS TO EXISTING TESTS

A large number of the tests have been improved to be more comprehensive or convenient to use. These are:

• CD-RW burn test added with Quick/Full format, 650/700MB and random seek options.
  
• USB 2.0 HighSpeed (480Mb/s) testing supported with PassMark's USB 2.0 Loopback plug.
  
• Looped Video playback test introduced, to detect codec support, playback errors and dropped frames.
  
• New disk test modes including random data tests with random seeking and butterfly seeking to more thoroughly exercise disk drives. The disk duty cycle may now be set per disk (with an override feature).
  
• New CD/DVD test modes including random data tests with random seeking.
  
• Maths/CPU test now supports test threads per CPU & CPU duty cycles scaling more consistent with CPU utilization.
  
• MMX test now supports CPU duty cycles scaling more consistent with CPU utilization.
  
• Parallel Port test changed to allow automatic detection of non-sequential LPT port numbers and non-standard IO addresses. In Windows 2000 and above, automatic support of add-on Parallel ports (eg. using PCI cards) is also provided. Retries have been added to the locking of the Parallel port.
  
• Serial port test now includes baud rate cycling.
  
• Sound test now reports a greater range and detail of test error conditions.
  
• 2D test now reports a greater range and detail of test error conditions. A new 2D test option to skip 2D frame errors has been added.

IMPROVEMENTS TO TESTING FACILITIES

• The main BurnInTest errors are now categorized into, None, Information, Warning, Serious and Critical. The error text and this classification may be changed to better suit the customers test environment. Certain errors may now be configured to be ignored as errors.
  
• Periodic disk Logging has been replaced with a more comprehensive and flexible set of reporting/logging features. This includes:
  o User selectable reporting level (4 levels from summary to almost code debug).
  o Errors are now written in real time (as opposed to every x minutes).
  o Advanced log file naming now allows log files to be automatically prefixed with user defined text or certain environment variables.
  o Additional information added to the reports, such as, a PASS/FAIL column per test and a summary of serious and critical errors per test or script run.
  
• Scripting is now more comprehensive. This includes:
  o Introduced new scripting commands, EXECUTE & EXECUTEWAIT, to allow external applications to be started from a BurnInTest script.
  o Introduced new scripting commands, REBOOT & REBOOTEND, to allow reboots of the PC to be included into scripts.
  o Introduced new scripting command, LOG, to generate a user text message in the log history, to aid log interpretation.
  o Modification of scripting to display PASS/FAIL at the completion of the script.
  o Scripted testing may now be run from the command line.
  o Added a PASS/FAIL message to log files for script runs.
  
• Added automatic stop based on all tests reaching a user defined number of test cycles. Added a new scripting command, SETCYCLES, to also support this from a script.
  
• Support for additional 3rd party temperature monitoring software applications. Intel Active Monitor, Mother Board Monitor (MBM) and SpeedFan.
  
• Extra command line options to position the main window and set the test duration.
  
• Improved the error reporting for disk and CD tests when there are insufficient system resources.
  
• A number of User interface improvements have been made: such as complete new look main window, consistency of style across test windows, updated progress bars UI color changes, large stop button always on top, disk drive volume labels displayed,
  

BUG CORRECTIONS

• Start time, test duration, stop time and Temperature results (eg. Minimum and Maximum) now accumulated across multiple tests (when accumulate logs specified).
  
• Fixed a bug with network test preferences tab preventing very small values being entered for the bad packet ratio.
  
• Correction of a bug where the failure to initialize DirectDraw would lead to incorrect behavior.
  
• AWE memory test progress bar changes for greater than 4GB memory.
  
• Corrected a bug that appeared when disk or CD tests were run with multiple disks, followed by removing a disk in preferences, the previous results were mapped to the incorrect drive.
  
• With a large number of tests, the bottom of the main window was overwritten on the starting of tests. This has been corrected.
  
• Corrected a bug where the disk test may display a negative speed very briefly at the start of the test.
  
• Corrected Preferences mouse over text.
  
• Corrected a bug where the USB port name was not correctly shown as "NA" when the USB1 device drivers were not installed.
  
• Corrected a bug that prevented a scripted SLEEP after a floppy disk was tested.

 

Version 3.2 build 1000 Std &Pro edition, 5/May/2003

• The video card description and screen resolution are included in the exported results.
• Fixed up problem with the display of the CPU serial number for PIII machines.
• Fixed up bug in default configuration file which prevented additional drives being displayed until the duty cycle window had been used.
• Fixed bug with icon for 3D graphics test.
• Updated CPU detection routine for correct detection of L2 cache in new CPUs.
• Fixed bug in disk test. For multiple disks with a low duty cycle, only the first disk test was sleeping for the correct amount of time.
• Added two new options in the 2D Graphics test which enable direct writing, reading and verifying of video memory. Local graphics adapter memory only, or all video memory can be tested. (Pro version only)
• Added checking of SMART disk parameters and option of logging SMART details such as power on hours, drive temperature, drive serial number and model number.
• Added additional error codes for the parallel port test

Version 3.1 build 1005 Pro edition, 21/Feb/2003

• Extra CD drive detection option for basic testing without a disc in the CD/DVD drive.
• Added detection only test for serial and parallel ports for when loopback plugs are not available.
• Minor bug fix to correct a problem stopping the final log file being written in some cases.

Version 3.1 build 1002 Std & Pro edition, 27/Jan/2003

• Major Bug fix. Under very high load a memory management fault can suddenly close down BurnInTest.
• Minor Bug fix. Default configuration contained wrong path for midi and wave sound files. Preventing the sound from working.
• If hardware acceleration was not available for the DirectX 3D test, this produced and error. Now it is just a warning.
• Minor Bug fix. Corrected memory torture test error message formatting problem.
  

Version 3.1 build 1000 Std & Pro edition, 13/Jan/2003

• New parallel port device driver was implemented in order to block the Windows XP operating system and other processes simultaneously accessing the parallel port and causing corruption. (Previous work around solution was removed from the code).
• New mode in Audio test which allows loopback testing with the use of an audio loopback cable.
• DirectX test now uses DirectX 8 rather than the older DirectX 3. This should give much better compatibility with new video cards but stops BurnInTest working on Windows NT and Windows 95.
• Auto-stop timer was changed from a integer to a floating point number in order to allow very short tests. (0.5min = 30sec)
• There is an extra option in the preferences window to turn off the startup window or select an external file to run before the start of testing.
• The CD / External drive auto-play feature in Windows is disabled, when BurnInTest is the active application.
• Some blue screen errors (like disk corruption) and the Windows Abort / Retry / Ignore error window are now captured by BurnIntest and reported as errors.
• Disk transfer rates are now reported in the disk test window
• There is now an option in the preferences window to report an error on low disk transfer rates.
• The disk and CD preferences have been seperated onto two different tabs in the preferences window.
• It is now possible to set the USB transmission timeout value from the preferences window.
• Basic test scripting from text files has been introduced. See the help file for details.
• Bug fix. Cycle count for serial test was often reported as being 1 cycle too high
• Improvement in reporting of errors for standard RAM test
• There is now an option to include a cover page for each job send to the printer.
• The standard printer test now draws a rectangle around the very edge of the printable section of the page.
• Workaround implemented for Windows virtual memory fragmentation problem when using standard memory test & large amount of physical RAM. (>1GB). Advanced test should be used when possible however.

Version 3.0 build 1007 Pro edition, 23/July/2002

• Auto-stop timer was changed from a integer to a floating point number in order to allow very short tests. (e.g. 0.5min = 30sec)
• Bug fix in the parallel test. It was reporting errors 100% of the time (this was a new bug introduced in build 1005)

Version 3.0 build 1005 Std & Pro edition, 12/July/2002

• Memory Torture Test was introduced (Pro version only)
• New option to disable the signal pin checking for serial ports and increase the timeout before flagging an error.
• Bug correction for auto-reboot in Test Passed case. (BurnInTest should have rebooted but didn't)
• Bug correction for printing problem in Windows 98.

Version 3.0 build 1002 Std & Pro edition, 30/May/2002

• USB loopback testing. (PassMark USB loopback plugs are required to use this function)
• New advanced memory test allowing RAM testing beyond the 4GB barrier in Windows 2000 and XP
• New updated look to the user interface of the main window
• Bug fix to save as bitmap function
• Ability to test printers using a raw printer command file
• The machine name is now displayed in the main window
• Basic sound testing with Midi and wave playback
• Testing of up to 20 hard and floppy disks simultaneously.
• Combining of the floppy disk and hard disk test
• User friendly drive letter selection for CD/DVD and disk test
• User controllable pattern selection for disk testing
• User controllable file size for disk testing
• CD / DVD testing using specialized test CD/DVDs (and the release of CD-Maker to complement this function)
• Testing of up to 20 CD/DVD drives simultaneously.
• Windows shutdown and cyclic reboot testing. (and the release of Rebooter to complement this function)
• Scrolling 'H's for Electromagnetic Compliance Testing to ANSI standard C63.4-1992
• Improved logging, with detailed logs and log file accumulation across reboots.
• The network test can now generate an alarm, when an threshold is crossed, rather than per packet.
  

Version 2.3 Build 1006 Std & Pro edition, 4/Mar/2002

• Fixed a bug in the RAM test allocating the wrong about of RAM with machines with > 429MB of RAM.
• Fix a bug in the disk test. The test would not function correctly on disks > 200GB
• Optimised RAM test to increase test speed
• Added extra error checking on incoming network test packets
  

Version 2.3 Build 1000 Std & Pro edition, 29/Oct/2001

• Support for Windows XP
• Support for LPT3 (a 3rd parallel port)

Version 2.2 Build 1006 Std & Pro edition, 21/Sept/2001

• A floppy disk drive letter is no longer mandatory in the Preferences window
• BatteryMon and BurnInTest integration. BurnInTest can now log battery charge statistics from PassMark BatteryMon
• Bug fix to CPU type detection. Some early model Pentium II 300Mhz were reported as being Celerons.

Version 2.2 Build 1005 Std & Pro editions, 25/July/2001

• Fixed bug that caused PASSED to be displayed even if there was an error in the network test.
• Added option to call external executable file when tests have completed. (see timer preferences).

Version 2.2 Build 1004 Pro edition, 22/June/2001

• Fixed counter display bug in SSE Multiply test.
• Added Tape and Tape Media information windows.
• Changed tape test block size to 64KB or maximum drive will allow if 64KB is too large (this improves tape throughput).
• Changed tape test to skip free space check on tape drives that can't report free space.
• New tape test option to use or not use filemarks.

Version 2.2 Build 1003 Std & Pro editions, 26/May/2001

• Update to make BurnInTest work with latest version of HMonitor temperature monitoring software (V4.0.1).

Version 2.2 Build 1002 Std & Pro editions, 7/Apr/2001

• Less aggressive memory grabbing.
• Serial port timeouts can now be set by the user in the preferences window.
• Extra logging info for memory allocations and serial port errors in errorlog.txt file.

Version 2.2 Build 1001 Std & Pro editions, 10/Feb/2001

• Fixed a bug in the disk test that caused a memory leak (eventually crashing BurnInTest).
• Added an option to skip the tape locking step in the tape drive test. (Pro version only).

Version 2.2 Build 1000 Std & Pro editions, 1/Feb/2001

• Improved error logging to "ErrorLog.txt" file for some tests.
• Multiple disks can now be tested simultaneously.
• Multiple serial ports can now be tested simultaneously (Pro version).
• Tape drives can now be tested. (Pro version with NT and 2000 only).
• Multiple network addresses can now be tested simultaneously.
• CPU selection is now possible. Tests can now be restricted to run on a single CPU in multi CPU machines. (Pro version)
• Support for WindowsME.
• Support for detection of Pentium4 and Duron CPUs.
• Detection of CPU serial number if available in CPU. The serial# is included in log files.
• Addition of SSE 128Bit and 3DNow! maths tests.
• The preferences window was redone with multiple tabs and more options.
• A new feature was added to the CD test, allowing data CDs or Music CDs to be used.
• The RAM and Disk tests were improved by the addition of several test patterns. For each cycle a new test pattern is selected.
• It is now possible to set a timeout period for the network test.

Version 2.1 Pro - 30/Oct/2000

• 'Pro' version first released.

Version 2.1 (Build 1001) - 30/Aug/2000

• Bug fix with keeping selected Log format between runs of BurnInTest.
• Bug fix with handling an unformatted floppy disk.
• Bug fix causing multiple PASSED/FAILED windows, when tests take a long time to clean up.
• Bug fix with network test to avoid blocking on some error conditions.
• Better window refresh rate in Network test window to avoid flashing.

Version 2.1 (Build 1000) - 27/Aug/2000

• BurnInTest was split into a standard version and a professional version. The professional version was the same as the standard version except that parallel and serial loop back tests are added.
• A new command line parameter was added, /r. This starts tests running automatically on startup.
• A new parallel port loop back test was added. (an additional external plug and the Pro version of the software are required for this test).
• A new serial port loop back test was added. (an additional external plug and the Pro version of the software are required for this test).
• New Pentium III CPU’s are now identified.
• The "test failed" window is now displayed at the autostop time if an error occurred. Previously the "test failed" window would only be displayed if the "Stop on Error" check box was set.
• A new option to have multiple log files with Date and time stamping in the file name has been included.
• Machine type and serial numbers can now be entered into a new dialog box. (so an audit trail can be maintained). The information entered is stored in log files and displayed in the main window.
• Results can be saved as text and HTML format from the Save as Log menu.

Version 2.0 - 20/April/2000

• A large green flashing "PASSED" window now pops up when the test period ends and there were no errors.
• A large red flashing "FAILED" window now pops up when the test period ends and there was an error. If BurnInTest is set to stop on errors, then the message will be displayed when the first error is encountered.
• A date and time stamp and CPU Level 2 cache size has been added to the ASCII log file.
• Extensive updates to this help file.
• Dual CPU support was added for speed and temperature measurement. In V1.0 only a single CPU would be reported on.
• Better CPU speed measurement. In some configurations, such as multiple CPU systems, V1.0 was reporting the wrong speed. The test is now much more accurate on all systems. In some cases we can even measure to 1/10th of a Mhz.
• We went into partnership with the Hmonitor (hardware monitor) people, to do temperature monitoring. When running BurnInTest with Hmonitor, the main window and the log file will record the CPU(s) temperature.
• The visual appearance of the main window was improved.
• Command line parameters can now be used to specify configuration file that will be loaded at startup.
• The menu options were rearranged into more logical groupings.
• Allowed test configuration files to be saved and loaded. This allows multiple test configurations to be supported.
• A Network connection test was added to test your networking hardware and software.
• A Memory test was added to test the available RAM in the computer.
• Shareware period extended to 30days (it was 15days in V1.0).
• A registration button was added in the toolbar.
• Improved 256 color Icons for each test window and the main window. Each Icon for each test window is now unique which is a big help when using ALT-TAB to switch Windows.
• Fixed up a problem when ALT-F4 was used to close the test windows. Now the key combination ALT-F4 can be used to stop all tests from any BurnInTest window.
• Fixed a minor bug with the Autostop function not stopping if the main window was not visible.
• Fixed a bug that was stopping the hard disk slide bar in duty cycle window acting independently of floppy disk setting.
• Re-Wrote the CD Test to better detect error conditions.
• Allowed the selection of a particular CD player to test. In V1.0 the first CD Player was always used, now any available CD-Player can be selected.

Version 1.0 - 11/Sept/99

• First version released to the world.