Passmark’s BurnInTest ™ for Linux is a software tool that allows all the major sub-systems of a computer to be simultaneously tested for reliability and stability.

• Assists in PC Troubleshooting and diagnostics.
• The best 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 overclocking).

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Feature Description:

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, with the loss of documentation, customer details and financial records.

What BurnInTest Test 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 the 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 can also be used by overclockers to verify system stability at high clock speeds.

BurnInTest tests the CPU via mathematical operations, hard drives, RAM, CD ROMs, DVDs, 2D graphics, 3D graphic, network connection, serial port and parallel port.. This can all be done simultaneously as the application is multithreaded. Serial and parallel loop back plugs are required for serial and parallel port loopback testing.

Additional Features

The application includes the following additional features:

• PDF manual
• Logging of results to disk in user selectable levels of detail (in ASCII format & HTML formats)
• Timed test runs that will stop automatically at the expiry of the selected time or after a number of test cycles.
• The ability to save your results to disk as log file.
• 'Notes' and 'Machine ID' fields for storing your own audit information along with the saved log file.
• Support for copying the results to other applications (eg. MS-Word) as text data.
• The ability to select the level of load placed on each component, via the setting of a duty cycle for each test.
• Counters that count the total number of operations performed.
• An easy to use point and click interface
• Summary system information including CPU type and CPU speed.
• Testing of up to 20 hard and floppy disks simultaneously
• Testing of up to 20 CD/DVD drives simultaneously
• Testing of up to 64 serial ports simultaneously
• CD / DVD testing using specialized test CD/DVDs

Tests included

• Memory
• Disk
• Network
• 2D Graphics
• 3D Graphics (Open GL)
• Serial Port
• Parallel Port
• CD-ROM/DVD
• CPU-Maths

Command Line Version

There is a command line version of BurnInTest Linux available that does not use a Graphical User Interface so it does not require an Xwindows / KDE environment to run. The config file is text based and can be edited with any test editor. The command line version also has a native 64 bit version and can access more than 4GB of memory for testing.

As it does not require a graphical environment the 2D and 3D graphics tests are unavailable in this version. But it can be run from the Linux shell via Telnet.

Both the 32bit and 64bit command line versions are included free when you purchase BurnInTest for Linux. The same license key will will work in the graphical version and the command line versions of the software.

Download Command Line Version (1.1 MB)