Version 8.1 build 1025, 21/December/2017
- Fixed a crash that could occur when launching from the command line and connecting to the management console (on test finish)
- Fixed a bug where incorrect available memory values could be displayed on some 64bit systems
Version 8.1 build 1024, 11/August/2017
- Changed PassMark web links from HTTP to HTTPS
- Updated system information library with some changes;
- Added temperature offsets for Ryzen ThreadRipper chipsets
- Added support for obtaining CPU info for Skylake-X chipset
- Fixed bug with measuring base/turbo speeds
- Fixed a bug where temperature average was not calculated for systems with multiple CPUs
Version 8.1 build 1023, 20/July/2017
- Fixed a logging bug where errors logged against physical disks with numbers > 9 would not show both digits in the log message
- Fixed a possible crash in during close/cleanup when the management console was enabled
- Fixed a problem with management console preferences not allowing https addresses to be entered
- Fixed a display bug where the drive letter displayed in the HTML logs could not match the display
- Fixed an issue when reading system information (SMBIOS information such as BIOS version) on UEFI only systems
- Made some changes in the network test to fix an overflow that could coccur in the max delay timing calculation which could show a max delay higher than the current timeout value when no error occured.
Version 8.1 build 1022, 3/April/2017
- Applied USB Timeout set in USB preferences to USB3 benchmark test
- Fixed a missing default config file error message at startup
- Fixed a crash that could occur during system information collection in 32bit
- Fixed a bug causing a manual stop to be treated as automatic when running a script and using the toolbar stop button
Version 8.1 build 1021, 17/March/2017
- Added syncronization to the USB3 test threads (plugs begin with benchmark read, when all plugs finished the benchmark read test, they will start benchmark write, and then loopback test)
- USB3 test threads will wait for all plugs to enumerate and get ready before beginning loopback and benchmark tests
- Increased USB3 plug reenumeration timeout from 5 to 10 seconds
- Added "Ignore USB recoverable failures" to the USB configuration tab
Version 8.1 build 1020, 23/December/2016
- Changed "Operating system" in the HTML customer certificate to "Test operating system" and will only print customer and technician fields if they are filled in
- Enabled 8b/10b error reporting in USB3 test
- Made some changes to better track when USB3 devices are connected or disconnected (eg forced disconnection by error) during testing
- Fixed a possible 32bit overflow error when displaying the sent and received byte count for USB3 test operations
- Fixed a USB3 issue when device is enumerated due to high number of link layer errors (more than 64 link layer errors per 100msec)
- Fixed a bug in USB2 test where inbuffer/outbuffer was overwritten by IOCTL_EZUSB_GET_LAST_ERROR after read/write failure which caused some trace logging inconsistencies
- Fixed a scripting bug where numbers with decimal points were not being parsed correctly (like disk test file size)
Version 8.1 build 1019, 25/October/2016
- Now properly signalling a manual stop to the script so post test actions will be followed correctly, previously all stops during a script were treated as "Automatic"
- Fixed a bug when USB3 plug fails benchmark mode in USB high-speed mode, this could cause an error if using the USB3 plugs on a USB2 port when the test switched from benchmark to loopback
- Reduced the amount of time the 2D test will wait between tests when on a low duty cycles
- Fixed a window redraw issue where the 2D lines and bitmaps test was not always updating correctly after the lines test on some systems
- Fixed some display issues (wrong hard drive letter shown) sometimes when a test config was created from default or moved between system with different disk setups
Version 8.1 build 1018, 8/August/2016
- Fixed a bug with detecting and starting serial port tests when running in WinPE on some systems
- Changed the behaviour of the raw disk test when running in WinPE to be the same as running in a full version of Windows, now the RAW disk test will run on a disk that contains partitions unless there are windows files detected.
- Fixed a possible long wait for system information sometimes when launching BurnInTest
Version 8.1 build 1017, 21/July/2016
- Fixed a bug where the USB error count could be reset during a test cycle
- Fixed a bug when scripting multiple reboots was not always processing each reboot correctly
- Changed the "Butterfly test skipped" warning message to information level so it is logged but not counted as a warning
- Changed the default sample period for temperature collection to 10 seconds (from 1 second). This can prevent crashes on some systems where frequent temperature polling can cause a device driver crash.
Version 8.1 build 1016, 20/June/2016
- Added a benchmark test phase as part of the USB3 test to report maximum USB3 speed obtainable
- Added USB3 low level error reporting to the trace level log
- Support for USB3 V2.0 firmware. Which amoung other improvements brings higher USB throughput.
- Added new error message to 2D test when EMC + test pattern test is selected and only 1 monitor is present
- Added OBEX FTP transfer type to bluetooth test
- Made some changes to disk test to skip butterfly test when running Cylic pattern and an SSD is detected
- Fixed a bug where the advanced net test window was not updating the statistics when running the test on a teamed group of network cards. Sent/Recv is now displayed but load and load balancing is not available (missing performance counters).
Version 8.1 build 1015, 3/May/2016
- Now filtering "Bluetooth" named network cards from "All available ethernet" and "All available 802.11" network test options
- Now filtering "Microsoft Virtual" adapters from all network test options to ignore "Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter" and "Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter"
- Removed whitespace padding in some HTML output
- Fixed a bug with management console initial connect not sending all the system information sometimes
- Updated system information library, fixes a bug that was preventing some NVMe hard drive temperatures from being read
Version 8.1 build 1014, 22/April/2016
- PCIe test changed to be compatible with PCIe firmware version 2.0.1000.0. PCIe cards with older firmware version will need to use an older build of BurnInTest or have their firmware updated
- Changed a GPGPU error to show an error code where available
- Added unique error message when failing to play back MP3 file for sine wave tone in 2D reference test pattern
- Fixed a crash in the 2D EMC - scrolling characters test when there were more than 4 monitors connected to a system (test still only supports 4 monitors)
- Fixed a bug when using the plugin option "Ignore no operations" with pre-test plugins could see a "no operations" error still occur during the normal test phase (after the pre test plugins had finished)
- Changed text box contents on pass/fail window to pass or fail to assist automated scripting programs getting the result
- Filtered out Microsoft virtual adapters "Microsoft Hosted Network Virtual Adapter" and "Microsoft Wi-Fi Direct Virtual Adapter" from network test
- Fixed a bug when the webcam test was used in a script that would prematurely end the main tests
Version 8.1 build 1013, 23/March/2016
- Removed some unnecessary 2D trace level 2 information from the log
- Stopped an incorrect error being logged for the midi sound test in some cases that was occurring after the tests have been stopped
- Fixed a bug in the raw disk read only test where the test would attempt to read past the end of the disk in some cases (if the total amount of bytes on the disk was exactly divisible by 64MB)
- Changed how the USB3 device handles are opened, they are now created before starting the test threads to prevent the UI locking up once the load on the USB system becomes heavy when starting lots of plugs at 100%
- System information library updates
- Temperature support for NVMe drives
- Added retrieval of Device Info + SMART values for NVMe Samsung and Intel SSD drives
- Fixed an issue with multiple network cards not being displayed in system information
Version 8.1 build 1012, 15/January/2016
- Fixed some clipping issues with the OK/Error buttons in the webcam test
- Fixed a bug stopping a script or test from finishing correctly when running the webcam test
- Fixed a bug preventing the MAC address of network cards being displayed in the system information
- Fixed a bug where the fullscreen resolution setting when running the 3D test in fullscreen
(non windowed) mode was being ignored and the test would run at the default resolution
Version 8.1 build 1011, 10/December/2015
- Added extra logging on memory verification errors
- Added IP addresses display for network cards in system information
- Added simple HTTPS authentication entry method to the management console, a windows username/password entry dialog will be displayed when authentication is required
- Made some changes to log less 2D errors for memory corruption (eg if driver crashes). Instead of logging an error for each 4 byte address failure will now log one error with a total count in the error message
- Fixed a bug where if a script was automatically stopped on an error condition (using "SETERRORS ACTION stop") it would flag the stop as a manual (not auto) stop which would cause a message box prompt to be displayed before running a post test application rather than launching it automatically.
Version 8.1 build 1010, 28/September/2015
- Added BIOS serial number to system information display
- Fixed a MIDI error in windows 10 that was caused by the system information library used by BurnInTest when reading hard disk temperatures
- Corrected a display and test start issue when loading a config file with "Auto select" hard drives enabled
Version 8.1 build 1009, 31/August/2015
- Added SETDISKDESTRUCTIVE script keyword to allow physical disks to be selected for raw disk testing
- Fixed a bug stopping more than 50 disks from being selected for testing (current test limit is 80)
- Fixed a bug in the "Random data, random seeking" test pattern that could cause verification errors in large (>4GB) test files
Version 8.1 build 1008, 12/August/2015
- Corrected a bug introduced in v8.1.1006 where BurnInTest
would not start on Windows XP.
Version 8.1 build 1006, 5/August/2015
- Added additional Intel i3/i5/i7 Broadwell desktop, Xeon
E3 and AMD Kaveri refresh CPU system information.
Version 8.1 build 1005, 3/August/2015
- Correction to the Operating system displayed for the
latest Windows 10 releases.
- Added additional Intel Skylake CPU specific system
information.
Version 8.1 build 1004, 27/July/2015
- Added Intel Skylake CPU specific system information.
- Improved the memory test error messages to include
leading "0"s for the read and expected values.
- System information updated to support displaying video
card memory greater than 4GB.
- Memory SPD information Jedec manufacture ID list
updates.
Version 8.1 build 1003, 17/July/2015
- 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.
Version 8.1 build 1002, 15/July/2015
- 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.
Version 8.1 build 1001, 8/July/2015
- Minor improvements and corrections to the PCIe test.
Version 8.1 build 1000, 6/July/2015
- 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.
Version 8.0 build 1046, 19/June/2015
- Correction to the "SETNETWORK" scripting command for setting
the "LOOPBACK" test mode.
Version 8.0 build 1045, 10/June/2015
- 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.
Version 8.0 build 1044, 29/May/2015
- Added a silent version of force debug logging "-US", where the
debug log filename message boxes are not displayed.
Version 8.0 build 1043, 22/May/2015
- 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.
- Updates to help.
Version 8.0 build 1042, 29/April/2015
- Minor change to the Random data with random seeking
physical disk test and additional debug logging.
Version 8.0 build 1041, 27/April/2015
- 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.
Version 8.0 build 1040, 27/March/2015
- 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.
Version 8.0 build 1039, 18/March/2015
- New 2D EMC reference test pattern test.
- Reduced the time to collect memory SPD information in
some scenario's.
- New system information for some newer CPUs.
- Some CPU information collection is now skipped on Linux
VM's.
- Licence agreement updated.
- Minor updates to help.
Version 8.0 build 1038, 18/February/2015
- 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.
Version 8.0 build 1037, 9/February/2015
- Correction to a verify error in the disk High/Low test mode
when run on a physical disk.
Version 8.0 build 1036, 6/February/2015
- 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.
Version 8.0 build 1035, 2/February/2015
- Added debug information for 3rd party temperature
monitoring.
Version 8.0 build 1034, 30/January/2015
- 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.
Version 8.0 build 1033, 28/January/2015
- Added debug information for 3rd party temperature
monitoring.
Version 8.0 build 1032, 7/January/2015
- Changes to the collection of Memory SPD information (for
Intel801 SMBus) and additional debug information.
Version 8.0 build 1031, 7/January/2015
- A CPU test bug that could cause false CPU errors on
32-bit BurnInTest has been corrected. This problem was introduced
in 32-bit BurnInTest 8.0.1026 and was caused by a change in the compiler we use. In the BurnInTest log the user might see false errors like, "FPU operation verification failed"
- Changes to the collection of Memory SPD information (for
Intel801 SMBus).
- System information added for new Intel Broadwell-U CPUs.
Version 8.0 build 1030, 2/January/2015
- Changed the date format in the reports to be consistent
with the format of other dates. This removes the USA specific
formatting MM/DD/YYYY.
- Memory SPD system information updates.
Version 8.0 build 1029, 19/December/2014
- A possible crash bug on start-up has been corrected for
the collection of DDR4 memory information.
Version 8.0 build 1028, 12/December/2014
- It was possible that the disk test using the physical
disk test mode could report a false error. This has been
corrected.
- A possible crash when collecting system SMART
information on start-up has been corrected.
- Minor improvements to system information collection.
Version 8.0 build 1027, 10/December/2014
- On receiving GPGPU device errors, BurnInTest will now
pause the GPGPU test for a minute.
- BurnInTest 8.0.1026 did not work on Windows XP. This has
been corrected.
Version 8.0 build 1026, 8/December/2014
- Scripting for SETTEST GPGPU and UNSETTEST GPGPU corrected.
- The no operation checks have been extended to check for
no operations per 3D test thread (when running more than one 3D
test and only some of the tests are not working).
- Added support for XMP2.0 SPD memory information.
- Added custom names for AMD A10/A8/A6 integrated cards
(eg AMD Radeon R7 A10-7850k).
- On receiving a GPGPU verification error, BurnInTest will
now pause the test for a short duration.
- Additional GPGPU detailed logging.
- Minor corrections.
- Updates to help to improve performance on high DPI
displays.
Version 8.0 build 1025, 17/November/2014
- The disk test, random seeking test mode, has been
changed to resolve verification errors where the value 66 is
incorrectly read.
- 32-bit BurnInTest could crash on starting the disk test
with a large number of disks under test, the random seeking test
mode selected and 64MB test blocks specified. This has been
corrected.
Version 8.0 build 1024, 14/November/2014
- Correction for collecting memory SPD information on some
Intel ICH SMBUS based systems.
- Correction for temperature display when using 3rd party
tools: SpeedFan and Hmonitor.
- Updates to help.
Version 8.0 build 1023, 12/November/2014
- Correction to the 2D video memory test on High DPI
monitors, where no operations would be reported. Note: It is
normal for the 2D test display to be smaller on high DPI monitors.
- Minor correction to start-up of the GPGPU test. Added new
debug logging.
- System information added for newer Broadwell CPUs.
- Corrected pop-up menus broken in V8.0.1013.
- Status bar could display "USB not detected", this has
been corrected.
Version 8.0 build 1022, 10/November/2014
- Corrected a bug where BurnInTest could crash on closing
the disk test.
- The MachineID for the BurnInTest Management Console can
now be specified as a command line parameter, -MGT <MachineID>,
where <MachineID> can be text or an environment variable that will
be expanded.
- If the MachineID is changed in Configuration->Report
information, and BurnInTest is connected to a management console,
then BurnInTest will now reconnect with this new MachineID.
- BurnInTest Plugin paths can now be specified with (or
without) quotes.
- Corrected the number of L1 and L2 CPU caches on Bay
Trail CPU's.
- System information improvements for AMD video cards.
- System information improvements for Memory SPD
collection (for IMC1 SMBus not available for Haswell chipsets).
- Updates to help.
Version 8.0 build 1021, 24/October/2014
- Corrected a bug in BurnInTest where the disk test could
cause 32-bit BurnInTest to crash after a long period of testing.
- The number of CPU caches reported has been corrected for
Haswell-E.
Version 8.0 build 1020, 22/October/2014
- The disk test is now paused if BurnInTest is running out
of Virtual memory. Increased debug logging for the disk test.
Version 8.0 build 1019, 22/October/2014
- Additional Intel Silvermont CPU (ATOM) information added.
- The option to lock the tests to a single CPU has been
corrected.
- Improvement to the wrong license key version message.
Version 8.0 build 1018, 15/October/2014
- Additional Intel Silvermont CPU (ATOM) information added.
- Single 32-bit and 64-bit installation package changes.
- New debug logging for the sound loopback test.
Version 8.0 build 1017, 13/October/2014
- Intel Silvermont CPU (ATOM) frequency
measurement information added.
- Single 32-bit and 64-bit installation package.
Version 8.0 build 1016, 10/October/2014
- Corrected a memory test compatibility issue with Windows
XP where "Unknown error" could be reported.
- Corrected a possible crash bug when stopping the Sound
loopback test.
- Intel Silvermont CPU (ATOM) frequency measurement
improved.
- System information for future Intel Atom Processor Based
on Silvermont Microarchitecture added.
- Added default name for AMD A10/A8/A6 integrated cards
(AMD Radeon R7).
- Added support for AMD Radeon HD
8xxxD/7xxxD/6xxxD/8400/8330/6320 cards.
- Changes for multiple nVIDIA card detection.
- Changed references from ASCII log files to text log
files.
Version 8.0 build 1015, 3/October/2014
- Reporting of Windows 10 has been added. Initial testing with
Windows 10 Technical preview completed.
- Corrected a possible crash bug in the sound loopback
test.
- Correction to the Advanced Network test to allow more
than one Endpoint IP to be used in a test.
- Improved the handling of USB 3.0 testing when the system
goes into/out of sleep states.
- CPU icon display position corrected on high DPI
monitors.
Version 8.0 build 1014, 29/September/2014
- Replaced the "Save window as image" GIF and EMF options
with PNG.
- Tested on Windows 8.1 To Go. Additional logging added
for this case. Automatic disk selection changed to not test the
WTG USB drive, C: drive. Documentation updated to cover WTG and
its default SAN policy to set local disks offline and how to test
these disks with BurnInTest..
Version 8.0 build 1013, 22/September/2014
- Corrected a crash bug on start up on a system with
invalid DDR3 SPD data.
- Improvements to Mouse wheel scrolling to remove flicker
on updates and temperature graph scrolling.
- Improvements to the display on high DPI monitors and
printing results.
Version 8.0 build 1012, 19/September/2014
- Improvements to the display on high DPI monitors.
Version 8.0 build 1011, 19/September/2014
- Corrected a crash bug.
- Improvements to the display on high DPI monitors.
Version 8.0 build 1010, 17/September/2014
- BurnInTest can now run without DirectX being installed
on the system (e.g. on WinPE 3.0) - as per BurnInTest 7.0.
- Corrected a crash bug.
- High resolution CPU images for high DPI monitors.
- When run under WinPE, the disk test could cause
BurnInTest to run out of virtual memory after a long period of
testing. The disk test would stop and BurnInTest could crash. This
has been corrected.
Version 8.0 build 1009, 12/September/2014
- Improved support for high DPI monitors.
- Improved support for DDR4 memory system information.
- Support for the Intel Haswell-E CPU system information.
- Memory system information (SPD) improvements for Ivy
Bridge-EX/Haswell-EX.
- Corrected a crash bug on collecting SMBIOS system
information on a particular system.
- Disk drive temperature support changed to no longer use
vendor specific temperature SMART parameters.
- The 2D lines and bitmaps test will now pause after an
error.
- Reduced the amount of some less important level 2
activity trace logging.
- Updated help for the above changes and additional
information about 3D errors.
Version 8.0 build 1008, 29/August/2014
- CPU system information updates (including AMD Beema,
Mullin, Intel BAY trail).
- When run under WinPE, the disk test could cause
BurnInTest to run out of virtual memory after a long period of
testing. The disk test would stop and BurnInTest could crash. This
has been corrected.
Version 8.0 build 1007, 22/August/2014
- Added debug logging for the 3D test to now log
WM_DISPLAYCHANGE, WM POWER and WM_POWERBROADCAST messages when
activity trace level 2 logging is specified.
Version 8.0 build 1006, 20/August/2014
- Some additional system information added for Intel
Broadwell CPUs and the next generation of Intel Xeon Processor
Family based on Haswell.
- Corrected a bug where a scripted test that turns on
Automatic temperature monitoring, may not turn on temperature
monitoring.
- Added a new option for the disk test (command line
parameter "-ADR") to also automatically select removable disk
volumes (and not just automatically select fixed disk volumes).
- Added a new command line parameter -HX, that will set
the screen resolution to 1024x768x32 and exit immediately.
- The "Activity event" has been renamed to "Summary
results written to log file" to be more meaningful.
- The memory test now leaves a little more memory headroom
if the disk test is running.
- Minor changes to help.
Version 8.0 build 1005, 11/August/2014
- Corrected a possible crash on exiting BurnInTest if the
GPGPU test had been run.
- Corrected a possible crash with level 2 trace file
logging of the event logs, where the Windows system or application event log is very
large.
- A possible scenario where Intel CPU temperatures were
sometimes not collected has been corrected.
- Minor debug logging changes.
Version 8.0 build 1004, 6/August/2014
- A new Pre-test option has been added, Detect hardware
and turn off tests. When selected BurnInTest will detect current
hardware and if the hardware is not found on the system then the
test is turned off (see help).
- A new option to automatically select all physical disks
under WinPE has been added, "-PHYSDISK". Note: this test will
destroy all data on all of the disks.
- Temperature monitoring is now turned on by default.
- Corrected a memory leak that occurred when the System
information Window was updated (resized or scrolled).
- If the system has run out of memory, and the disk test
is unable to create a test data buffer, the disk test is now
stopped.
- Fixed a bug where (1) BurnInTest did not exit properly
when the Disk self test was run and (2) the GPGPU test did not
work when run with the disk self test.
- Fixed a bug where BurnInTest could crash on creating a
2nd Customer Certificate log file.
- Fixed a bug where BurnInTest could crash on the GPGPU
test encountering an error such as out of memory.
- Fixed a bug where BurnInTest could crash on start-up
when collecting memory SPD data.
- Fixed a bug where BurnInTest could crash on exiting.
- Fixed a bug where if there were no optical drives on the
system, then an error was displayed in Preferences when Auto select optical
drives was selected.
- When a larger number of tests are run, the memory test
will now leave a little more memory headroom.
- An error is now displayed on starting a non-scripted
test if the Plugin test is selected but no Plugin files are
specified.
- Added a check for AMD powerexpress when searching for
video cards to try and correctly detect AMD
graphics cards in laptops with a dual setup with an Intel
onboard card.
- Added System information for AMD R5 M230, R5 M255, R7
M260, R7 M265, R9 M275X, R9 M265X, R9 M270X and R9 M290.
- The "Check updates" option in the PC Test kit build now
includes information specific to updating the PC Test Kit.
- Minor debug logging changes.
- Minor changes to help.
Version 8.0 build 1003, 18/July/2014
- When BurnInTest is run in preferences editor mode, all
relevant test modes are now shown for physical disks.
- Added DVD burn error message text (not just the error
code).
- Changes to only flush duplicate events if configured to
summarize duplicates.
- Increased 3D test debug logging.
- Correction for reported BurnInTest crash on exit.
- Additional debugging for the Video Playback test.
- Minor updates to help.
Version 8.0 build 1001, 4/July/2014
- It was possible that the Webcam test could fail on the
first test, this has been corrected.
- Corrected the Disk serial number in reports (was shown
as NA).
- It was possible that Intel GPU temperature sources were
incorrectly reported, although they are not supported. Intel GPU
temperatures are now not reported.
- If the Temperature preferences are not changed and
"Cancel" is selected, the current temperature sensor data is now
retained (not reset).
- AMD Radeon R9 295X2 and R7 260 video cards have been
added to System Information.
- System Information Memory SPD improvements:
- Added support for Haswell-E SMBus (for DDR4)
- Added support for nForce MCP79 secondary SMBus
- Added DDR4 SPD decoding
- Fixed SPD decoding of manufacture information
- Added DDR3 module type specific decoding
- The price for BurnInTest Standard has been corrected.
- Improvements to help.
Version 8.0 build 1000, 23/June/2014
NEW TESTS & IMPROVEMENTS TO EXISTING TESTS
New GPGPU test
- The GPGPU test exercises and verifies the GPU's General Purpose
computing operations (rather than 3D type operations). The GPGPU tests
are a bit like the CPU tests, but the tests are run on the GPU. The
GPGPU test load is user selectable.
- The GPGPU test runs on all detected GPUs (to a maximum of 8
GPUs). The GPUs that are being tested are listed in the GPGPU test
window.
New Webcam test
- Added an integrated Webcam test to BurnInTest Pro. This test
allows a Webcam display window to be opened as a pre-test. BurnInTest
will report errors opening the Webcam window and the user can also
report a visual display error (via a button).
New battery test
- Added an integrated Battery test to BurnInTest Pro. This test
checks the battery levels in absolute or percentage terms. These
checks can be carried out before the main tests, and/or during the
main tests.
New Microphone test
- Added an integrated Microphone test to BurnInTest Pro. This test
allows a microphone test window to be opened as a pre-test. The test
allows 20 seconds of audio to be recorded via the microphone which can
then be played back to verify the Microphone input is OK. BurnInTest
will report errors opening the Microphone input and the user can also
report an audio error (via a button).
Improved the CPU test
- Added a new CPU test for AES.
Improved the Memory test
- BurnInTest can now monitor and report low level hardware
errors, like corrected ECC memory errors, CPU and PCI-E errors, based
on the Microsoft Windows Hardware Error Architecture (WHEA).
Improved the Disk test
- Increased the default Disk test duty cycle from 50% to 100%.
- Added larger disk test block size options from 2MB to 64MB.
In many cases this allows faster testing.
- Increased the Blocksize default from 0.25MB to 4MB.
- Optimized the Sequential, HighLow and Random test patterns
to reduce the time required to test a disk and to increase load.
- Added a user defined test pattern (eg: 55AA or F0F0) where
one user defined test pattern can be specified.
- Added a Physical disk read test, that tests that all sectors
on the physical disk can be read. This can be useful for a number of
reasons including testing that a disk is the size that it reports it
is (we have seen disks and UFDs that have this issue).
- The mechanism to calculate the disk test throughput (MB/sec)
and to trigger the Slow Disk Threshold has been improved.
- Corrected a Disk test crash bug with the High/Low test mode.
- Changed the description of Automatically selecting disk drives to
better reflect that SSDs are also selected with this option (not just
hard disks).
Improved the Standard Network test
- Increased the number of Network ports that can be tested
from 12 to 20.
- Improvement to the verification of the IPv6 Standard network
test packets.
- When an error ratio is specified with the standard network
test, the number of packets required before the ratio is considered to
be meaningful has been increased.
- Preferences->Network now warns that at least 1 destination
address must be specified.
Improved the Bluetooth test
- Bluetooth updated to work with more recent devices.
- Improved the error message when a connection to the device
fails.
Improved the Advanced Network test
- Added an automatic detection and testing of Network Adapters
option in the Advanced Network test. This allows easier testing across
systems with different network card configurations.
- Optimized the Advanced network test to provide a greater
load with lower CPU utilization (i.e. test higher network loads).
Also, increased the default Advanced Network Block size from 1000 to
16384 to increase the default Network load.
- Better support for systems with VMWare or VirtualBox
installed.
Improved the Sound loopback test
- The Sound loopback test has been changed from mono to
stereo. BurnInTest now plays a stereo waveform and records and
analyses each channel. The left and right channel waveforms are
displayed in the test window and errors are reported for either the
left or right channel.
- Very short tests are now possible (e.g. to verify correct
cabling) down to about 4 seconds.
- Sound preferences now displays the waveform capable input
and output devices on the system, to make it easy to determine which
is the default device (0), and what will be used for the test.
- The output device is now selectable using BurnInTest
scripting.
Improved the 3D test
- Higher load through higher resolution textures and 3D objects.
Improved the test for Intel integrated graphics cards.
Improved the USB test
- The USB 3.0 Loopback test has been changed to use a larger
burst length to increase the USB system loading.
- Improvements to detecting PassMark USB 3.0 Loopback plugs in
some scenarios.
Improved the Video Playback test
- Additional error information now reported for the Video
Playback test.
- Corrected a Video playback test crash bug that could occur
in rare scenarios at the end of a video clip.
SYSTEM INFORMATION IMPROVEMENTS
- Separate Operating System descriptions for Windows 8 and
Windows 8.1.
CPU changes
- Updated CPU system information for newer CPUs.
- Updated CPU features: AVX, AVX2, XOP, FMA3, FMA4
- Non-turbo CPU speeds now measured and reported for Ivy
Bridge (and later) Xeons.
- Summarized some CPU features to fit them all on the CPU test
window.
- Minor CPU temperature reporting changes for AMD Family 15h,
Models 0h-0Fh and 30h-3Fh (e.g. A10-7850K).
- Added temperature monitoring of Intel Atom NXXXX CPUs (e.g.
N2800).
- If AMD CPU temperatures are unable to be retrieved,
BurnInTest no longer reports these temperatures as 0.
- AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 6xx socket type corrected.
GPU changes
- System information added for 8970M/7730M/4810 video cards.
- System information added for AMD R9/R7 and 8700M/8800M video
cards.
Disk changes
- Added disk volume GUID information
- The maximum number of SMART devices for System Information
reporting has been increased from 32 to 64.
Memory SPD changes
- BurnInTest now reports memory modules greater than 32GB.
- Increased the number of reported memory modules from 16 to
32.
- Improved memory device information (added support for DDR3
SPD revision 1.2 and 1.3).
- Improvements to system memory information (for some systems
with Intel LPC's, Ivy Bridge-E IMC SMBus, AMD/ATI/nVidia SMBus and
Intel Haswell-E/Wellsburg chipsets).
- Improvements to memory capacity information.
- Multiple SMBus controllers are now supported, for RAM
connected to separate CPUs.
- Improvements to Sandy Bridge-E chipset memory module
reporting.
- Intel ValleyView chipset, Intel 5 Series chipsets and SiS96x
chipset support added.
- Improved collection of memory (SPD) information: Added
support for retrieving info for all RAM modules on Supermicro server
boards. Added support for the VT8237S chipset. Added support for
enabling SMBus on the Intel X79 Express Chipset. Fixed incorrect
decoding of number of banks in DDR2FB SPD that caused the memory stick
size to be reported incorrectly.
- If BurnInTest failed to collect Memory SPD information from
some systems, it was possible that BurnInTest would try forever. This
would not allow the user to enter preferences. This has been
corrected.
Other changes
- Added reporting on Battery information to BurnInTest Pro
(without the need of BatteryMon).
- Fixed a crash bug on start-up when collecting system
information on a system with a very large number of disks.
- Rare crash on collecting Disk SMART information fixed.
REPORTING IMPROVEMENTS
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The test configuration details can now be saved to a text report
(File->Save Test Configuration Text As...) or to an Activity level 1
trace log file. This can help record the test configuration of a test
run or be used to check the test configuration.
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A statistics report has been added to log test monitoring data
in a CSV (Comma Separated Variable) format for post test analysis.
Currently this includes data logging for temperature, fans* and
voltage*. *3rd party HMonitor or SpeedFan software is required to
monitor fans and voltage.
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Temperature reporting and graphing now supported down to -50C
(previously above 0C) where supported by the temperature source.
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Added fields to the Customer Test Certificate: System model,
Motherboard manufacturer and Motherboard serial number.
OTHER IMPROVEMENTS
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Pre-tests may now be run directly or scripted to run with or
without a main body of tests.
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On double clicking a result on the Results window, if there is
no error then the test description in help is displayed instead of the
error description.
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A background watermark on the System Information page is
displayed so that at a glance it is obvious whether BurnInTest V7.x or
V8.x is running.
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Minor temperature logging change.
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Corrected a possible crash bug when printing results as a post
test action.
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Corrected a bug where if all "RUN" script commands failed (e.g.
due to a script syntax error) then no PASS/FAIL window will be
displayed.
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It is now possible to skip the collection of specific system
information on start-up, including CPU turbo mode, SMBIOS and SPD
data. This is an extension to the existing "-W" command line
parameter.
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Tested and documented network PXE booting a Windows image with
BurnInTest 8.0.
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When running BurnInTest on WinPE, BurnInTest will no longer
attempt to create a debug file (minidump) on encountering a crash.
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BurnInTest no longer converts old configuration files made with
BurnInTest 6.0.1012 or earlier.
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Corrected a crash bug when starting the 3D test on a system with
more than 10 monitors.
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Help updated for V8.0 and other minor improvements.