PassMark (R) BurnInTest (TM) Windows V10

Copyright (C) 1999-2022 PassMark Software

All Rights Reserved
http://www.passmark.com

Overview
========
Passmark's BurnInTest is a software tool that allows all
the major sub-systems of a computer to be simultaneously
tested for reliability and stability.
<For more details see the online help>

Installation
============
1) Uninstall any previous version of BurnInTest
2) Double click (or Open) the downloaded ".exe" file
3) Follow the prompts

UnInstallation
==============
Use the Windows control panel, Add / Remove Programs

Requirements
============
- Operating System: Windows 7, 8, 10, 11
2008 Server, 2008 R2 Server, 2012 Server, 2012 R2 Server, 2016 Server,
2019 Server
- CPU: CPU support (e.g. SSE2) is required in order to run the CPU tests for
those specific instructions (e.g. SSE2).
- GPU: DirectX 9.0c or above software for 3D graphics, video and webcam tests
(plus working DirectX drivers for your video card). DirectX 11 support
required for the GPGPU tests with DirectCompute compatible GPU.
- RAM: 256MB
- Disk space: 225MB of free hard disk space (plus free space for the Disk test).
- A printer to run the printer test, set-up as the default printer in Windows.
- A CD ROM + 1 Music CD or Data CD to run the CD test.
- A CD-RW to run the CD burn test.
- A DVD-RW or DVD+RW to run the DVD burn test.
- A network connection and the TCP/IP networking software installed for the
Network Tests
- A serial port loop back plug for the serial port test.
- A parallel port loop back plug for the parallel port test.
- A USB 2.0 port loop back plug for the USB 2.0 port test.
- A USB 3.0 port loop back plug for the USB 3.0 port test.
- A webcam is required for the webcam test.
- A battery is required for the battery test.
- A microphone is required for the microphone test.
- A PassMark PCIe 2.0 loopback card for the PCIe test.

(*)Operating System compatibility notes:

- BurnInTest must be run with administrator privileges. It requires
elevated administrator privileges in Windows Vista (and later).
- The Standard and Torture RAM tests are available on all operating systems.
The Address Windowing Extensions test mode is only available under operating
systems where you can lock memory pages into memory
- The CD and DVD burn tests require Windows Vista (and later).
- The Bluetooth test is available on Windows Vista and later.
- The GPGPU test requires Windows 7 or later.
- To monitor and report WHEA errors (like corrected ECC memory errors), Windows
7/ Windows 2008 R2 or later is required. Also the system must support WHEA
logging of hardware events in the CPER (Common Platform Error Reports) format.

Version History
===============
Here is a summary of all changes that have been made in each version of
BurnInTest.

Release 10.2 build 1004 - 17 November 2022

- Fixed Directio driver failing to load on some systems (caused by 22H2 updates)
which would prevent temperatures from being collected and could display Windows
"Program Compatibility" driver cannot load errors
- Report information, 'MachineType' and 'SerialNumber' now sent to Management
Console
- Updated system information library to support retrieving CPU info for Intel
Raptor Lake, Tremont and Sapphire Rapids chipsets
- Fixed retrieving cache info for Intel hybrid architectures

Release 10.2 build 1003 - 21 September 2022

- Removed dependency on VCRUNTIME140.DLL

- Management console, made a change where if user is autorunning and has management
console enabled, delay autorun until BIT is connected to the console
- Management console, updated management console cloud link

Release 10.2 build 1002 - 12 September 2022

- Updated Directio64.sys with another newly Microsoft signed version to fix issues
with Windows 11 22H2
- Disk test, fixed missing pattern name when a disk error was logged
- Network test, excluded received and outbound errors (low level) from the overall
error total
- Fixed a case where -P command line parameter wasn't being prioritised and could
still look for files in default locations
- Management console, changed behaviour to not close preferences window if API key
incorrect
- Management console, changed connection error to mention checking internet
connection is active
- Management console, added a link in preferences window to get a API key
- Management console, increased number of system information lines sent to a max of
50
- Management console, added icon/button to dashboard to display connection status
and clicking on it will display preferences > Management tab
- Logging, stopped logging temperature sensors that weren't selected (instead of
logging them as N/A)
- Logging, added which temperature sensors are selected for trace log output
- Logging, added monitor information to customer certificate
- Logging, fixed Physical Disk Read Test on the HTML Report not reporting Avg Read
Speed MB/s.

Release 10.2 build 1001 - 7 July 2022

- Fixed a "GPGPU unable to access graphics resource" occurring in the GPGPU test
once a cycle

Release 10.2 build 1000 - 5 July 2022

- Added support for API keys to connect to a cloud version of Management Console
- Scripting, updated SET2DGRAPHICS command to allow setting of per monitor test
options
- 2D RAM & GPGPU test, made some changes so that the number of tests started is the
lower count of available GPUs between BurnInTest's system information collection
and the windows API call EnumAdapters. This should stop some issues seen with
docking stations that do not respond correctly to EnumAdapters causing the GPU
count to be too high, so more tests than needed are run and errors are seen.
- GPGPU test, added improved recovery attempt when an error occurs during the GPGPU
tests
- 2D Video memory test, reduced amount of memory being allocated for testing when
running the 3D test at the same time
- 3D DX12 test, added new error message if resource files failed to load (but do
exist on disk), eg in a low resource situation
- Fixed a case where when running from USB the LastUsedSettings.cfg was not loaded
from the USB drive correctly and could instead use a locally installed copy or
default values
- When not running tests, status messages sent to management console is reduced to
once per minute, will increase when tests are being run
- Updated preferences to allow for adjusting how often status messages are sent to
management console while tests are running
- Advanced network test, fixed tile numbering (x of x) while test is running and
issue where all 20 result tiles were displayed instead of how many NICs were neing
tested
- Advanced network test, moved the result tile title slightly to the left to match
with progress tile title positioning
- Advanced Network Test, fixed last error description not displaying on tiles
- Advanced Network Test, Fixed display issue where cycles, operations and errors
were not displaying on tiles
- Fixed serial port identification in WinPE for a specific add on card that was
identifying them using hex A/B/C instead of numbers
- Parallel ports, fixed an instance where the parallel test would not start
correctly first time if the test wasn't already selected when BurnIntest was
launched
- Added a workaround for Windows 11 22H2 update that was blocking a driver load and
preventing BurnInTest from gathering as much system information and seeing CPU
temperatures

Release 10.1 build 1004 - 8 March 2022

- Webcam test, can now be run as a pre-test or a main test. When run in main test
mode the close / ok buttons will be disabled
- Preferences, added new tab for webcam options
- Scripting, added new webcam options command (SETWEBCAM)
- Fixed a bug preventing configuration files from being saved correctly
- Fixed an issue with the disk test auto select not selecting >100 disks correctly
- Fixed a crash that could occur when a log file reached its max line count and
created a new file

Release 10.1 build 1003 - 15 February 2022

- Test preferences, logging, added a "Show error details on certificate" option to

allow for any error details to be turned off and just show "FAIL"
- Test preferences, disk, fixed an issue where auto select options were not being
set properly and could leave the disk size as 0%
- Disk test, fixed several issues where >100 disks would not be displayed in the
user interface correctly
- Temperature progress tile, fixed Min/Max temperatures incorrectly displaying the
current temperature.
- Fixed an old to new config conversion issue when the "All available" video memory
test option was selected
- Fixed a possible crash when converting old configs
- Made some changes to fix an issue where BurnInTest fails to connect to the
management console but then continually sends connection messages each status
update

Release 10.1 build 1002 - 13 January 2022

- Added Threads per CPU, P-Core and E-Core count to System Information tab
- Fixed incorrect "Endpoint Version not current" warning message in trace log
- Fixed missing "Threads per CPU" text in Text/HTML CPU system information output

Release 10.1 build 1001 - 7 January 2022

- Fixed a config file conversion issue from V10.0 to 10.1 that could result in some
settings being incorrect

Release 10.1 build 1000 - 3 January 2022

- Added support for 12th gen Intel CPUs that use P (performance) and E (efficiency)
cores, test threads for CPU test will be based on total available threads
- Add support for retrieving temperatures from Intel Ice Lake SP (3rd gen Xeon)
- Added support for retrieving DDR5 information
- Slightly changed RAM test memory allocation calculation to leave more free memory
when running 2D and 3D tests
- Disk test, added support for up to 200 disk tests
- Preferences, fixed an issue when saving a log file without a fully resolved path
(a filename with no path)
- Fixed USB version not loading settings file correctly at startup
- Added a check and specific error message if OpenCL.dll is not found on the system
when trying to run the 2D - Local video memory test
- 2D Preferences, fixed window size drop down not being set correctly on initial
window load
- Video Preferences, fixed Number of windows drop down not being set correctly on
initial window load
- Fixed graphic flashing/redrawing issue on management console settings page caused
by a no longer used icon being drawn

Release 10.0 build 1005 - 11 November 2021

- Fixed a "No operations" error that could occur when running the Keyboard or
Monitor tests
- Fixed a "Invalid key.dat" error that could occur after installing BurnInTest to
USB
- Added an option to enable/disable the save as report auto open feature, saved in
BurnInTest program settings file
- Added -MO command line flag so BurnInTest won't check for a success response when
connecting to the management console, this will allow the connection for old
versions <1.1
- Fixed -LV command line parameter not being case insensitive
- Fixed -LV command line parameter causing the Pre-Configured Tests tab to be blank
- Made some changes so ADR, MGT and W SMBIOS/SPD/CPU command line flags should no
longer be case sensitive
- Made a change to the system information library to try and avoid collecting smart
information from some misbehaving card readers
- Updated KeyboardTest to 4.0.1001
- Logging, customer certificate, fixed incorrect output in the certificate if the
"Include speeds" loggings option was not selected
- Scripting, fixed a bug where if a test was manually stopped and the configuration
was launching an executable at the end of testing it wasn't reporting "manually
stopped" as part of the $RESULT command line argument to the external executable

Release 10.0 build 1004 - 19 October 2021

- Fixed an issue when running using a key.dat file to register BurnInTest,

BurnInTest thought it was running in USB mode when it detected a key.dat and some
of the file paths used (eg for pre-configured configs) could be incorrect. There is
a now an additional check for running in USB mode.
- Changed test selection and duty cycle dialog to show config time and cycles (if
less than 15mins) when running in the trial version
- Added max run times (instead of 0 - run forever) to some of the pre-configured
tests that were missing them so they work in the trial version
- Management Console, started tracking if connection was successful to prevent
extra status messages being sent when connection failed for some reason
- Updated system information library to correct some incorrect CPU cache values
being returned

Release 10.0 build 1003 - 7 October 2021

- Updated MonitorTest to run as a registered "BurnInTest Plugin" user, will no

longer launch in trial mode
- Updated KeyboardTest to run as a registered "BurnInTest Plugin" user, will no
longer launch in trial mode
- Changed MonitorTest plugin test to display master screen before the touch screen
tests
- After saving a result log from file menu it will now automatically open in the
default viewer
- Fixed Monitor/Keyboard tests missing from results list view and Text/HTML reports
- Fixed battery window not displaying a main title, icon or runtime errors
correctly when there were no batteries available
- Added webcam, battery, USB devices, RAM information to the system information
section of the HTML test certificate
- Changed how optional Disk/USB speeds are reported in the HTML log & certificate,
added them as part of the test name instead of in the result summary section
- Increased table sizes in HTML style logs to 800 wide
- USB test, made some changes so cycle lengths are more consistent when cycling
USB3 test speeds

Release 10.0 build 1002 - 21 September 2021

- Fixed test stop time being reset to 17 minutes in some cases

- 2D GPU RAM test, changed compile settings to avoid a VCTUNTIME140.DLL error
- Previous version config conversions, fixed an issue when converting config files
from V8 to V9, bluetooth settings were not being copied correctly
- Previous version config conversions, attempt to convert old 2D lines and bitmaps
settings for the 2D test. Other settings (EMC patterns) need to be re-chosen due to
the extent of changes to the new per monitor 2D test
- Report Information, fixed "Include test duty cycles" state not being saved and
restored correctly when using "Save as defaults"

Release 10.0 build 1001 - 15 September 2021

- Battery Test, fixed battery pre test not checking battery details correctly and
throwing an error
- USB Test, fixed a bug where the first USB3 test thread could stop the
configuration of other USB3 plugs
- Fixed a localisation bug on progress tiles ("Low level errors" instead of
"Runtime errors")

Release 10.0 build 1000 - 10 September 2021

New Inventory Comparison Test

- Compares the current system information to a master list and an error is logged
if there any difference.
- Comparison can be done at start or end of testing
- The master list is stored as an XML file and can be created from the Inventory
tab of the test preferences

New Shared Memory API

- Added a shared memory block for API style access to BurnInTest information, test
status and temperatures
- The definitions for the shared memory structure and a demo are included in the
installer

New 2D GPU RAM test

- Replaces the Local/All available video memory test. It uses OpenCL and will
allocate a large amount of the available video RAM and test it similar to the
system RAM test.
The old test used the deprecated DirectDraw library which could not access
greater than 4GB of video memory.

New Pref-Configured Tests Tab

- Added new tab to main user interface so configs can be loaded and run directly
from this list. This will display config files that are saved in Documents\
PassMark\BurnInTest\Configs.
- Configs can now have a description and icon assigned to them which will be
displayed on this tab
- Config order can be sorted by editing the cfg_order.txt file in Documents\
PassMark\BurnInTest\Configs

New Battery Tab

- Added a new tab to the main user interface to display a graph of the battery
charge levels during testing
- Added discharge comparison rate selection
- When "main test" option is selected for battery test charge levels will be
logged during testing in addition to previous behaviour of comparing charge level

New KeyboardTest Integration

- Better integration of KeyboardTest, no longer have to specify a path command
line flags to launch as a plugin
- Now has an individual option to enable/disable KeyboardTest in test selections
and duty cycle dialog and on dashboard tab
- KeyboardTest files are now included in the BurnInTest installer

New MonitorTest Integration

- Better integration of MonitorTest no longer have to specify a path command line
flags to launch as a plugin
- Now has an individual option to enable/disable MonitorTest in test selections
and duty cycle dialog and on dashboard tab
- MonitorTest files are now included in the BurnInTest installer

New Localisation Options

 - Added Korean and Chinese translations
- Language selection is via the new settings dialog under the "Edit" main menu
item

New Settings dialog

- Added options for language selection and default tab at startup

Dashboard
- Added a dashboard tile for temperature with sensor names and current, min max
temps
- Removed duty cycle slider from test tiles that don't have a duty cycle
- Added a "Runtime Error" count to each progress tile for quick referencing of
test status
- Added left and right icons for scrolling through available test information
- Changed maximise/minimise icon

2D Test
- Increased number of monitors supported from 4 to 8
- Changed 2D monitor tests (scrolling H, reference and colour bar patterns) to be
selected on a per monitor basis and added better support monitors in different
configurations
- 2D Test preferences, available monitors will be listed in the list box and a
different test pattern can be selected for each one. Note that this order is not
the same order as displayed by Windows by using "identify monitors" and the order
can change if monitors are added, removed or powered off/on.

CPU Test
- Progress tile, only display decimal place when value is less than 100

Disk Test
- Added average read/write speeds to display
- Disk wiping, added option to disk test preferences to format physical drive at
end of test (only when running a physical disk test)
- At the end of testing a disk wipe dialog will be displayed with a 20 second
countdown to allow it to be cancelled

GPGPU Test
- Added a preference tab and option to avoid running the test on cards based on a
name filter

USB Test
- Progress tile, changed some text offsets so the error count was displayed on the
tile
- Added "Cycle" option to speed selection to cycle between speeds (from Super
Speed -> High Speed -> Full Speed)

Logging
- Added average disk read/write speeds to logging
- Added USB benchmark read, write and loopback speed to logging
- Added option to remove system information from log

Management console
- Added session & result IDs to log and status message on successful connection
(will require an update of management console)
- Added checks for errors on status/result message updates from management console

Scripting
- Started to remember last used script name and script path after opening a script
next time "Run script" is selected
 - Added scripting options for inventory, GPGPU, monitor, keyboard tests and other
new config options

Tape test
- Removed tape drive test, no longer supported

Test Preferences
- New Config section, added options for setting a description and icon for the
config (displayed on the Pre-Configured Tests tab)
- Battery, made some changes to battery settings to make it clearer and updated
help with more information
- Logging, added options to save an image of the dashboard (will full screen and
select the dashboard tab) at the end of the test
- Logging, added option to enable or disable logging of USB and disk speeds
- Logging, added option to remove system information from log
- Serial, removed 110 baud option. If a baud rate below 1200 is selected then the
timeout value will be automatically increased to 10 seconds.
- Post test options, made some changes to "Always display result info" so that it
will change the current displayed tab to the results dashboard. If being used in
conjunction with "launch an external application and exit" then a message box will
be displayed to allow the results dashboard to be seen (this brings it back into
how it functions prior to V9 when there was an actual results window displayed at
the end of testing).

Test Selection and Duty Cycles

- Added button and icons to test selection and duty cycle window to allow opening
of test preferences at specific test page
- Added list of pre-configured tests on left side of dialog
- Added config description and icon to dialog
- Added temperature checkbox for consistency aid enabling/disabling the test

Misc
- DDR5 support when retrieving system information
- Support for Intel Elkhart Lake when retrieving system information
- Added a way of customising the background image for the main BurnInTest user
interface
- Added a "Don't show again" option to pre test warning, this will toggle the
"Action before running tests" option for the current config to "None" if checked.
- Removed some dynamic loading of functions from kernel32.dll that have been
around since XP SP2/Win7, now directly calling those functions (eg
GetDiskFreeSpaceEx)
- Replaced Quick Test Menu items with Pre-Configured Tests
- Added CPU/GPU/HDD to sensor names on temperature tab
- Hid Remove/Configure columns in results list view when test was running /
displaying results
- Fixed some errors not being displayed by category

Release 9.2 build 1002 - 22 January 2021

- Advanced network test, endpoint, fixed some possible crashes when memory failed
to allocate
- Advanced network test, fixed a bug where a "connection reset by peer error"
could occur when trying to test 4 or more network cards
- Added NOTEMP command line flag to disable temperature collection
- Fixed an inconsistency between BurnInTest and the DirectIo driver that was
causing the parallel port test to fail
- Decreased a timeout value when collecting SMART disk information that could cause
the temperature initialising and collection to fail or time out when some USB
drives were attached to the system under test.
- Fixed a possible crash when gathering SMART information from hard drives
Release 9.2 build 1001 - 1 December 2020
- Fixed a bug where USB3 low level errors would display an error message for the
DX12 test rather than a information line for USB3 low level errors
- Added a minimum size to the BurnInTest window so all UI elements can be accessed
- Updated system information library with initial support for AMD Ryzen 5000 Series
CPU info and temperatures, support for CPU groups when retrieving per-core
temperatures for Intel chipsets
- Fixed "Display errors by categories" checkbox being hidden on high DPI settings

Release 9.2 build 1000 - 11 November 2020

- Rebranded "BurnInTest Pro" to "BurnInTest Windows"
- "BurninTest Standard" has now been discontinued
- Management console, added an error when there was a server side error or response
other than HTTP status 200 (eg 500)
- Endpoint, fixed a bug where the last digit of an IPV4 address from BurnInTest
could be truncated in some cases resulting in a failure to start the test
- Added currently selected configuration filename to main window

Release 9.1 build 1009 - 22nd October 2020

- Management console, fixed a bug where unprintable characters in some system
information fields (eg BIOS serial) could prevent BurnInTest correctly connecting
to the management console
- Added CPU voltage from SMBIOS to system information
- Added extra information to DX12 error logging
- Updated system information library for support for reading temperatures and SMART
information for NVMe drive behind USB-NVMe bridges (eg JMicron JMS583, Realtek
RTL9210, ASMedia ASM2362)
- Advanced Network Test, Added more setting value bounds checking to advanced
network test preferences
- Advanced Network Test Endpoint, fixed a crash that could occur on exit while
cleaning up
- Advanced Network Test Endpoint, stopped displaying an error message at startup
when Bluetooth was not available
- Advanced Network Test Endpoint, fixed a crash that could occur in the endpoint
- Memory Test, fixed crash that could occur after allocating a small amount of RAM
- When using the -MF command line flag the machineid.dat file will now be saved at
this location when using save as default button

Release 9.1 build 1008 - 22nd June 2020

- Scripting - Added ID flag to SETMANAGEMENT command
- Add missing model when detecting Intel Comet Lake chipsets for CPU information
and temperatures
- Added Intel Ice Lake chipset support for CPU information and temperatures
- Fixed ADM Ryzen temperatures being displayed too low

Release 9.1 build 1007 - 10th June 2020

- RAM test, fixed an instance where the RAM test process might crash if it had
allocated a very small amount of RAM initially (<100MB) and then tried to allocate
more
- Management console, fixed a bug where BurnInTest might not send a test finished
time in test result
- Fixed some display issues on the dashboard for the standard and advanced network
tests
- Disabled time and cycle count editing in dashboard user interface and added
message for trial version (was always set to 15 minutes for trial version but
dashboard UI was not reflecting this)
- Fixed a recent temperature collection change that was causing some AMD CPU temps
to be displayed incorrectly
- Add support for Intel Comet Lake chipsets
- Added Qemu/KVM to list of known Linux VMs so that CPU MSR information is not
processed (to prevent BSOD in VM)
- Replaced Testsound.wav and Testsound.mp3 example files used for sound test with
cleaner sounding examples

Release 9.1 build 1006 - 25th May 2020

- Added -MF command line flag to load machineid.dat file from a specified location
- RAM Test, fixed a bug that would prevent the RAM test from testing < 100 MB of
RAM, on systems with low amounts of available RAM at test start this would show the
cycle count increasing but no operations being performed.
- PCIe Test, fixed a bug that would cause a "no operations" error when running more
than 1 PCIe test at a time and keeping the test view on the list view (instead of
tile view)
- GPGPU Test, Added card number (as seen by BurnInTest) to GPGGPU error and trace
activity output to better help identify GPU when multiple of the same type/name are
in use
- Customer certificate, stopped outputting an empty temperature graph if
temperature monitoring was disabled
- Trace Logging, reduced the amount of memory information logged during the disk
test
- Trace Logging, made the logged memory information more readable

Release 9.1 build 1005 - 17th April 2020

- Advanced network test, made some changes to send multicast instead of broadcast
messages to find endpoints
- Advanced network test, made some changes to send all broadcast and control
messages via IPv6 when testing an IPv6 interface
- Advanced network test, added the outbound and recieved errors to the advanced
network test window
- Advanced network test, Endpoint software, added two new threads to listen and
respond to IPv6 broadcast and control messages
- Added -LV command line flag to have dashboard display the list view rather than
the tile view on startup
- Added max cycle count to disk test scripting options (MAXCYCLES flag)
- Reduced some of the trace logging of memory use when running the disk test
- Updated some temperature readings for new AMD CPUs

Release 9.1 build 1004 - 27th March 2020

- Sound test, Loopback test, fixed a possible crash that could occur if there was
no input device available
- Management console, fixed an issue where a connect message wasn't correctly sent
when a large amount of system information was present (eg 10+ disks etc)
- Fixed a bug where some event source strings were not printed correctly (only a
single character) to the trace log
- Fixed the display of hard disk information only showing minimal information (no
serial etc) in WindowsPE
- Updated system information library with some AMD Ryzen temperature fixes (4600H,
4800H)

Release 9.1 build 1003 - 27th February 2020

- Scripting, fixed an issue where script would continue running next script line
when STOP button was clicked
- Disk test, fixed an instance where disk test files were not being kept on disk
when used in conjunction with the -K command line parameter
- Slightly increased test tile size to allow for extra USB information being
displayed
- Install to USB, now includes machineid.dat if file exists
- USB test, added the "Check bus error" option to the preferences window to allow
user to enable/disable logging of the low level errors. "Low level errors"
information field added to USB test display

Release 9.1 build 1002 - 14th February 2020

- Memory Test, fixed a crash / timeout error that could occur in low memory
situations
- Added some extra logging to trace file with command line string
- Added some extra error information when Print action fails

Release 9.1 build 1001 - 8th January 2020

- Fixed missing digital signatures on some executables (plugins, memtest, DX12
test) which could prevent the executables being launched by BurnInTest or show an
unknown error during the memory test.

Release 9.1 build 1000 - 24th December 2019

- Memory Test, made some changes to how the memory is allocated at the start of
the test and reallocated during the test. Previously memory was allocated in one
large allocation (per memory test process),
however on systems with large amount of RAM (eg 4TB) the test would time out
when test RAM was reallocated. Now the test processes will allocate/deallocate RAM
in 100MB blocks.
- Memory Test, added a small sleep if a memory allocation fails before looping to
try allocate again
- CPU Test, started reserving threads if memory test is running (1 thread for 8 or
less cores*thread systems, 2 threads for > 8)
- Scripting, fixed some issues where the next line of a script might not be
executed when a test was automatically stopped when using the SETERRORS ACTION STOP
command
- 3D Test, fixed a bug where last 3D DX12 error string was not being displayed in
dashboard list view

Release 9.0 build 1018 - 25th November 2019

- Management console, started sending more memory information to management
console on initial connection so RAM details table can be populated from BurnInTest
connections.
- Plugins, fixed an issue where the test run wouldn't automatically stop when
running just plugins (no main tests included) and the plugins had finished
- Plugins, fixed an issue where the next plugin wouldn't start when running
plugins during the main tests (not pre-test plugins) and the option "run each
separately" was selected
- 2D EMC testing, added new option to swap pattern displayed on primary monitor
- 2D EMC testing, added an option to disable the sine wave tone that is played
during the test
- 2D EMC testing, fixed an issue when the primary monitor was not the left most
(#0) monitor that would cause the test to display on the wrong monitor and in
incorrect sizes
- Fixed an issue where DirectIO.sys could be held open if BurnInTest was started a
second time on the same system if temperature monitoring was enabled. This could
then cause system information to not be collected correctly (eg missing memory
details) on the second BurnInTest launch (if system was not restarted between
launches)

Release 9.0 build 1017 - 3rd October 2019

- Disk test, added some extra checks that block size is not invalid when starting
the test
- 3D Test, changed default test size to 800x600
- 3D Test, DX12 test, made some changes so test window can be moved to a different
screen location
- Management console, made some changes so that clearing the Machine ID in the
report information dialog will close the current management console connection and
allow the config (or the default values in machineid.dat) to be saved with a blank
Machine ID. This will then be newly generated next time BurnInTest is opened using
that config and the connection to the management console is made.
- Memory test, made some changes so the test isn't waiting longer than it needs to
when running in conjunction with USB2 plugs or the USB test has errors before
connecting to a plug (the memory test will wait for up to 1 minute before starting
to allow USB plugs to connect and the USB3 benchmark test to run)
- CPU Test, added option to allow number of CPU test threads to be chosen
- Added a warning message when running the 3D DX12 test in conjunction with the
GPGPU and CPU test at high duty cycles
- Logging, added duty cycle for the selected tests to the normal log output
- Fixed a crash on start up that could occur on Intel Baytrail systems due to an
invalid MSR read

Release 9.0 build 1016 - 18th June 2019

- System information library changes, fixed error when sending NVMe command "Get
log page" which was preventing temperature reads of some NVMe hard drives.
- Fixed a bug in the scripting SETSERIALPORTS SPEED command where CYCLE_115K was
setting the speed to CYCLE_256K

Release 9.0 build 1015 - 17th May 2019

- Made a change to the 3D DX12 test to remove a timer watching for completion of
the test, this timer could cause an error to occur if the system was put to sleep
and then resumed. Now the background watchdog timer (that checks the operations
count of a test continues to increase) will be used to detect if there is an issue
running the 3D test.
- Fixed a buffer overflow issue that could cause a crash in the cpu max heat test
- Changed behaviour of memory test when it generates an �unknown error�

Release 9.0 build 1014 - 20th March 2019

- Made a change to the 3D DX12 test to fix a "3D test interrupted" error message
on some systems (mostly with Intel UHD 620/630 cards) where the test was not
closing correctly after it had finished
- Added some more 3D test DX12 specific error messages

Release 9.0 build 1013 - 25th February 2019

- Added some test information to the display of the 3D test progress tile on the
dashboard
- Network test, added extra output to trace level 1 log each cycle (500 packets)
for standard network test (packets sent / recv, bytes sent, max / avg delay, total
bad packets)
- Fixed a bug where a new test could be added using the "Test Selection and & Duty
Cycles" menu item when the test results were being displayed, leading to a new test
tile with no result (which could appear as a blank space on the tile view).
- Added a warning message and option to clear results when attempting to use the
"Test Selection and & Duty Cycles" menu item when in a "Results" test state
- Made a change to detect USB drives better when auto selecting disk test options
- Fixed a crash that could occur in the 32bit build when trying to use the duty
cycle slider for a test on the dashboard tab
- Management console, now when technician or customer is changed in the report
details any current connection to the management console will be restarted so the
changes are sent to the management console
- Fixed a bug in the DirectX12 3D test that could cause a "Test was interrupted"
error message when BurnInTest attempts to resize/move the test window after initial
creation
- Fixed temperature display for Ryzen 2700 PRO
- Fixed a bug in the 3D DX12 test where the duty cycle was not being applied
correctly causing the test to run at full speed
Release 9.0 build 1012 - 18th December 2018
- Added outputting of PCIe statistics to trace activity level 1 log once per cycle
- Fixed a bug where saved report defaults (technician, customer, serial etc) could
be cleared when the current results were cleared
- Made a change to the CPU heat test so that the SSE2 heat test checks for AVX CPU
support as well as some AVX instructions being used (which caused a crash on old
CPUs like the Core 2 Quad 6600)
- Fixed an issue with the TPM test where V2 TPMs might not be found correctly and
throw a "self test failed" error
- Added a new error to the TPM test if the self test command is blocked by the
operating system
- Fixed an issue in the DX12 3D test where if an error occurred during the render
process it previously might not be displayed until the 3D cycle finished. Now an
error will be flagged when the error occurs and the test will stop running.
- Changed behaviour of scrolling letter 2D test so it will continue to run when
not in the foreground
- Added technician and customer details to management console connection message
- Changed editing of report details so when technician or customer is changed any
current connection to the management console will be restarted (starting a new
management console session)
- Increased size limit of system information details fields sent to management
console
- Increased number of system information items sent to the management console from
16 to 25
- Fixed some possible array overflows that could cause a crash when generating the
management console connection message
- Started signing installer with SHA256

Release 9.0 build 1011 - 24th August 2018

- Fixed a crash that could occur when using a config file from version 8
- Updated system information library to work around a crash caused by Windows 10
Enterprise device guard on some AMD systems

Release 9.0 build 1010 - 9th August 2018

- Fixed a bug in the 2D colour bar test that was preventing the main BurnInTest
windows from handling messages (eg when clicking the stop button) which made it
impossible to stop the test.
- Removed the verified operations count for the GPGPU as it was unused, added an
error count to the dashboard tile
- Fixed a bug preventing bitaccess.txt from correctly working with the test
selections, times and cycles on the dashboard display
- Fixed a bug preventing bitaccess.txt working with the TPM test
- Made some changes so invalid filename characters are stripped from the log file
prefix name when using system variables replacements

Release 9.0 build 1009 - 20th July 2018

- Fixed a bug where if a machine ID was specified on the command line using -MGT
and there was no previous one already generated (or machineid.dat file present)
then it was ignored and a new one generated on connection to the management console
- Fixed some uninitialized variables when sending data to the management console
- Started encoding XML invalid characters when sending system information to the
management console
- Made some changes to prevent invalid characters being used in the management
console machine ID

Release 9.0 build 1008 - 3rd July 2018

- Fixed an issue when reading the configuration file that could cause the "Machine
type" and "Serial number" to display invalid characters in system information
Release 9.0 build 1007 - 29th June 2018
- Made some changes to the advanced network test in order to run a bit slower and
allow smaller target speeds on low speed network cards
- Fixed some display issues with the advanced network test dashboard tile view
- Updated system information library to fix some issues when reading Intel SSD
temperatures
- Added some extra TPM error messages
- Fixed an issue with the PHYSDISK command line parameter and the auto select disks
setting when running in WinPE not correctly selecting all the physical disks
- Fixed a bug where if just a pre test was selected (eg the TPM test) then it was
possible for the test run to not stop correctly after the pre test was finished.
- Fixed a minor bug in calculation of the Cycle in the USB3 test
- Changed the packet count per cycle of the USB3 test to 115,000 to bring the cycle
count more into line with the USB2 cycle count

Release 9.0 build 1006 - 31st May 2018

- Changed behaviour so when using a script from the command line the management
console connection is delayed until a config (with the management console enabled)
is loaded or the SETMANAGEMENT script option is used
- Fixed a crash that could occur when turning on the management console option
using a script
- Removed IP information for network cards from test certificate
- Install to USB, added window message updates when copying big files to prevent
"Window not responding"
- Install to USB, added LasUsed.bitcfg file to USB drive during copy process
- Fixed a 32bit overflow when logging the offset location of an error in the
Optical test that could cause negative values to be displayed for large files
- Added an error message when the DX12 test executable is missing / fails to launch
- Fixed the display of the number of USB tests running on the test progress tile
(previously showing an incorrect number of tests running).
- Temperature graphing, added checks and fixes for graphing more than the maximum #
of temperature sources (32)
- Fixed a bug where selecting "No Monitoring" for temperature monitoring in test
preferences could lead to a crash

Release 9.0 build 1005 - 10th May 2018

- Added logging of DX12 error string when available
- Changed time/duty cycle entry on dashboard so values are saved when losing focus,
not just on enter keypress
- Changed default network test settings to be error ratio of 0.1% instead of each
single missing packet
- Made the test preferences dialog a bit smaller
- Added AVX/AVX2/FMA3/FMA4 settings to SETCPU script command
- Fixed a bug in the CPU test where if just the AVX/AVX2/FMA3/FMA4 instructions
were selected then the test would not perform any operations
- Fixed a bug in the endpoint.exe (advanced network test) not updating the current
ethernet statistics while a test was running
- Fixed incorrect logging test name for TPM
- Fixed a bug when removing advanced network test from tileview, would still be
present in list view on dashboard
- Fixed a bug when trying to remove the advanced network test using the remove link
in list view on dashboard
- Fixed a bug with the text not drawing correctly for the Advanced network test
dashboard tile when a test was running

Release 9.0 build 1004 - 28th March 2018

- Fixed a bug with the DX12 test losing it's operations and cycle count after
15mins
- Fixed a possible "No operations" error for the DX12 test
- Fixed a bug with Advanced network, PCIE and serial port tests not updating
operations count when dashboard tab was not displayed, which could cause a "No
operations detected" error message.

Release 9.0 build 1003 - 23th March 2018

- Changes to the PCIe test for handling sleep states during testing
- Fixed a bug that could cause tests to end before their set runtime

Release 9.0 build 1002 - 20th March 2018

- Fixed a bug with "Install to usb" function not copying the required DX12 3D test
media files
- Fixed a bug where if all tests had finished (eg in an error condition) before
clicking stop button then BurnInTest could get stuck and not allow tests to be
stopped properly

Release 9.0 build 1001 - 16th March 2018

- Fixed some incorrect test icons on the dashboard
- Fixed a bug where times were not being sent correctly to the management console
while a test was running
- Increased max script line length to account for setting the maximum number of
supported serial ports for SETSERIALPORTS command
- Temperature, Fixed auto scroll checkbox not being applied when temperature
settings are changed
- Temperature, Fixed overlay text appearing outside graph area
- Temperature, Fixed flickering of lines when auto scroll is disabled
- Temperature, Fixed incorrect temperature time values in chart due to temperature
history wrapping back to 0

Release 9.0 build 1000 - 8th March 2018

New User Interface

- New tile based user interface
- Tests will now run on top of their tile button un user interface (instead of a
separate window) where appropriate
- Better scaling of user interface on 4K high DPI monitors

New TPM (trusted platform module) pre test

- Checks for presence of TPM, runs self test and queries for version.

CPU Test
- Added AVX, AVX2, FMA3 and FMA4 extensions
- Added checkbox for AVX, AVX2, FMA3 and FMA4 to test preferences
- Heat test, added new instructions to max heat test to maximize heat generation on
CPUs that support FMA & AVX instruction sets

RAM Test
- Improved the speed of the test by enabling memory caching.
To replicate the V8 behaviour an option has been added to the test preferences
to "Disable memory caching"
- Test now waits for USB3 benchmark test phase to complete before starting due to
the large amount of RAM required per USB3 plug during the initial benchmark phase
of the USB3 test.

Bluetooth Test
- Updated and improved Bluetooth test
- NEW Bluetooth Advance Loopback Test to send/receive with the current Endpoint
Software.
- Added Loopback test for Serial Bluetooth Devices (Tested with HC-06, Power to
VCC, Ground to Ground, RX looped to TX). Requires the device to be
paired/authenticated prior to be used in BurnInTest
- Bluetooth Loopback Test now supports up to 4 Remote Bluetooth devices.
- Added separate Duty cycle and preferences controls for Bluetooth test
- Added port range to Bluetooth test

2D Test
- Added new EMC test pattern �Color bars with moving element�, to comply with CISPR
32 (ITU BT.1729) standards
- Changed how example character is drawn on preferences window to better display
large fonts (96, 120 etc)
- Removed font size limit (previously 8-16) on scrolling letter 2D tests
- Allowed different font sizes to be selected for the scrolling H test and adjusted
the scroll speed to take into account monitor vertical resolution
- Added 2K & 4K resolution options

3D Test
- Added new DX12 option on supported systems (64bit win 10)
- Added 2K & 4K resolution options

USB3 Test
- Added slow speed threshold setting and warning message to USB3 loopback test
- Added a warning/error when USB3 plugs are not running at superspeed / 5Gb USB3
speed. This can be ignored by changing the BITErrorClassification.txt file
- Added ability to select USB3 plug connection speed for USB test
- Added memory allocation check when creating packet buffers for USB3 benchmark &
loopback tests
- Increased usb3 thread synchronization timeout from 1 minute to 2 minutes to avoid
synchronization timeout when multiple usb3 plugs (more than 4 plugs) are connected.

- Added a syncronization step before reading voltage from usb3 plugs

- Fixed a bug where sending simultaneous usb3 vendor commands could lead to failure
in running the commands
- Added "Auto" option to the USB3 connection types
- Improved thread synchronisation when a large number of test plugs are connected.
Many USB host controller's device drivers start to fail under high load (Open, Send
and Re-enumeration requests fail if system is under high load). This works around
most of the host controller flaws.

Disk Test
- Increased disk tests limit to 100 (from 80)
- Added a "max cycle" option to the disk test

Network test
- Added "Use 1st IP for all" network test option to preferences
- Added a new option to only select network cards that are connected/have an IP

Video Test
- Added option to mute audio when playing video

Serial Port test

- Added separate options to disable RTS/CTS and DSR/DTR test phase

Help
- Moved to a new help format (ewriter) so that help topics can be opened directly
in Windows 10

Temperature Monitoring & Charts

- Updated temperature graphs to be interactive and allow scrolling and zooming.
- Temperature collection and graphing will start by default when BurnInTest is
first launched so temperatures can be monitored without any tests running.
On test start the graph will be reset and on test stop the temperature monitoring
will be stopped to allow the graph from the test run to be saved.
- Temperature tab now has a split list view of three lists, CPU, GPU and HDD

Changed series colours to be more visually friendly

- Added checks for the maximum number of temperature sources to monitor
- Fixed scrolling/dragging issues
- Added zoom buttons
- Added support for multiple GPU temperature readings

Customer certificate template

- Added <!--TEMPERATUREGRAPH--> marker for inclusion of the temperature table chart

Scripting
- Added more USB options to scripting
- Added SETBLUETOOTH Scripting commands

Misc
- Added support for reading and logging fan speed from SpeedFan utility
- Fixed a bug when using the PHYSDISK command line parameter in WinPE where the
physical specific disk patterns were not available in the select all drop down
- Fixed some problems displaying the FMA3 support for CPUs in system information
- Added way to disable stop button, disable time and cycle settings when using
bitaccess.txt to prevent people changing the run time and stopping test early
- Added option to include the duty cycle of each test in the Report Information
window
- Turned optical test off by default.
- Removed GPGPU test from standard edition

Preferences
- Increased the size of Preferences window
- Changed temperature source/threshold combo boxes to editable list view with
checkboxes
- Combined Pre-Test/Post-Test tabs. Combined Serial Port/Parallel Port tabs
- Added %MCMACHINEID% flag to logging file name preferences to allow management
console ID to be used as part of the logging path
- Made some changes to the memory test preferences window tab for better
readability

Management console
- Updated & rewrote central management console database to hold testing results.

Release 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

Release 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
Release 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.

Release 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

Release 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

Release 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)

Release 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) sometime when a test
config was created from default or moved between system with different disk setups

Release 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

Release 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.

Release 8.1 build 1016 - 20 June 2016

- Added a benchmark test phase for USB3 as part of the test
- Added USB3 low level error reporting to the trace level log
- 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
- Now filtering "Bluetooth" named network cards from "All available ethernet" and
"All available 802.11" network test options
- Added "Microsoft Virtual" to list of filtered out adapter form network test to
account for "Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter" and "Microsoft Virtual WiFi
Miniport Adapter"
- 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).
- Fixed a bug with management console inital connect not sending all the system
information across
- Removed whitespace padding in some HTML output

Release 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

Release 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

Release 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

Release 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

Release 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.
Release 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

Release 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.

Release 8.1 build 1008 - 12 August 2015

- Corrected a bug introduced in v8.1.1006 where BurnInTest would not start on
Windows XP.

Release 8.1 build 1006 - 5 August 2015

- Added additional Intel i3/i5/i7 Broadwell desktop, Xeon E3 and AMD Kaveri
refresh CPU system information.

Release 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.

Release 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.

Release 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.

Release 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.

Release 8.1 build 1001 - 8 July 2015

- Minor improvements and corrections to the PCIe test.

Release 8.1 build 1000 - 6 July 2015

- New PCIe loopback and voltage test. Requires PassMark PCIe 2.0 loopback 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.

Release 8.0 build 1046 - 19 June 2015

- Correction to the "SETNETWORK" scripting command for setting the "LOOPBACK"
test mode.

Release 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.

Release 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.

Release 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.

Release 8.0 build 1042 - 29 April 2015

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

Release 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, Airmont
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.

Release 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.

Release 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.

Release 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.

Release 8.0 build 1037 - 9 February 2015

- Correction to a verify error in the disk High/Low test on a physical disk.

Release 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.

Release 8.0 build 1035 - 2 February 2015

- Added debug information for 3rd party temperature monitoring.

Release 8.0 build 1034 - 30 January 2015

- Added debug information for 3rd party temperature monitoring.
- 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.

Release 8.0 build 1033 - 28 January 2015

- Added debug information for 3rd party temperature monitoring.

Release 8.0 build 1032 - 7 January 2015

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

Release 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.
- Changes to the collection of Memory SPD information (for Intel801 SMBus).
- System information added for new Intel Broadwell-U CPUs.

Release 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.

Release 8.0 build 1029 - 19 December 2014

- A possible crash bug on start-up has been corrected for the collection of DDR4
memory information.

Release 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.

Release 8.0 build 1027 - 10 December 2014

- BurnInTest 8.0.1026 did not work on Windows XP. This has been corrected.
- On receiving GPGPU device errors, BurnInTest will now pause the GPGPU test
for a minute.

Release 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.

Release 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.

Release 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.

Release 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 display to be
smaller on high DPI monitors.
- Minor correction to start-up of 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.

Release 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.

Release 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.

Release 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.

Release 8.0 build 1019 - 17 October 2014

- Additional Intel Silvermont CPU (ATOM) non-burst frequency measurement
information added.
- The option to lock the tests to a single CPU has been corrected.
- Improvement to wrong license key version message.

Release 8.0 build 1018 - 15 October 2014

- Additional Intel Silvermont CPU (ATOM) non-burst frequency measurement
information added.
- Single 32-bit and 64-bit installation package changes.
- New debug logging for the sound loopback test.

Release 8.0 build 1017

WIN32 release 13 October 2014
WIN64 release 13 October 2014
- Intel Silvermont CPU (ATOM) non-burst frequency measurement information added.
- Single 32-bit and 64-bit installation package.

Release 8.0 build 1016

WIN32 release 10 October 2014
WIN64 release 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.

Release 8.0 build 1015

WIN32 release 3 October 2014
WIN64 release 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.
- Updated the nVIDIA library BurnInTest uses for graphics card information and
temperature collection.

Release 8.0 build 1014

WIN32 release 29 September 2014
WIN64 release 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.

Release 8.0 build 1013

WIN32 release 22 September 2014
WIN64 release 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.

Release 8.0 build 1012

WIN32 release 19 September 2014
WIN64 release 19 September 2014
- Improvements to the display on high DPI monitors.

Release 8.0 build 1011

WIN32 release 19 September 2014
WIN64 release 19 September 2014
- Corrected a crash bug on mouse wheel scrolling.
- Corrected a possible crash bug in the sound loopback test.
- Improvements to the display on high DPI monitors.

Release 8.0 build 1010

WIN32 release 17 September 2014
WIN64 release 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.
- 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.

Release 8.0 build 1009

WIN32 release 12 September 2014
WIN64 release 12 September 2014
- Improved support for high DPI monitors.
- Improved support for DDR4 memory system information.
- Haswell-E non-turbo speed collection + Codename, Socket, Lithography, stepping.
- Memory system information (SPD) support added for Ivy Bridge-EX/Haswell-EX 2nd
memory controller.
- 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 and 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.

Release 8.0 build 1008

WIN32 release 29 August 2014
WIN64 release 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.

Release 8.0 build 1007

WIN32 release 22 August 2014
WIN64 release 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.

Release 8.0 build 1006

WIN32 release 20 August 2014
WIN64 release 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" have 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.

Release 8.0 build 1005

WIN32 release 11 August 2014
WIN64 release 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 log
events, where the event log is very large.
- A possible scenario where Intel CPU temperatures are sometimes not collected
has been corrected.
- Minor debug logging changes.

Release 8.0 build 1004

WIN32 release 6 August 2014
WIN64 release 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 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 check for AMD powerexpress when searching for video cards (using the AMD
API) to try and correctly detect AMD graphics cards in laptops when using in
dual setup with 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.

Release 8.0 build 1003

WIN32 release 17 July 2014
WIN64 release 17 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.
- Minor updates to help.

Release 8.0 build 1002

WIN32 release 11 July 2014
WIN64 release 11 July 2014
- Correction for reported BurnInTest crash on exit.
- Additional debugging for the Video Playback test.

Release 8.0 build 1001

WIN32 release 4 July 2014
WIN64 release 4 July 2014
- It was possible that the Webcam test could fail on the first test, this has
been corrected.
- 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.
- Corrected the Disk serial number in reports (was shown as NA).
- 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.

Release 8.0 build 1000

WIN32 release 16 June 2014
WIN64 release 16 June 2014

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). Scripting commands have been added to support
this feature, e.g.:
SETTEST WEBCAM, UNSETTEST WEBCAM, RUN WEBCAM

- 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. Scripting commands
have been added to support this feature, e.g.:
SETBATTERY PRE_TEST YES MAIN_TEST YES USE_THRESHOLD YES THRESHOLD 30000
SETBATTERY PRE_TEST YES MAIN_TEST NO USE_PERC_THRESHOLD YES PERC_THRESHOLD 95

- 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 that 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).
SETTEST MICROPHONE, UNSETTEST MICROPHONE, RUN MICROPHONE

- Improved the CPU test:

- Added a new CPU test for AES. Scripting updated to allow AES testing.
SETCPU AES YES

- 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 scripting commands to support this, e.g:
SETDISK DISK c: MODE userdefined BLOCK 65536
SETDISK USERPATTERN 00AA00AA00AA00AA
- 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 select 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.
Changed scripting to support these options, e.g.:
SETNETWORK ADD13 "192.168.0.13"
- Improvement to the verification of the IPv6 Standard network test packet.
- 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, e.g. Nexus 5.
Specifically, if the "File Transfer" profile is not found on the Bluetooth
device, BurnInTest will now attempt to connect to the device using its
address and a range of ports.
- 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 (Network
port detection).

- 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 (by setting a duration of less than 30 seconds, and the
number of cycles to 1.
- 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, via e.g.
SETSOUND TEST LOOPBACK DEVICEOUT "Speaker". BurnInTest 7.x and earlier use
the default output device.

- 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
- Separate Operating System descriptions for Windows 8 and Windows 8.1.

- 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.

- System information added for 8970M/7730M/4810 video cards.

- System information added for AMD R9/R7 and 8700M/8800M video cards.

- Added disk volume GUID information

- The maximum number of SMART devices for System Information reporting has been
increased from 32 to 64.

- System information memory SPD improvements:

- 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.
- Changed the memory module number in the system information to be 0-based.
- 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.

- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- Temperature reporting and graphing now supported down to -50C (previously above
0C) where supported by the temperature source.
- Added fields to the Customer Test Certificate: System model, Motherboard
manufacturer and Motherboard serial number.

OTHER IMPROVEMENTS
- Pre-tests may now be run directly or scripted to run without a main body of
tests. For example, a webcam pre-test and touchscreen plugin pre-test may be
run with no other tests. Post test actions will occur after the Pre-tests if
there are no main tests to run.
- 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
descriptions.
- Background watermark on System Information page, so that at a glance it is
obvious
whether BurnInTest V7.x or V8.x is running.
- Minor temperature logging change.
- Corrected a possible crash bug when printing results as a post test action.
- 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.
- 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.
- Tested and documented network PXE booting a Windows image with BurnInTest
- When running BurnInTest on WinPE, BurnInTest will no longer attempt to create
a debug file (minidump) on encountering a crash.
- BurnInTest no longer converts old configuration files made with BurnInTest
6.0.1012
or earlier.
- Corrected a crash bug when starting the 3D test on a system with more than
10 monitors.
- Help updated for V8.0 and other minor improvements.
Release 7.1 build 1017
WIN32 release 18 September 2013
WIN64 release 18 September 2013
- Corrected a crash bug when collecting disk SMART information during startup
(problem reported on a single system).
- Windows 8.1 support confirmed (no changes made to BurnInTest). Minor change to
Rebooter.

Release 7.1 build 1016

WIN32 release 16 September 2013
WIN64 release 16 September 2013
- CPU temperature monitoring and additional CPU information for Intel Silvermont/
Bay Trail and Ivy Bridge-EP (e.g. i7-4930K).
- New scripting commands: SETTEMP THRESHOLD, SETTEMP AUTO_CPU, SETTEMP AUTO_GPU,
SETTEMP AUTO_DISK and SETTEMP SAMPLE.
- If Temperature->"Stop testing on threshold exceeded" was triggered for multiple
temperature sources at the same time, then the Stop tests action could occur
more than once (e.g. more than one FAIL Window could be displayed). This has
been corrected.

Release 7.1 build 1015

WIN32 release 6 September 2013
WIN64 release 6 September 2013
- The detailed memory information could be truncated in a small number of cases.
e.g. the serial number may not have been displayed. This has been corrected.

Release 7.1 build 1014

WIN32 release 30 August 2013
WIN64 release 30 August 2013
- Minor changes to the detection of no operations for the memory test.
Increased debug logging for a specific memory test no operations error.
- New scripting commands: SETTEMP SCALE and SETTEMP AUTO.

Release 7.1 build 1013

WIN32 release 23 August 2013
WIN64 release 23 August 2013
- New scripting commands: PLUGIN SIMULTANEOUS, PLUGIN IGNORE_NO_OPS,
SETMANAGEMENT. Support for 5 pre-test plugin's (up from 3). Improvements to
very long parameter handling in scripts.
- Added an error message for the case when Bootable BurnInTest is booted from
WinPE 3/Win7 (or lower) when connected to a USB 3.0 port and is not supported.
- Minor software text updates.
- Help updates.

Release 7.1 build 1012

WIN32 release 21 August 2013
WIN64 release 21 August 2013
- Added 2 new scripting commands, SETTEST and UNSETTEST. These allow tests to
be selected or de-selected in a script (without the use of a loaded
configuration file).
- Corrected the default Standard Network loopback address (problem introduced
in 7.1.1009).
- Corrected AMD Family 15h/16h temperatures (problem introduced in 7.1.1009).
- Added logging for the disk test if the test files can not be deleted.

Release 7.1 build 1011

WIN32 release 16 August 2013
WIN64 release 16 August 2013
- Management console defaults corrected for v7.1.1009 configuration file. This
led to too many status updates and BurnInTest being very sluggish when
managing BurnInTest with the Management Console.
- The Event Log "Description" column is now resized to fill any empty screen
space when the BurnInTest Window is resized.

Release 7.1 build 1010

WIN32 release 14 August 2013
WIN64 release 14 August 2013
- Disk serial numbers could be displayed for the wrong physical disk. This has
been corrected.
- Some additional information added for Intel Bay Trail CPUs.

Release 7.1 build 1009

WIN32 release 9 August 2013
WIN64 release 9 August 2013
- Updated CPU system information for newer CPUs (including: Cloverview,
Richland, Kabini, Temash, Delhi, Seoul, Abu Dhabi, Kyoto) as well as updated
models for existing CPUs. Includes temperature monitoring for AMD Kabini
(Family 16h) based CPUs, some newer Atom CPUs and some newer Ivy Bridge CPUs.
- Updated the Disk drive serial number and volumes information, as this may have
been shown as "N/A" when it was available.
- The results "Last error description" column is now resized to fill any empty
screen space when the BurnInTest Window is resized.
- Corrected crash on start-up (for incorrectly populated SMBIOS).
- Added system time zone information to activity trace logs.

Release 7.1 build 1008

WIN32 release 29 July 2013
WIN64 release 29 July 2013
- BurnInTest Management Console functionality added. Use of the Management
Console requires the Web server application to be separately obtained from
PassMark Software and installed on a Web server.
- Battery capacity plugin has a new �/fc� flag that can be used to change the
comparison to use �full charged capacity� instead of �current charge capacity�.
- Fixed a disk test scripting issue where the disk volume may not have been
set correctly.
- Fixed an issue reporting transcend SSDs model and serial number information.
- Updated video card system information.
- For consistency of logging the disk test block number, the logged block
numbers during read/verify now start at 1 (as per the logging for writing
blocks).
- Corrected a bug where very long reporting fields (machine type, serial number,
notes, customer name and technician name) could be truncated shorter than
they should have been.
- BurnInTest no longer supports test configuration files prior to BurnInTest V5.3.

Release 7.1 build 1007

WIN64 release 28 June 2013
- Scripting for the LPT number for the Parallel port test has been corrected.

Release 7.1 build 1006

WIN64 release 24 June 2013
- Corrected a logging filename bug where a Windows environment variable specified
in the "Log name prefix" field will lead to an extra "_" in the filename.
- Corrected a logging filename bug where the BurnInTest variable %REPORTSERIAL%
specified in the "Log file name" field could have the first character
incorrectly set to "-".
- Updated the help file.

Release 7.1 build 1005

WIN32 release 17 June 2013
- Improvements to Atom Family CPU information reporting.
- Added Temperature reporting for the Atom E680 and E680T.

Release 7.1 build 1004

WIN64 release 7 June 2013
- Fixed a bug where the Broadcom NetXtreme II network adapter is not displayed
in the system information.

Release 7.1 build 1003

WIN64 release 5 June 2013
- Added temperature reporting for Intel Haswell CPUs.

Release 7.1 build 1002

WIN32 release 3 June 2013
WIN64 release 3 June 2013
- Added MAC address for network cards to customer certificate system summary
- The "Save window as image" function will now default to and only allow the
"Visible section only" option when the focus is on the temperature graph.
- Fixed a bug where sometimes not all the physical network cards could be
displayed in the system information (more likely to occur on Windows Vista
and newer due to the large number of network devices).
- Fixed a crash that could occur on some systems when collecting system
information.
- Made some changes to prevent USB3 test threads from trying to start testing
the same plug.
- Updated battery capacity plugin to support new /p command line parameter
(PRO only).

Release 7.1 build 1001

WIN32 release 12 March 2013
WIN64 release 12 March 2013
- Added editable temperature threshold values for CPU/GPU/HDD sources when
using "auto select".
- Fixed a bug where if the temperature threshold value was exceeded at the
very start of the test run and using "stop testing on threshold exceeded"
an error was logged but the test might not stop.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when BurnInTest was exiting.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when running the USB3 test if the plug had
gone into suspend mode.
- Fixed a bug where invalid characters entered as part of a key when
installing to USB could cause the registration to fail after installing.

Release 7.1 build 1000

WIN32 release 4 February 2013
WIN64 release 4 February 2013
- Added USB3 loopback plug support to the USb test.
- USB loopback plug serial number has been added to the results and
logging summary.

Release 7.0 build 1017

WIN32 release 18 December 2012
WIN64 release 18 December 2012
- Added a new warning message when network card connection status
 cannot be read
- Stopped a connection error being logged at the start of the advanced
network when using Intel network cards, it is not possible to get
the connection status from them and was subsequently logging an error
- Fixed a bug in the scripting where the SETDISK option could sometimes
not set the drive letter to be tested correctly

Release 7.0 build 1016

WIN32 release 14 November 2012
WIN64 release 14 November 2012
- Added Bios version & date and network card info to test certificate
- Added %REPORTSERIAL% flag to log prefix option that will be replaced
with the serial number entered as part of the report information
- Added serial number and volume information when available to log file
wen listing the disk drives as well as their drive number so they
can be more easily matched to the disk being tested
- Changed behaviour so "automatically monitor temperature" options
defaults to off
- Changed behaviour so if the BitErrorClassification.txt file is read
only BurnInTest will no longer display an error
- Added a new error message "2D graphics test was interrupted"
- Fixed a crash that could occur if the 2D video memory test was interrupted
(for example by using ctrl-alt-del)
- Fixed a bug in the SETSERIALPORTS script command where the "SPEED"
component was not being interpreted correctly
- Fixed a bug in the SETSERIALPORTS script command where the "CYCLE_115K"
value for the "SPEED" component was not recognised
- Fixed a display issue where if "Automatically select temperature sources"
was unchecked but temperature sources were still selected the temperature
line on the results tab would not be displayed
- Fixed a crash caused by a timing issue when collecting system information
where the number of DIMM slots could be an invalid value
- Fixed a bug preventing the DVD test from starting correctly

Release 7.0 build 1015

WIN32 release 19 September 2012
WIN64 release 19 September 2012
- Added a "Ignore "no operations" timeout" option to the plugins
so no timeout warnings will be logged
- Changed behaviour so that the test preferences cannot be changed
if BurnInTest is still collecting system information at startup
- Changed behaviour so test start time is not recorded until after
pre test plugins have finished. Previously the start time was recorded
when the plugins started and the total test time was applied to them as well
- Fixed a bug in the physical (raw) disk test where the random data with
random seeking test could generate an incorrect data verify error
- Fixed a bug where the plugin name could be truncated in the log
- Fixed a case where DirectIO.sys could not be loaded correctly on
some versions of Windows

Release 7.0 build 1014

WIN32 release 1 August 2012
WIN64 release 1 August 2012
- Made some changes to the plugins test options to allow up to 5
pre test plugins to be run (PRO only)
- Added a new plugin option to specify whether to run plugins all
at the same time or on after the other (PRO only)
- Added new plugins to PRO edition (battery capacity, webcam,
microphone and sound)
Release 7.0 build 1013
WIN32 release 31 May 2012
WIN64 release 31 May 2012
- Fixed a bug preventing the parallel port test from starting
- Fixed a misplaced newline in the text log output
- Added missing report information (Machine Type, Serial and Notes)
to text and HTML logs

Release 7.0 build 1012

WIN32 release 8 May 2012
- Corrected a problem where some system information could not be collected on
32-bit XP. This problem was introduced in 7.0.1010 - removed System information
compatibilty with other PassMark applications.

Release 7.0 build 1011

WIN32 release 26 April 2012
WIN64 release 26 April 2012
- The temperature threshold could be used with the wrong temperature source.
This has been corrected.
- Other minor changes.

Release 7.0 build 1010

WIN32 release 4 April 2012
WIN64 release 4 April 2012
- System information updates for Intel and AMD CPUs.
- Reduced the CPU information collection time on very slow CPUs.
- Workaround for the AMD Llano (12h series) CPU for determining overclocked CPU
frequencies. Many of these CPUs are meant to have locked multipliers, but
in many cases they are not locked and in this case there appears to be a
CPU/BIOS issue that leads to the locked CPU frequency being reported, rather
than the configured CPU frequency.
- BurnInTest is now compatible with other PassMark applications including
PerformanceTest, RamMon and OSForensics. Previously, while monitoring
temperature with BurnInTest, some functions, like collecting certain system
information, were not available in PerformanceTest etc.
- Spelling corrections.
- Minor help file improvements.

Release 7.0 build 1009

WIN32 release 20 February 2012
WIN64 release 20 February 2012
- The CD/DVD burn test did not work on Windows XP. This has been corrected.
- System information updates for AMD CPUs.

Release 7.0 build 1008

WIN32 release 16 February 2012
WIN64 release 16 February 2012
- System information updates for Intel and AMD CPUs, and AMD GPUs.
- Temperature monitoring added for newer Intel and AMD CPUs.
- DirectIO.sys updated to version 9 to resolve a driver verifier issue when
collecting SMBIOS data.

Release 7.0 build 1007

WIN64 release 10 February 2012
- Correction for newer AMD CPU system information (multipliers) when the CPU was
loaded by other software.

Release 7.0 build 1006 rev 5

WIN64 release 8 February 2012
- Correction for newer AMD CPU system information (multipliers).
- CPU System information updates.
- Video card System information updates.

Release 7.0 build 1006 rev 4

WIN64 release 1 February 2012
- Correction to the Advanced network test Low NIC Threshold.
- Correction to the BurnInTest temperature monitoring threshold.
- Updated System information for newer Intel CPUs.

Release 7.0 build 1006 rev 3

WIN64 release 27 January 2012
- Correction for the BurnInTest v7.0 SETLOG scripting command (note: the
BurnInTest v6.0 SETLOG scripting command works and is unchanged).
- Correction to display the Temperature graph after the test has completed.

Release 7.0 build 1006 rev 2

WIN64 release 21 December 2011
- Updated System information for newer AMD and Intel CPUs.

Release 7.0 build 1006 rev 0

WIN32 release 16 December 2011
- Corrected a bug with the advanced network test error reporting when the test
is scripted and when accumulate results is selected.

Release 7.0 build 1005 rev 3

WIN32 release 12 December 2011
WIN64 release 12 December 2011
- PC Test Kit build.

Release 7.0 build 1005 rev 2

WIN32 release 5 December 2011
WIN64 release 5 December 2011
- Added a new command line parameter, -n [minimum volume size in MB], to allow
the automatic disk test selection to exclude disk volumes less than a specified
size. This could be useful to exclude the System reserved partition on an SSD
under WinPE.
- Correction to the CPU test if the CPU frequency cannot be detected (very rare
bug).
- Minor change to the GPU temperature collection.

Release 7.0 build 1005 rev 1

WIN32 release 1 December 2011
WIN64 release 1 December 2011
- Added System information for newer DDR3 modules (DDR3 SPD version 1.1 detection).
- Corrected a crash bug when collected GPT partition information on a
system with more than 1 GPT partition.
- Improved the physical Disk drive system information when used on WinPE.
- Correction to SSD drive indicator when used on WinPE.
- Corrected a bug where some BurnInTest v4.0 configuration files could not be
loaded.
- Minor logging improvements.

Release 7.0 build 1005 rev 0

WIN32 release 21 November 2011
WIN64 release 21 November 2011
- Tuned the memory test allocation when run with the disk test to avoid the
disk test running out of memory.
Release 7.0 build 1004 rev 9
WIN32 release 10 November 2011
WIN64 release 10 November 2011
- Corrected a bug where the Preferences->Post test application field didn't
work when command line parameters were specified with the application.
- Corrected a problem with the BurnInTest Standard 3D test where on some
systems it would not run and would display an DirectX initialization problem.
This was not a problem with BurnInTest Pro.
- Corrected a bug where in some cases BurnInTest could report the wrong disk as
an SSD.
- Corrected a bug where BurnInTest could incorrectly determine the number of
partitions on a raw disk that had previously been tested by the BurnInTest
physical disk test. This could cause subsequent physical disk tests on this
drive to fail.
- When starting BurnInTest with the command line parameter to reduce the amount
of system information that is collected, -w, the waiting for system
information window could still be displayed in some cases. This has been
corrected.
- When running on WinPE or Bootable BurnInTest, the physical disks that
can be tested are now explicitly restricted to raw disks. Previously this
limitation was only documented.
- Bootable BurnInTest (part of the PC Test Kit and Bootable USB Flash Drive
products) does not support the following tests and as such these tests have
been greyed out in the Test selection window: 2D, 3D, Video Playback, Sound,
Printer and Tape. Previously this limitation was only documented. These
limitations do not apply to BurnInTest when run from an installed operating
system.
- A very small number of USB drives have been found to cause BurnInTest to hang
when collecting disk information. These would appear to be faulty drives.
However, as they can cause BurnInTest to hang, especially on starting tests
with automatic temperature monitoring on, entering Preferences->Disk or
Preferences->Temp, changes have been made to work-around this problem. These
changes include the addition of timeout for a range of drive queries and the
removal of hot pluggable (USB) drives from the automatic temperature source
selection.
- Corrected a bug where in rare cases BurnInTest could crash when Activity level
2 trace logging is selected and when BurnInTest reads an event from a very
large Windows System or Application event log.
- Tuned the memory test to improve memory allocation on test startup.
- Improved the error location information for writing and reading to a physical
disk.
- Improved BurnInTest software exception handling to produce a mini-dump debug
file in more cases.
- Minor logging and documentation changes.

Release 7.0 build 1003 rev 5

WIN32 release 20 October 2011
WIN64 release 20 October 2011
- Corrected the Standard network test preferences for Bad packet ratios.
- Corrected the Advanced network test preferences for Half and Full duplex.
- Corrected the Advanced network test where a disabled IPv6 network interface
could be incorrectly displayed in preferences.
- Correct a crash on startup when collecting PCI information on a specific
system.
- Change to the 3D font error handling to prevent a crash during the 3D test
a particular system.
- Attempt to correct a crash with GPU temperature monitoring.
- Added the raw dump of sound wave samples on certain errors when level 2
 activity trace logging is selected.
- Improved event logging: remove a duplicate event, moved a trace level event
from normal level to level 1 trace event logging, and Plugins can now report
an event of severity "NONE".
- Minor improvements to the help file.

Release 7.0 build 1002

WIN32 release 22 September 2011
WIN64 release 22 September 2011
- BurnInTest 7.0 now supports Windows 8 developer preview.
- BurnInTest now uses the PassMark SysInfo SDK to get temperature information.
- The "Collecting system information" progress window was displayed when the
"-w" command line parameter was specified (to minimize the amount of system
information collected). This has been corrected.
- The "-a" command line parameter has been removed as it does not make sense
with BurnInTest 7.0 being run with elevated administrator privileges.
Use "-w" to minimize the amount of system information collected.
- BurnInTest could crash on the optical disk test when run with non-PassMark
test media, e.g. when run with a DVD video. This has been corrected.
- BurnInTest could crash on startup on a small number of systems when run in
debug mode. i.e. only when run with the "-u" command line parameter. This has
been corrected.

Release 7.0 build 1001

WIN32 release 14 September 2011
WIN64 release 14 September 2011

NEW TESTS and IMPROVEMENTS TO EXISTING TESTS

Touch screen test:
- BurnInTest now supports the testing of touch screens using the separate
PassMark MonitorTest product as a Pre-test plugin. PassMark MonitorTest
allows single touch tests and multi touch pan, zoom, rotate and tap
gesture tests.

CPU test improvements:

- The number of CPUs (Packages x cores x threads) that can be tested has
been increased to 256 (where supported by the Operating System). That is,
CPUs across multiple processor groups can be tested.
- It is now possible to raise an error on a user defined CPU temperature
threshold being exceeded. It is also possible to automatically stop
testing in this scenario.
- The duration of the individual CPU tests have been balanced to provide
better coverage of some SIMD CPU instructions.
- Improvements to CPU test memory allocation mean memory allocation errors
that may have been reported as out of memory CPU errors are now not reported
as CPU errors, but more likely as memory errors.

Memory test improvements:

- The memory tests have been optimized to test with higher loads on memory and
to run more quickly.
- A new memory adjacency cell test is now included to help detect more memory
errors where accessing a memory cell changes the value of an adjacent memory
cell.
- The memory test display has been improved to display write and read speed for
the Standard memory test and to not display any previous test results when
starting a new test.
- The ability to investigate system issues after an event that crashes BurnInTest
(like a driver crashing BurnInTest) has been improved. Specifically, in V6.0
the memory test could continue to run if BurnInTest had an unrecoverable
 error, this could make the system less responsive during post failure
investigation.

Disk test improvements:

- Added new disk self tests, short and extended. These are a set of built-in
routines implemented by the vendor to perform failure diagnostics on the
disk. They can report disk errors such as a failure:
- of the electrical element,
- of the servo and/or seek test element,
- of the read element,
- due to handling damage.
- SMART monitoring and reporting is now available on many external drives
(previously only available on internal drives).
- SMART reporting for disks is now supported when running a physical disk test
(previously only available on a disk volume test).
- The physical disk test is now available on formatted disks (that do not
contain Windows installations or paging files). In V6.0 the physical disk test
was only available on unformatted disks.
- A new disk test mode, Quick physical drive test, is now available for the
physical disk test. This tests the most important parts of the physical disk
and a random selection of the remainder of the disk. This provides for much
quicker disk testing.
- It is now possible to raise an error on a user defined Hard disk temperature
threshold being exceeded. It is also possible to automatically stop testing
in this scenario.
- Hard disk temperature monitoring is now supported on many external drives
(previously only available on internal drives).
- The floppy disk (A:) has been removed from the default disk preference
selection.

Standard Network test:

- Changed the Standard Network test to have two types of tests (1) Internal
loopback or (2) a test of all available Network ports. The preferences User
Interface has been simplified. This overcomes timeouts that could be reported
with the previous test when "Test all available Network ports" was set to
"No".
- Test up to 12 NICs (up from 6).
- Test IPv6 on Windows Vista and later (as well as IPv4).
- The Standard network test duty cycle load is now more linear (in V6.0 100%
duty cycle was significantly higher load than 99%).
- The default timeout has been increased from 2 seconds to 4 seconds.

Advanced Network test:

- Test up to 12 NICs (up from 6).
- Select to test from up to 20 local NICs (up from 10).
- Test can now test IPv6 on Windows Vista and later (as well as IPv4).
Note: BurnInTest and the Endpoints must support IPv4.
- The test window now displays all of the NICs being tested and it�s Endpoint.
- The test preferences now includes a Display Endpoints option to make it
clearer the number of endpoints currently available for testing.
- A low throughput threshold value can now be specified to raise a throughput
error.

Optical drive test improvements:

- The Optical disk configuration file is now portable across systems where the
optical drive configuration is different.
- The number of Optical drive tests has been increased from 20 to 26.
- If Select all available drives is selected and the automatic detection of
optical drives determines there are no drives, then the optical drive test is
 turned off.

2D test improvements:
- 2D video memory test cycle count definition has been changed so that 1 cycle
represents 1 full pass of the video test memory.

USB test improvements:

- Test up to 25 USB ports with the PassMark USB 2.0 Loopback plug (up from 10).
This also requires V7.0 of the USB 2.0 Loopback plug device driver.
- A new option to auto detect the number of USB plugs connected has been added.
There must be at least 1 plug for the test.
- The PassMark USB 2.0 Loopback plug is now compatible with other USB products
from other vendors. BurnInTest 7.0 supports USB testing when these other USB
devices are connected. Specifically, a 3rd party USB device uses the same
internal name as the USB 2.0 Loopback plug (with V6.1 of the device driver and
earlier) which meant that that USB device needed to be removed before USB
testing could be conducted with BurnInTest.

Sound Loopback test:

- Changed the Sound loopback test mechanism to use longer sampling durations.
This resolves a problem where the test could report false positives when the
CPU is under heavy load.

Serial Port test:

- The BurnInTest serial port test has been changed to configure the COM ports when
run from Microsoft WinPE 3.0 so that the COM ports can be tested.

Video Playback test:

- Added a default test video file (300x168) for Video Playback if no other video
files are available or selected.

Temperature:
- A new Temperature tab has been added to allow the monitoring of temperature
over the test period.
- Temperature can be monitored and reported for 6 temperature sources
(up from 3).
- Temperature can now be graphed for 6 temperature sources.
- Temperature sources can now be automatically selected by BurnInTest.
- Temperature can be monitored and reported for some nVIDIA and AMD GPUs (as
well as CPU and Hard disks).
- Temperature reporting included for new AMD CPUs (APUs).
- Temperature monitoring for Intel Core 2 CPUs (as well as later Intel CPUs).
- The final test temperatures are now displayed after the test has completed
(and reset on start of tests).
- The frequency temperature values that are to be sampled can now be specified.
The sampling now occurs regardless of which tab is displayed (previously the
Results tab needed to be displayed).
- It is now possible to raise an error on a user defined CPU, hard disk and GPU
temperature threshold being exceeded. It is also possible to automatically
stop testing in this scenario.
- Hard disk temperature monitoring is now supported on many external drives
(previously only available on internal drives).
- Selecting the Maximum CPU temperature as a Quicktest no longer turns off
temperature monitoring.
- Changed the CPU Quicktests to monitor CPU temperature only (if available).
Changed the 2D and 3D Quicktests to monitor GPU temperature (if available).
Changed the Disk Quicktests to monitor Disk temperature (if available)
- Changed the temperature preferences to validate temperature values for disks
before allowing them to be selected.
AUTOMATION
- Scripting has been extended to allow many common preference settings to be
set. Specifically, the following new scripting commands have been added:
- SETCPU
- SETDISK
- SETDEFAULTPREFERENCES
- SETERRORS
- SETNETWORK
- SETOPTICALDISK
- SETPRETEST
- SETPOSTTEST
- SETRAM
- SETSERIALPORTS
- SETPARALLELPORTS
- SETSOUND
- SETUSB
- SETVIDEOPLAYBACK
- SET2DGRAPHICS
- SETLOG (options have been expanded)
- BurnInTest can now be signaled to stop (and exit) by an external application.
- If a script file does not exist in the My Documents directory and no path is
specified an error message is now displayed.
- The Pre-test, launch application and don't wait now uses the default directory
(like the wait version) for configuration and scripting.
- Documented a command line parameter to set the screen resolution on starting
BurnInTest, intended for use with Microsoft WinPE.

NEW SYSTEM INFORMATION

- Updates for newer CPU and GPU models.
- Improved maximum CPU speed measurement.
- Improved the RAM module information that is displayed and reported. Detailed
RAM SPD module information is now available with trace file logging.
- System information summary now displays SSD's separately from HDD's.
- System information now displays USB 3.0 host controllers and the devices on
the hubs behind these host controllers.
- In the case that 2 GPUs from different vendors were installed, it was possible
that the description for one of these was incorrect. This has been changed.
- When BurnInTest is run on WinPE 3.x, BurnInTest did not report the COM ports
in the System Information section. This has been changed.
- Corrected the Video Card chip type description where gibberish could be
displayed after the description string.

REPORTING
- More than one report type can now be automatically saved, i.e. text, HTML and
the customer certificate can now all be selected.
- The trace file format can now be selected (rather than being the same format
as the main report file). Specifically if the report is HTML, the trace file
can be text (which is easier to analyze).
- Increased the length of report event lines from 100 characters to 200
characters. In particular the report line length was previously truncated for
some customer Plugins and Windows systems events.
- Changed the Logging Preferences, Clear results and append to existing log
file, option (which was creating a new log file for each test run).
- Copying text or HTML to the Clipboard will now copy both formats to the
clipboard such that a subsequent paste will be either text or HTML,
depending on the application.

GENERAL
- Improved support for not Latin (e.g. English) character sets. While BurnInTest
is in English, some information collected from the system or entered by the
user may now use non-Latin character sets.
- BurnInTest has been changed to run with elevated administrator privileges as
this is required for some tests and quite a lot of system information. This
also allows temperature monitoring to be turned on by default.
- The "FAIL" definition has been changed to include critical, serious and warning
events, but now exclude information level events.
- All events may now be configured to not be reported if they are not meaningful
in a specific test environment (by setting to NONE in
BITErrorClassifications.txt).
- A "preferences editor" mode has been added to create test configurations for
just about any system, without needing the hardware (e.g. configure hard disk
to be tested that are not on the local system).
Specifically, when specifying the command line parameter "Y":
- All HDD drive letters [A..Z] and physical disk numbers [0..99] are displayed
and allowed in Preferences->Disk;
- all optical disk drive letters [A..Z] are added to Preferences->Disk;
- CPU instructions not supported on the current system, are selectable.
- Files are not validated for existence: Plugin, sound, logging, video
playback, pre/ post test.
- Improved the look of the Event log window, making it easier to review the
events. This includes:
- The removal of the limit of displaying 1000 events.
- Sorting of events based on their severity, time, source and description.
- A contextual popup menu for clearing results and copying events to the
clipboard.
- Double clicking an event will now display a description of the common
errors.
- Improved the look of the Result log window, making it easier to review the
results. This includes:
- Sorting of events based on their test name, cycles, operations, errors
and last error description.
- A contextual popup menu for clearing results and copying events to the
clipboard.
- Reduced the start-up time on newer Intel CPUs.
- Changed the Disk, Optical drive and USB preference windows for consistency.
- The retry timeouts for some error types has been standardized.
- Removed a directory does not exist warning message from Preferences->Logging
when the directory of the log file is the root directory of a drive.
- Changed the internal handling of the Windows 2D GUI test such that it is
de-linked from the main BurnInTest Window and the main Window can now be
moved while this test is running.
- Changed the definition of Cycles for the 3D, Network, Video Playback and USB
tests to better balance the cycle count across tests.
- Add launch of cmd.exe option from BIT menu when running in WinPE.
- Other minor improvements and bug corrections.
- Help updates.

History of earlier releases:

Please see http://passmark.com/products/bit_history.htm

Documentation
=============
All the documentation is included in the help file. It can be accessed from
the help menu. There is also a PDF format Users guide available for download
from the PassMark web site.
Support
=======
For technical support, questions, suggestions, please check the help file for
our email address or visit our web page at http://www.passmark.com

Ordering / Registration
=======================
All the details are in the help file documentation
or you can visit our sales information page
http://www.passmark.com/sales

Compatibility issues with the Network and Parallel Port Tests

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If you are running Windows 2000 or Windows XP, you need to have
administrator privileges to run this test.

Enjoy..
The PassMark Development team