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If you’re unlucky you can lose your files completely or have them permanently corrupted. Even if you have good backups, you can still lose days of work returning the PC to its pre-failure state. In many cases the lost data can never be replaced and businesses can be brought to their knees, with the loss of documentation, customer details and financial records.
What BurnInTest does is thoroughly exercise the hardware in a PC in a short period of time, in the same way as normal applications use a PC over a long period of time. This takes advantage of the fact that computer hardware tends to fail either very early in its life or after many thousands of hours of use. Typically BurnInTest should be used before a PC is put into service, as a failure of a computer that isn’t being used for a critical application and doesn’t have any critical data is much less damaging, (especially if it is still under warranty). BurnInTest will bring to the surface intermittent or hidden problems so that after a successfully run the computer can be used with a much higher level of confidence. BurnInTest tests the CPU via mathematical operations and MMX/SSE calculations, Hard drives, CD/DVD/BD ROMs, CD/DVD burners, Sound cards, 2D graphics, 3D graphics, Video playback, Printers, Memory & Network connection. (BurnInTest Pro additionally tests Tape drives, Serial ports, Parallel ports and USB 1.x and 2.0 ports with loop back connectors). If you have specialized hardware that BurnInTest does not test, you can even write your own test and integrate it with BurnInTest. PassMark has produced "Plugin" tests for Keyboards, Dial up Modems and FireWire ports. All these tests can be done simultaneously as the application is multithreaded.
 Installing BurnInTest to a USB drive or an optical disk
It is possible to install BurnInTest Professional onto a USB drive or CD/DVD/BD such that no installation is required on the test system. This can be useful in a number of scenarios, such as field staff testing PC's without installing BurnInTest on the test system. When running BurnInTest this way, there will be no files left on the PC after BurnInTest has finished. The procedure is the same for a optical disks, but as it is not writeable for log files, logging should be either turned off or specified to be on a writeable drive . You can also get more sophisticated by having multiple test configurations, there is some information about this in the online help file. When BurnInTest is run from a removable drive when installation in this way, the default directory for the User Files (like reports and the configuration file) is the BurnInTest directory. Rather than the normal default directory of the User's personal directory. The command line parameter "/p" required in V5.x in this scenario is now turned on automatically, and is no longer required for a USB drive installation.
Installing BurnInTest to a USB drive
This installation process can be performed for a USB drive installation (any writable drive) using the menu option "File"->"Install BurnInTest to a USB drive".  From the "Install BurnInTest to a USB drive" Window, you need to specify:
 When you select install, BurnInTest will create the directory on the USB drive (e.g. F:\BurnInTest), copy all of the files from the BurnInTest directory (e.g. C:\Program Files\BurnInTest) to the USB drive (e.g. F:\BurnInTest) and install the license information onto the USB drive.  Installing BurnInTest to an optical disk
To install BurnInTest on an optical disk (CD/DVD/BD) follow the process above, but specify a writable temporary directory in step 1 (e.g. C:\BurnInTest). On completing the installation to the temporary directory, burn the created directory to the optical disk.  PassMark BurnInTest - 64bit software
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New version! - 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. Anyone who has used computers for any period of time knows the importance of having a stable system. The cost of a hardware failure can be enormous. If you are lucky your data will only become inaccessible while faulty components are replaced.
