General Test Question-Running other software with BurnInTest

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  • Anonymous
    Senior Member
    • Jan 2003
    • 286

    #1

    General Test Question-Running other software with BurnInTest

    Should BurnInTest program be the only program running during the test.
  • David (PassMark)
    Administrator
    • Jan 2003
    • 11033

    #2
    The less you have running the better, but having said that, in general running other software at the same time is not going to be a problem.

    BurnInTest uses a lot of RAM and CPU time. So any other application will most likely run very slowly. On top of this having other applications running will use some of the available RAM and mean that less RAM is available for the RAM test.

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    David
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    • Robin
      Newbie
      • Oct 2005
      • 1

      #3
      Combining two topics: We have always run our main application during the burn test. Since we have changed over to V4 we are seeing a number of ATI graphics card failing with video memory corruption errors. The main application is using DirectX to display video streams on the screen. Could this duel use be causing the increase in failures that we are seeing?

      Thanks
      Robin

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      • David (PassMark)
        Administrator
        • Jan 2003
        • 11033

        #4
        See this post for information about video memory corruption.
        http://www.passmark.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=280

        In summary you can ignore a few of these errors. If you get a lot of them, then you should be more concerned.

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