RE: [OT] Stressing hardware under windows
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Faheem Mitha [mailto:faheem@email.unc.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 04:58 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: [OT] Stressing hardware under windows
>
>
>
> Dear People,
>
> This is a offtopic question, but is related to Linux in that
> I need to do
> something in Windows I can easily do in Linux, and I wondered
> if someone
> could help me.
>
> I'm about to purchase a machine to install Debian on, but the
> people I'm
> getting it from only support Windows. I want to put the hardware under
> some load, but there doesn't seem to be any canonical way to
> do this in
> Windows. If they know Linux stuff I would just ask them to
> recompile the
> kernel a bunch of times. But this is probably not an option here.
>
> A friend suggested that I simply use a simple C program that
> will simply
> write to and from the hard disk very fast, and then keep it
> running on the
> machine. I wouldn't know how to write something like this off
> the top of
> my head. Does anyone have anything like this to hand or have other
> suggestions?
>
> Please CC me; I'm not on the list. Thank you.
>
> Sincerely, Faheem Mitha.
>
>
Hi,
While it's not a windows program, I really like:
http://www.tufftest.com/
^^ This is what I use when I get a new system. Burn in for a few days.
Warning: No SCSI support if the card does not supply it's own BIOS.
And some time ago I used to use:
http://www.smithmicro.com/checkit/
^^ I do not know why I switched to Tuff Test as this program has a
*LONG* history in the IT industry.
HTH
Sam Stern
Bethesda, MD, USA
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