CD Bootable Prime95 Substitute

Is there a Prime95 equivalent torture test that comes in an iso to make
a bootable CD?

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Somewhere on teh intarweb "Ed Light" typed:
> Is there a Prime95 equivalent torture test that comes in an iso to
> make a bootable CD?

Not that I know of Ed but I'd be very interested if you find one. It would
save risking OS corruption when overclocking. If it needs to be able to
write then it could be USB stick based I guess.

Cheers,
--
Shaun.

~misfit~ wrote:
> Somewhere on teh intarweb "Ed Light" typed:
>> Is there a Prime95 equivalent torture test that comes in an iso to
>> make a bootable CD?
>
> Not that I know of Ed but I'd be very interested if you find one. It would
> save risking OS corruption when overclocking. If it needs to be able to
> write then it could be USB stick based I guess.
>
> Cheers,

With a partition and boot manager you can make a little system partition
to boot from that can be sacrificed, and restored from an image. I use
bootitng. But I'm planning to overclock someone's pc on a visit out of
town and it would be nice not to have to mess with the partitions.
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Ed Light wrote:
> Is there a Prime95 equivalent torture test that comes in an iso to make
> a bootable CD?
>
I don't know of any pre-existing .iso files to do that job but you could
customise BartPE <http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/> or "Ultimate Boot CD for
Windows" <http://www.ubcd4win.com/index.htm> to have Prime95 included.

Note: the BartPE website seems to be down atm.

Hth,

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Boo

Thanks, guys.

Ultimate Boot CD For Windows has Prime95 on it, so I'm downloading the
package right now.

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Ed Light wrote:
>
> Thanks, guys.
>
> Ultimate Boot CD For Windows has Prime95 on it, so I'm downloading the
> package right now.

It works. It's a very big, long project to make the CD. It has both
memtest and Prime95. memtest is available when the CD first boots.
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Somewhere on teh intarweb "Ed Light" typed:
> ~misfit~ wrote:
>> Somewhere on teh intarweb "Ed Light" typed:
>>> Is there a Prime95 equivalent torture test that comes in an iso to
>>> make a bootable CD?
>>
>> Not that I know of Ed but I'd be very interested if you find one. It
>> would save risking OS corruption when overclocking. If it needs to
>> be able to write then it could be USB stick based I guess.
>>
>> Cheers,
>
> With a partition and boot manager you can make a little system
> partition to boot from that can be sacrificed, and restored from an
> image. I use bootitng. But I'm planning to overclock someone's pc on
> a visit out of town and it would be nice not to have to mess with the
> partitions. ---

I basically do the same thing with my own computer. I have a 5 GB partition
for Windows (XP Pro) that I back up regularly (using Acronis True Image) and
always back up before doing any major overclocking. It only takes a minute
or two to back up, a bit longer to restore from backup. This has the dual
advantages of having the backup file fit on a DVD writable and also Windows
doesn't make a big mess scattering files all over a large partition. 5 GB is
quick and easy to defrag.

However, it'd be nice to have a way to do a similar thing on someone else's
computer without having to mess with their partition set up.

Cheers,
--
Shaun.

Somewhere on teh intarweb "User" typed:
> Ed Light wrote:
>> Is there a Prime95 equivalent torture test that comes in an iso to
>> make a bootable CD?
>>
>> ---
>> Ed Light
>>
>> Better World News TV Channel:
>> http://realnews.com
>>
>> Bring the Troops Home:
>> http://bringthemhomenow.org
>> http://antiwar.com
>>
>> Iraq Veterans Against the War:
>> http://ivaw.org
>> http://couragetoresist.org
>>
>> Send spam to the FTC at
>>
>> Thanks, robots.
>
> mcnlive on a usb stick with "stress" or "cpuburn" or "crashme"
> installed? http://www.mcnlive.org
> If I remember right you could re-author your livecd from the live usb
> drive with any program that you installed in your live usb session.
> Maybe. I don't know, I can't remember. Anyway mcnlive is amazing on
> any pc that I have tried it on.

Thanks. I've bookmarked that for downloading at a time whan my intarweb
connection is behaving. Looks interesting.

Cheers,
--
Shaun.

Somewhere on teh intarweb "Ed Light" typed:
> Ed Light wrote:
>>
>> Thanks, guys.
>>
>> Ultimate Boot CD For Windows has Prime95 on it, so I'm downloading
>> the package right now.
>
> It works. It's a very big, long project to make the CD. It has both
> memtest and Prime95. memtest is available when the CD first boots.

Thanks for that Ed. I believe that I actually have Ultimate Boot CD burnt
and stashed away somewhere (never used it, LOL). I'll have to dig it out and
have a go.

Cheers,
--
Shaun.

Somewhere on teh intarweb "~misfit~" typed:
> Somewhere on teh intarweb "Ed Light" typed:
>> Ed Light wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks, guys.
>>>
>>> Ultimate Boot CD For Windows has Prime95 on it, so I'm downloading
>>> the package right now.
>>
>> It works. It's a very big, long project to make the CD. It has both
>> memtest and Prime95. memtest is available when the CD first boots.
>
> Thanks for that Ed. I believe that I actually have Ultimate Boot CD
> burnt and stashed away somewhere (never used it, LOL). I'll have to
> dig it out and have a go.

Heh! So I had a tool that will do it here the whole time! I have ver 4.1.1
(I think, it's written on the disk which is in another machine right now).

It's just a shame there's no CPU temp monitoring at the same time. Still,
that's asking a bit much from a bootable CD, maybe a USB solution would
hadle that.

Oh, it didn't even complete one test. (I know the machine's stable.) It came
up with "spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7." after about 60 seconds. :-(

Ok, LOL, it's still running, the second test/line just appeared on screen.
(It's an old Athlon XP T'bredB currently running at 1.8GHz. It'll do 2.2
easy but there's no need for it in it's current use.) I guess the version of
Prime must just have a bit of extra reporting built-in.
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Shaun.