On Thursday August 28 2003 04:25 pm, Heather/Femme wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 13:21, Tom Brinkman wrote:
> <snip>
>
> > run the appropriate 'burn' module on your
> > (her) system, it's not stable IMO. Many store bought (ready
> > made) computers won't pass. Any laptop surely won't. There's no
> > reportin, the system either stays up or fails. Usually just a
> > spontaneous reboot. CPU temp monitoring durin the test is
> > almost imperative. If it gets too high, Ctrl+C will abort the
> > test.
> >
> > For ready mades an laptops, I'd suggest a lengthly run of
> > mprime-17, the torture test. That's as close as you'll get.
> > These tools, mprime an cpuburn, are old overclockers tools to
> > test stability. Not really a check for Winblows faults.
>
> Hm...just went to the link you provided... I used a diff cpuburn
> program I guess.
>
> I found it originally thru google IIRC here:
>
> http://users.bigpond.net.au/cpuburn/
>
> is that not the same program!?
>
> Confuzzled Femme
'urpmi cpuburn' The Mandrake rpm is on your CD's and on the
mirrors. cpuburn-1.4-4mdk
[tom /tom] $ burn
burnBX burnK6 burnK7 burnMMX burnP5 burnP6
IIRC, you've got a Intel cpu, so use 'burnP6'
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