CD Bootable Prime95 Substitute

Ed Light

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

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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Ed Light

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.
---
Ed Light

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Thanks, robots.

~misfit~

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.

~misfit~

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:
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>>
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>>
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>>
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>> Thanks, robots.
>
> mcnlive on a usb stick with "stress" or "cpuburn" or "crashme"
> installed?
> 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.

~misfit~

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.

~misfit~

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.

~misfit~

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:
>>
>>
>> Bring the Troops Home:
>>
>>
>>
>> Iraq Veterans Against the War:
>>
>>
>>
>> Send spam to the FTC at
>>
>> Thanks, robots.
>
> mcnlive on a usb stick with "stress" or "cpuburn" or "crashme"
> installed?
> 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.

~misfit~

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.

~misfit~

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.
--
Shaun.