CD Bootable Prime95 Substitute
Ed Light
a bootable CD?
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~misfit~
> 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.
Ed Light
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.
User
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.
Boo
> Is there a Prime95 equivalent torture test that comes in an iso to make
> a bootable CD?
>
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,
--
Boo
Ed Light
Thanks, guys.
Ultimate Boot CD For Windows has Prime95 on it, so I'm downloading the
package right now.
Ed Light
>
> 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.
~misfit~
> ~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~
Thanks. I've bookmarked that for downloading at a time whan my intarweb
connection is behaving. Looks interesting.
Cheers,
--
Shaun.
~misfit~
>>
>> 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~
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.
Phil Weldon
_____
I'd be satisfied with ANY reliable temperature monitor with ANY operating
system- I still haven't found anything for my EVGA 680i motherboard for all
the temperatures that the BIOS reports, even for monitoring applets that
correctly identify the Winbond chip! MotherBoard Monitor (and simpler
motherboards) spoiled us.
And Intel TAT won't work for the 45 nm CPUs B^(
Perhaps there's a small 'nix bootable system & monitoring applet?
Phil Weldon
"~misfit~" <misfi...@hooya.com.au> wrote in message
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Fishface
> And Intel TAT won't work for the 45 nm CPUs B^(
Maybe they'll update it?
I read that a lot of the 680i boards do not support the 45nM parts after all.
It's in the board design and not the chipset, I think. Does yours?
Phil Weldon
> I read that a lot of the 680i boards do not support the 45nM parts after
> all.
> It's in the board design and not the chipset, I think. Does yours?
I don't know whether my EVGA 680i works with the 45 nm Core 2 CPUs or not
(in fact, my early 680i may not even work nicely with a 65 nm quad.
At this point, after sticking with my E4300 for 13 months, I might as well
wait the whole two years and go for a 'Nehalem', DDR3, and a new motherboard
in April 2009. After all, I stuck with an overclocked Pentium 4 2.6 until
the E4300. I don't have the 'pass-along' chain I once had (starting with a
Pentium 90); my wife and son are laptop only now and my daughter deserted to
Apple. As for my brother, well, he's still running Windows 98 on his
machines (not a gamer, and his 4 foot wide plotter might have a driver
problem) and has yet to set up the Pentium 4 2.6 GHz I gave him a year ago.
Phil Weldon
"Fishface" <inv...@ddress.ok?> wrote in message
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~misfit~
> 'Shaun' wrote, in part:
> _____
>
> I'd be satisfied with ANY reliable temperature monitor with ANY
> operating system- I still haven't found anything for my EVGA 680i
> motherboard for all the temperatures that the BIOS reports, even for
> monitoring applets that correctly identify the Winbond chip!
That must be frustrating. I'm fairly happy with the temp monitoring apps I'm
using with my P35 mobo after trying everything I could find I'm using
CoreTemp and SpeedFan with Hard Disk Sentinel taking care of the four HDDs.
> MotherBoard Monitor (and simpler motherboards) spoiled us.
Indeed, those were the days. I still have MBM5 installed for the CPU usage
display in the systray, it's pretty much useless for anything else..
> And Intel TAT won't work for the 45 nm CPUs B^(
I was intending to get an E8400 at some stage but my E4500 is ticking along
nicely at 3.2 GHz/400Mhz FSB (It'll run stable at 413MHz/3.3GHz but I
decided to round it down, I'm not taxing it in the slightest as it is). As
it's more than adequate for everything I'm throwing at it I've decided
there's not much point (other than bragging rights) in me getting an E4500.
At least not in the foreseeable future.
> Perhaps there's a small 'nix bootable system & monitoring applet?
Now that would be good indeed. A USB based system perhaps.
Cheers,
--
Shaun.
Ed Medlin
Ed Medlin
>> I read that a lot of the 680i boards do not support the 45nM parts after
>> all.
>> It's in the board design and not the chipset, I think. Does yours?
> _____
>
> I don't know whether my EVGA 680i works with the 45 nm Core 2 CPUs or not
> (in fact, my early 680i may not even work nicely with a 65 nm quad.
>
> At this point, after sticking with my E4300 for 13 months, I might as well
> wait the whole two years and go for a 'Nehalem', DDR3, and a new
> motherboard in April 2009. After all, I stuck with an overclocked Pentium
> 4 2.6 until the E4300. I don't have the 'pass-along' chain I once had
> (starting with a Pentium 90); my wife and son are laptop only now and my
> daughter deserted to Apple. As for my brother, well, he's still running
> Windows 98 on his machines (not a gamer, and his 4 foot wide plotter might
> have a driver problem) and has yet to set up the Pentium 4 2.6 GHz I gave
> him a year ago.
>
> Phil Weldon
>
the E6600 and 680i on to my son and I am quite satisfied with this
Q6600/Striker combo for another 8-10 months. Maybe another Spring project
will be in order for 2009?...........:-). Unless something really
ground-breaking happens in the video card arena I can split up these 8800GTX
cards or use the 8800GT I have still in the box for this system and use the
SLI'd cards in a new one.....:-) The 9xxx series hasn't shown me much,
certainly not enough to spend the cash. I did upgrade from the E6600 to the
Q6600 over the last year, but that is pretty minor.........pretty much a
wash with a little edge to the Quad in RL performance GHz/GHz.
Ed
Ed Light
> It's just a shame there's no CPU temp monitoring at the same time.
on by default. Maybe one of those does it.
> 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.
Did it hold on for hours?
--
~misfit~
> The build options had tons of little things you could add that weren't
> on by default. Maybe one of those does it.
I was reporting on "The Ultimate Boot CD". The version I have was burnt from
an ISO I downloaded. No options there. :-(
>> 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.
>
> Did it hold on for hours?
Yep, ran for three hours before I stopped it. (I'm confident that it's
stable, I was testing the boot CD rather than the machine. ) :-)
Cheers,
--
Shaun.
Ed Light
> Somewhere on teh intarweb "Ed Light" typed:
>>> It's just a shame there's no CPU temp monitoring at the same time.
>> The build options had tons of little things you could add that weren't
>> on by default. Maybe one of those does it.
>
> I was reporting on "The Ultimate Boot CD". The version I have was burnt from
> an ISO I downloaded. No options there. :-(
>
Now it's a build-it-at-home thing. During building you get a huge list
of customizations (can't remember if you have to click a button for
those). He says make one without altering stuff at first to see if it
works ok. You can update the security apps during build setup.
http://www.ubcd4win.com/howto.htm
~misfit~
> ~misfit~ wrote:
>> Somewhere on teh intarweb "Ed Light" typed:
>>>> It's just a shame there's no CPU temp monitoring at the same time.
>>> The build options had tons of little things you could add that
>>> weren't on by default. Maybe one of those does it.
>>
>> I was reporting on "The Ultimate Boot CD". The version I have was
>> burnt from an ISO I downloaded. No options there. :-(
>
> Now it's a build-it-at-home thing. During building you get a huge list
> of customizations (can't remember if you have to click a button for
> those). He says make one without altering stuff at first to see if it
> works ok. You can update the security apps during build setup.
>
> http://www.ubcd4win.com/howto.htm
Wow! It's a whole different ball game now. Good for customisation I guess.
Cheers,
--
Shaun.