[geeks] "Stress test" for Vista system - suggestions sought...

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Sep 8, 2007, at 7:31 PM, Lionel Peterson wrote:

> OK, OK, keep your smart-aleck remarks to yourself, but I've just  
> put together a system,a nd I am concerned about its "health" - I  
> want to "burn it in" for a while (overnight should do it), and the  
> machine currently has Vista installed - anyone have some ideas?
>
> I'd rather not load an involved "distributed" problem-solving  
> program SETI at Home got too confusing for me ;^), but if there is  
> anything that I could either run under Vista or run off media (Live  
> CD, etc.) that would be perfect...

There is mersenne prime checker, mersenne.org - you don't need to  
download units to work on, just do the stress test.  Also memtest86  
which is a very small iso you burn to CD and boot off of (Vista is  
not running, you boot into memtest86 directly).

--Patrick