Perform Immediate Burn-In Testing

Oracle provides three ready-made scripts designed to test the general health of the devices on your system.

These scripts include:

• quick.tst

  This script performs a series of tests that require you to interact with the test software. When they require a user interaction, they stop and do not time out. These tests are faster than full.tst, but they are less thorough. For example, they do not run all the tests associated with a DIMM.

• noinput.tst

  This script performs a non detailed test of most hardware components, excluding those components that require user input (keyboard, mouse, sound, and video). This test does not require user input. It is normally the first test performed for hardware-related problems.

• full.tst

  This script performs a detailed and comprehensive test on all hardware components, including those that require user input. It includes external port tests and requires loopback connectors on COM ports, parallel ports, and USB ports. You must interact with the test utility to progress through these interactive tests.

You can also modify and create scripts, which you can then run using immediate burn-in testing. For details, see Create and Save Scripts (Deferred Burn-in Testing).

1. From the main menu, click Immediate Burn-In Testing.

   The page displays a list of settings and a Burn-In menu.

2. From the menu, click Load Burn-In Script.

   A text field appears.

3. Type the name of the script you want to run, for example: quick.tst, noinput.tst, or full.tst.
4. To change any of the options, at the bottom of the page, click Change Options.

   This opens the Burn-In Options menu, which enables you to modify the options listed in the following table for the currently loaded test script.

   
   

   Option Default General Default Using quick.tst, noinput.tst, or full.tst Script All Possible Choices Pass Control Overall Time Overall Passes Individual Passes, Overall Passes, or Overall Time Duration 01:00 1 Enter any number to choose the time duration of the test Script File N/A quick.tst, noinput.tst, or full.tst quick.tst, noiniput.tst, or full.tst Report File None None User defined Journal File None D:\noinput.jrl, D:\quick.jrl, or D:\full.jrl User defined Journal Options Failed Tests All Tests, Absent Devices, and Test Summary Failed Tests, All Tests, Absent Devices, and Test Summary Pause on Fail N N Y or N Screen Display Control Panel Control Panel Control Panel or Running Tests POST Card N N Y or N Beep Codes N N Y or N Maximum Fails Disabled Disabled 1–9999

5. Click Perform Burn-In Tests.

   The diagnostics software executes the test script as configured.

Create and Save Scripts (Deferred Burn-in Testing)

1. From the Pc-Check main menu, select Deferred Burn-in Testing.

   The top portion of the window lists the options described in the table shown in Step 4 of Perform Immediate Burn-In Testing, and the bottom portion of the window lists the Deferred Burn-in menu options.

2. To modify the list of tests and the options, select one or both of the following:
   • Change Options

     Opens the Burn-in Options menu, which enables you to modify the various options listed in the table in Perform Immediate Burn-In Testing for the currently loaded test script.

   • Select Tests

     Opens a listing of all the possible types of tests available for you to run for the currently loaded test script.

3. When you have finished, select Save Burn-in Script and type the name for the new script.

   Type d:\testname.tst where testname is the name of the script that you have created.

4. To run the newly created script, see Immediate Burn-in Testing and run the script.

   See Perform Immediate Burn-In Testing.