I just had a look on our baseline download page. Maybe it was incompatible with the particular motherboard, maybe it didn't like the dual CPUs or maybe it was a device driver bug.
#Pc locks up on intel burn test install#
iso at a slow speed (4x) and verify when complete Eliminate hardware and corrupted install disk possibilities. Was another OS on the drive before Did you burn the install. iso burns a bootable version and verify its ok. So it is 100% sure the nVidia card had something to do with the problem. On another computer you can dowmload and run the Western Digital drive utility quick test. Swapping the video card for a ATI Radeon X600 fixed the problem. After spending many hours looking at the problem we gave up. The Intel burn test is definitely an internal tool that is designed for in-house testing. Prime calculations utilize 100 usage reflecting daily use, thats why it is a fantastic piece of software. further testing indeed showed it to be a bad stick of RAM. I eventually ran intel burn test, and at pass 12 it flagged it as instable. We contacted NVidia (who never bother replying) and HP (who suggested some things to look at). However the Intel burn test doesnt represent 100 daily computing. I have seen MEmtest 86 pass for 22+ hrs, yet still get occasional lock ups, looping sound, and everything frozen during a few gaming sessions. Ive tried this in three different programs and every time Im about 6 percent into a dvd burn the program locks up, explorer locks up, and most programs cant launch. That was with a HP Dual Xeon machine with a NVidia 6600 video card. It would lock up about once every 3 days with doing video intensive actions (e.g. We had a similar lock up issues on one of our development machines. It is very hard to know what the cause is.