Re: PC testing software

["Norm Dennis" <nhdennis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On my system I have a folder C:\WINDOWS\Minidump where I usually find the
minidump data.  

Unfortunately, I have always had difficulty interpreting it.
Hopefully Lucas will shed some light ;-)


Norm Dennis


-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Jeff Crosby
Sent: Tuesday, 27 April 2010 9:55 PM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] PC testing software

Power Supply test:  Ah, that makes sense.

Analyze minidumps:  Are you referring to minidumps created by OCCT?  Or
created when the BSOD happened?  I'm not aware of any dumps created by
either.


On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Lukas Beeler <lukas.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 13:56, Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > I'm starting on the OCCT tests today.  This is a weird one.  I clicked
on
> > 'Power Supply' yesterday and got a warning that it was very hard on the
> > power supply, and to proceed at my own risk.
>
> The Power Supply test just runs all the tests in parallel, maximizing
> the power demand.
>
> > Supply test.  It looks suspiciously like the "GPU:OCCT" test that I ran
> for
> > a few minutes yesterday just to see what it was.  Is this right?  I'm
> also
> > guessing that if I minimize that window, the test will not be valid as
> it's
> > not doing the graphics while minimized.
>
> Yes, since this is a graphics test, it must run in the foreground. All
> the other tests (CPU, RAM) run in the background.
>
> The fact that your machine survived a few rounds of IntelBurnTest
> would suggest to me that it's not a CPU/Mainboard/RAM Problem, which
> makes debugging this a lot harder.
>
> It might make sense to analyze the minidumps created.
>
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