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BURN-IN
User's Manual
By
George Campbell
1472 Sixth St.
Los Osos, CA 93402
BURN-IN is a simple program, designed to test your computer.
It is especially useful for new computers, still under the
warranty period. Run BURN-IN for at least 72 hours to
thoroughly test your equipment. If something is going to
fail, it will probably fail during the initial burn-in
period. Most manufacturers will remedy problems that happen
during the initial 30 days or so.
What BURN-IN does.
It exercises the following components:
1. Disk drives
2. CPU
3. Monitor
4. Display adapter
5. RAM memory.
BURN-IN runs a complete and exhaustive routine that
thoroughly excercises these components of your computer. It
cycles through its routines constantly until you exit from
the program.
Setting Up a BURN-IN Working Disk
BURN-IN is designed to be run from Drive A: of your system.
Before using it, you need to create a working disk. Place
the disk containing the BURN-IN files in Drive A: Be sure
to have a formatted floppy available. It will become your
working disk. Now follow the steps below:
1. If you are using a system with two floppy disks, place
the blank, formatted disk in drive B: and the original BURN-
IN disk in drive A:
2. Enter the command: SETUP
3. If your system has one floppy disk, and a hard disk
called Drive C:, place the original disk in drive A: and
enter the command: HDCSETUP. The program will prompt you to
insert the blank, formatted disk at the appropriate time.
4. If your system has one floppy disk, and a hard disk
called drive D:, follow the instructions in step 3, but
enter the command: HDDSETUP. Follow the screen
instructions.
NOTE: On hard disk systems, the installation programs end
by erasing un-needed BURN-IN files from the hard disk. The
last command in the installation program removes the
installation program itself. This causes the error message:
"Batch File Missing." to appear. Ignore this message.
Running BURN-IN
Once you have created the working disk, you are ready to run
BURN-IN on any IBM-compatable system. Place your working
disk in drive A: of the computer and enter the command: GO
You will see an opening screen. Follow the instructions
shown on the screen.
On systems with two floppy drives, be sure to place a blank,
FORMATTED disk in drive B: before starting the program. If
you forget, the program prompts you when the menu screen
appears.
Choose the appropriate system configuration from the menu.
Press the number of your selection, then press <Enter>.
BURN-IN will cycle through its routines. Each cycle will
take approximately one hour, depending on the speed of the
machine and the configuration you have chosen.
The cycle will repeat endlessly until you decide to quit.
Exiting from BURN-IN
When you've had enough, or you want to use your computer for
another purpose, hold down the <Ctrl> key while you press
the <Break> key.
BURN-IN will exit at the end of the current routine.
your system's confifuration.
WARNING!!!!!! ALWAYS ALLOW BURN-IN TO EXIT BY USING THE
<Ctrl>-<Break> COMBINATION!! IF YOU DO A WARM BOOT, YOU
MAY DESTROY THE FILE ALLOCATION TABLE ON ONE OF YOUR DISKS!!!
If your hard disk is named drive C:, enter the command:
CLEANUPC
If your hard disk is named drive D:, the command is:
CLEANUPD
This will restore your hard disk to its original condition,
removing all BURN-IN files. Both of these commands have to
be entered with the working disk in drive A: and with the A>
prompt displayed on the screen. To restore the A> prompt,
enter the command: A: <Enter>.
That's all there is to using BURN-IN.
A Plea for Money
BURN-IN is distributed as shareware. It took a lot of time
to create, and I hope that you will feel like contributing
to it's author. You can copy BURN-IN, give it away (in this
form only), but you can't sell it or use it in another
program that you plan to sell. Use it however you like, but
if you like BURN-IN, please send a contribution of $10 to
the address below. I promise to answer any mail I recieve,
and if there is an updated version of BURN-IN available,
I'll send it along when you send me your contribution.
George Campbell
1472 Sixth St.
Los Osos, CA 93402