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- SYSTEM SPEED TEST Version 4.78
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- 1. LICENSE AGREEMENT.
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- SYSTEM SPEED TEST is FREEWARE, this signifies:
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- You are free to use, copy and distribute the SYSTEM SPEED TEST for
- Noncommercial use if:
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- - No fee is charged for use, copying or distribution.
- - It is not modified in any way.
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- The Author hereby disclaims all warranties relating to this software,
- whether express or implied, including without limitation any implied
- warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. The
- Author will not be liable for any special, incidental, consequential,
- indirect or similar damages due to loss of data or any other reason,
- even if the Author or an agent of the Author has been advised of
- the possibility of such damages. The person using the software bears
- all risk as to the quality and performance of the software.
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- 2. FILES IN THIS PACKAGE.
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- SPEEDSYS.EXE - Test program.
- SPEEDSYS.TXT - This text.
- RUSSIAN.TXT - Russian doc.
- SPEEDSYS.HIS - History of SYSTEM SPEED TEST.
- FILE_ID.DIZ - Short description.
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- 3. FEATURES.
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- Test allows you to detect following parameters:
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- - Type of the processor.
- - Clock rate of processor.
- - Clock rate of processor via Time Stamp Counter.
- - Some information of processor stepping.
- - Size and speed index of memory.
- - Type, manufacturer, part number,some features of DIMM/RIMM memory modules.
- - Display adapter, size of video memory, video memory speeds index.
- - Sizes and speed of data caches.
- - Mainboard model.
- - BIOS vendor and BIOS date.
- - RTC-BIOS Year2000 bug.
- - Processor benchmarks.
- - Build a graph and define seek and access time of hard disk.
- - Build a graph and define an average transfer speed of hard disk.
- - Relative speed of hard disk.
- - Testing of extended memory on errors and malfunction.
- - Build a graph and define functioning of system a caching and memories.
- - Test a quality of surface CD disk.
- - Build a graph and define an average read speed of CD disk.
- - Build a graph and define average time access of CD drive.
- - Relative speed CD drive.
- - PCI/AGP device information.
- - ISA PnP device detection.
- - Save image of screen with testing parameters in PCX file 640*480*16.
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- 4. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS.
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- a) Processor 386+.
- b) VGA-compatible videocard.
- c) 4 MB free XMS memory.
- d) DOS 5.00+.
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- Warning! Test should not work correctly in multitasking environment
- such as Windows, WindowsNT, and other. Not recommended to use test
- with memory menagers like EMM386 or QEMM and programs of caching data.
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- For testing IDE-ATAPI CD drives is recommended to create MS-DOS system
- diskette and copy on it files: mscdex.sys, oakcdrom.sys or asuscd.sys
- and config.sys following contents:
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- DEVICE=OAKCDROM.SYS /D:MSCD001
- INSTALL=MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD001
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- DEVICE=ASUSCD.SYS /D:MSCD001 /DMA
- INSTALL=MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD001
- or
- DEVICE=ASUSCD.SYS /D:MSCD001 /UDMA
- INSTALL=MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD001
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- Load system from this diskette for properly testing.
- You may will also be loaded from Windows'98 repair disk for testing
- IDE or SCSI CD drives.
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- 5. COMMAND LINE PARAMETERS.
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- SPEEDSYS [<HD[drive] or <CD[drive]>] [Tx] [SM] [SP] [PCX:file] [L]
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- drive - 0 or 1, 2, .., 7. Hard drive or CD drive (0 - by default).
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- HD[drive] - System tests and tests of hard disk.
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- SM - Skip test of caching system and memory.
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- SP - Skip PnP device detection.
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- CD[drive] - Test CD drive (disk).
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- L - Loop test of memory.
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- ? - Help.
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- T1 - Quick test HDD or CD drive ( by default).
- For hard drive: Not full test of linear reading, quick testing of
- seek and access time.
- For CD drive: Tested last 37MB surfaces to the most often
- subject to malfunctions.
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- T2 - Full tests of hard drive or CD drive.
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- [PCX:filename] - To create PCX image file of screen.
- Created at the time of output from the program.
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- Examples:
- SPEEDSYS /CD /T2 /PCX:C:\BUFFER\mycdrom.pcx
- SPEEDSYS hd1 pcx:mycomp
- SPEEDSYS hd sm t2
- SPEEDSYS hdt2sm
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- Vladimir Afanasiev
- Home page: http://user.rol.ru/~dxover/speedsys
- E-mail : dxover@email.ru
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