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- BURN-IN
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- User's Manual
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- By
- George Campbell
- 1472 Sixth St.
- Los Osos, CA 93402
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- 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.
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- What BURN-IN does.
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- It exercises the following components:
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- 1. Disk drives
- 2. CPU
- 3. Monitor
- 4. Display adapter
- 5. RAM memory.
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- 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.
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- Setting Up a BURN-IN Working Disk
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- 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:
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- 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:
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- 2. Enter the command: SETUP
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- 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.
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- 4. If your system has one floppy disk, and a hard disk
- called drive D:, follow the instructions in step 3, but
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- enter the command: HDDSETUP. Follow the screen
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- 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.
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- Running BURN-IN
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- 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
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- You will see an opening screen. Follow the instructions
- shown on the screen.
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- 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.
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- Choose the appropriate system configuration from the menu.
- Press the number of your selection, then press <Enter>.
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- 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.
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- The cycle will repeat endlessly until you decide to quit.
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- Exiting from BURN-IN
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- 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.
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- BURN-IN will exit at the end of the current routine.
- your system's confifuration.
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- 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!!!
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- If your hard disk is named drive C:, enter the command:
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- CLEANUPC
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- If your hard disk is named drive D:, the command is:
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- CLEANUPD
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- 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>.
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- That's all there is to using BURN-IN.
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- A Plea for Money
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- 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.
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- George Campbell
- 1472 Sixth St.
- Los Osos, CA 93402
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