Looking for a solution to keep a computer active for a length of time

[McKealty]

I'm troubleshooting a user's computer.  BSOD, used Blue Screen View to see the ntoskrnl.exe was causing it, which 99% of the time means the BIOS needs a good update.  Which was right there at the manufacturer's website waiting to be installed.

With blue screens, though, it's tough to tell if it's been fixed.  I want the machine to run overnight and "be active".

While not necessarily looking for a stress test, is there anything like this folks use in the cleaning world?

[Shane]

I dont know of any program that can do that, but a bat file trick might work

First you need to make sure sleep and hibernation are turned off.

Then you can create a bat file with a loop that starts and waits for defrag to finish, and you can just have it loop over doing a defrag until you kill the cmd.exe window.

That way you will force the drive to be used and some cpu and memory without stressing out the system.

Of course maybe defrag isnt the best idea since if the computer does blue screen while it is moving a file it can corrupt that file.

But you get the idea, a loop in a bat file and having it do some commands on the system could do the trick

Shane

[McKealty]

Perfect!

Thank you!

[Shane]

Did you post again?

I got an email showing you made a post but there isnt anything here

Shane