Re: To run Task Manager means they booted Windows. To boot Windows means everything, with the possible exceptions of floating point and virtualization, is working. So try again.
You have got to be kidding. Or ignorant of the validation process, I'm not sure which.
It doesn't take much at all to boot Windows. This is considered a pre-requisit before actual validation even begins. Try multi-core and multi-socket concurrency with fully loaded memory and I/O running billions of patterns for days on end. And that's just logic verification. Then you have to test all the circuits, heat and thermals, speed paths, marginality, fast/slow corners, etc. I guess you have no idea.
I guess a better demo would involve some server type application, like Java or Web server, or even SAP. Even running a simple Monte Carlo analysis would have been something. Task Manager tells you bumpkiss.
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