WHQL Precertification
VeriTest provides a full range of certification pretesting for hardware manufacturers seeking the "Designed for Windows" logo on the Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows ME, or Windows XP platforms.
VeriTest's unique relationship with Microsoft and our experience turning failing products into passing products makes VeriTest the go-to lab for WHQL pre-certification testing and final certification testing.
Benefits
The benefits of getting your product certified as "Designed for Windows" through the Windows Hardware Quality Labs are more compelling than ever:
- Microsoft will add your passing device to their Hardware Compatibility List and include it in their Windows catalog
- Microsoft will include your passing driver on the Windows Update site for automatic download as required
- Consumers can purchase your product with confidence and won't see an alarming warning when installing your product
As the sole authorized testing lab for several major Microsoft certification programs, VeriTest is uniquely positioned to help OEMs and IHVs, prepare for and acquire Microsoft's '"Designed for Windows,"' WHQL logo as quickly as possible. Our experience and our thorough knowledge of on-going errata enable us to troubleshoot failures and suggest alternatives to help your products achieve certification. Outsourcing your WHQL testing to Veritest can speed your product's time to market.
How the process works
- You supply devices and drivers to VeriTest.
- VeriTest staff provides the test environment, installs your device(s), runs the latest version of the Hardware Compatibility Test for the selected OS, and creates log files.
- VeriTest staff analyzes the log files and other test results and immediately delivers results to you.
- Drawing on our experience, VeriTest advises you on defect resolution issues.
- VeriTest helps you communicate with Microsoft WHQL to clarify issues and exceptions.
Devices we test
| Audio |
Audio adapters, global effects filters, software synthesizers |
| Bus controllers |
CardBus/PCMCIA controllers, IEEE 1394 controllers, infrared (IrDA) controllers, multi-port serial adapters, USB controllers, USB hubs |
| Display |
Monitors, display adapters/chipsets |
| Driver quality |
Anti-virus/file system filter drivers |
| Imaging |
Printers, scanners, cameras, all-in-ones |
| Input and HID |
Keyboards, pointing and drawing devices, game devices, keyboard-video-mouse switch, smart card readers |
| Modems |
Analog modem, wireless modem, ISDN modem |
| Network devices |
LAN devices, cable modem, DSL devices, ATM devices, WAN devices, NDIS intermediate drivers, systems area network (Winsock Direct) |
| Storage controllers and devices |
CD/DVD drives, recordable CD/DVD drives, tape drives, hard disk drives, removable media drives, cluster devices, RAID JBOD devices, RAID controllers, ATA/ATAPI controllers, fibre channel controllers, SCSI controllers, media changer devices, other storage, RAID systems |
| Streaming media and broadcast |
DVD playback, video capture, DirectX VA compliant DVD playback |
| Systems |
Desktop systems, mobile systems, supported client systems, servers, datacenter servers, cluster servers, motherboards, systems using logo'd motherboards |
| Bluetooth |
Device controllers, Bluetooth enabled devices |
| Unclassified |
Universal |
To learn more about WHQL Precertification Services at VeriTest, please request more information.