User manual
Preventive Maintenance
5-54 ProMaster 2500 User Manual
4. Press
F1
. If you are prompted to select a new terminal type, press
↵
to
accept the default.
5. Select
M
(More Commands) and
S
(Self-test) to get to the Self-test
screen.
6. Select the One Pass mode to perform all the displayed tests once.
7. Move the cursor to the Test Mode field and press
S
PACE
. You may
stop the test by pressing
C
TRL
+
Z
. There may be a delay before the
system responds to the C
TRL
-Z if you are testing system RAM.
CAUTION: Executing the System RAM test or the User RAM test erases
all data in RAM.
8. To test all hardware, move the cursor to the
Perform All Tests
prompt and press
↵
. To test a particular item, move the cursor to the
desired test and press
↵
.
One of the following four characters will appear next to each test to
indicate the status of that test:
? Untested
Pass
Fail
_ Not Installed
When testing begins, a question mark (
?
) appears next to the untested
areas. As each test completes, either
PASS
or
FAIL
appears next to the
test name to show the results of that test. The “
?
” may be displayed on
some tests if the programming electronics has failed an earlier test. In this
case the “
?
” means that this item was not tested and will not run until the
earlier failure has been corrected.
Note: When you abort a test, a status of
????
is displayed, and if you try to run
TaskLink, the message
Programming hardware has not passed
self test
is displayed.
A hyphen (–) indicates that an item is not installed on your ProMaster
2500 system.
While a test is being performed, a rotating action symbol and a status
message are displayed in the upper, left corner of the TaskLink screen.
Tests are performed in the following order:
1.
Calibration of the supplies
(on the controller/waveform board)
2.
Pin control unit test
(on the controller/waveform board)
3.
EPROM
(on the controller/waveform board)
4.
Serial ports
(on the controller/waveform board)
5.
System RAM
(on the controller/waveform board)
6.
User RAM
(on the controller/waveform board)
7.
Disk drive
8.
Programming module/relays
(on the pin driver boards)










