Personal Computer User Manual

•Usingthecursormovementkeys,highlightRunNormalTestorRunQuickTestfromtheDiagnostics
menuandthenpressEnter.Thisautomaticallyrunsapre-denedgroupoftestsfromeachtestcategory.
RunNormalTestrunsamoreextensivesetofteststhandoesRunQuickTestandtakeslongerto
complete.
•PressF5toautomaticallyrunallselectedtestsinallcategories.
•Fromwithinatestcategory,pressCtrl-Entertoautomaticallyrunonlytheselectedtestsinthatcategory.
•Usingthecursormovementkeys,highlightasingletestwithinatestcategory,andthenpressEnter.
Thisrunsonlythattest.
PressEscatanytimetostopthetestingprocess.
Testresults(N/A,PASSED,FAILED,ABORTED)aredisplayedintheeldbesidethetestdescriptionandin
thetestlog.See“Viewingthetestlog”onpage52.
Toselectoneormoretests,usethefollowingprocedure.
1.Openthecorrespondingtestcategory.
2.Usingthecursormovementkeys,highlightthedesiredtest.
3.Pressthespacebar.Aselectedtestismarkedby>>.Pressingthespacebaragainde-selectsatest
andremovesthe>>.
4.Repeatsteps2and3abovetoselectalldesiredtests.
Testresults
Diagnosticstestresultsproducethefollowingerrorcodeformat:
FunctionCode
FailureTypeDeviceIDDate
ChkDigits
Text
•FunctionCode:
RepresentsthefeatureorfunctionwithinthePC.
•FailureType:
Representsthetypeoferrorencountered.
•DeviceID:
Containsthecomponent'sunit-IDthatcorrespondstoeitheraxeddiskdrive,removablemediadrive,
serialorparallelport,processor,specicRIMM,oradeviceonthePCIbus.
•Date:
Containsthedatewhenthediagnostictestwasrun.ThedateisretrievedfromCMOSanddisplayed
usingtheYYYYMMDDformat.
•ChkDigits:
Containsa2-digitcheck-digitvaluetoensurethefollowing:
–Diagnosticswererunonthespecieddate.
–Diagnosticswererunonthespeciedcomputer.
–Thediagnosticerrorcodeisrecordedcorrectly.
•Text:
Descriptionoftheerror.
Note:See“Diagnosticerrorcodes”onpage58
forerrorcodelistings.
QuickandFullerase-harddrive
Thediagnosticsprogramofferstwoharddriveformatutilities:
•QuickEraseHardDrive
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