Introduction

This special section of your manual describes how to initialize your Epson® system after it is assembled, and how to test the condition of your computer and peripherals.

To set up and test your system, you use a group of programs called diagnostics on the reference diskette. Depending on the system you purchased, these programs and some of the screen displays may vary. The five main diagnostics programs are:

Setup

Use this program when you first set

up the

 

computer, and each time you make

changes

 

to the system.

 

Format hard disk

Format diskette

Use this program to check or format the entire hard disk after installation.

Use this program to format a diskette for use by the System diagnostics tests. This program is provided for convenience only, so that you can format a diskette without exiting diagnostics.

System

diagnostics

Use these programs whenever you add or

 

 

remove optional devices, or if you suspect

 

 

that the system is defective. You also run

 

 

these diagnostics after moving the system

 

 

from one place to another and after replacing

 

 

the internal battery.

Prepare

hard disk

Use this program before moving the com-

for moving

puter to another

location.

The

reference diskette

also contains these

MS-DOS commands:

EXE2BIN

H D C A C H E

HDSIT

LINK

Converts an executable file to a binary file.

Enhances hard disk performance by storing copies of requested sectors in a cache buffer.

Prepares the hard disk for moving.

Combines several programs into one.

Diagnostics

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