HP Book 900 Diagnostic Tools, OmniBook Diagnostic Program, Creating a Diagnostic Floppy Disk

Diagnostic Tools

This section describes the following diagnostic tools you can use for troubleshooting and repairing the OmniBook:

∙OmniBook hardware diagnostic program (below).

∙Power-on self-test (page 3-18).

∙Sycard PCCtest 450 PC Card (page 3-21).

∙Desktop Management Interface (page 3-22).

∙BIOS Setup utility (page 3-24).

OmniBook Diagnostic Program

The OmniBook hardware diagnostic program provides two levels of testing:

∙User-level testing using the basic hardware test.

∙Advanced testing using the individual hardware tests.

Figure 3-2. OmniBook Diagnostic Screens — Basic and Advanced

The tests are designed to run after the system reboots. This ensures that the computer will be in a predictable state, so the diagnostic program can properly test the hardware components. The tests are non-destructive and are intended to preserve the state of the computer. The OmniBook reboots when you exit the program so drivers can be loaded.

Creating a Diagnostic Floppy Disk

If you need a diagnostic floppy disk, insert a formatted floppy disk in the floppy drive and do one of the following:

∙Check the \Dmi\Hpdiags directory. If diaginst is in this directory, run it. –or–

If TopTools is installed, check whether the DiagTools page can create the disk.

∙On any computer with World Wide Web access, download the diagnostic software package from the OmniBook website (see page vi), then follow the instructions.

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