IBM x Series 200 manual Starting the diagnostic programs, Using the diagnostics CD

Starting the diagnostic programs

The IBM Enhanced Diagnostics programs will isolate your server hardware from software that you have installed on your hard disk drive. The programs run independently of the operating system, and must be run either from the CD or diskette. This method of testing is generally used when other methods are not accessible or have not been successful in isolating a problem suspected to be hardware related.

An IBM Enhanced Diagnostics CD comes with the server. You can also download the latest image of the diagnostics from the World Wide Web at http://www.ibm.com/pc/support.

Using the diagnostics CD

To start the IBM Enhanced Diagnostics using the CD, do the following:

1.Turn off your server and any peripheral devices.

2.Turn on all attached devices; then, turn your server on.

3.When you see Press F1 For Configuration/Setup, press the F1 key.

4.When the Configuration/Setup Utility menu appears, select Start Options.

5.From the Start Options menu, select Startup Sequence.

6.Note the device selected as the First Startup Device. Later, you must restore this setting.

7.Select CD-ROMas the First Startup Device.

8.Press Esc two times to return to the Configuration/Setup Utility menu.

9.Place the IBM Enhanced Diagnostics CD in the CD-ROM drive.

10.Select Save & Exit Setup and follow the prompts. The diagnostics will load. Follow the instructions on the screen to run the diagnostics.

Important

When you finish running the diagnostics and utilities, remove the CD from the CD-ROM drive and turn off the server. You must restore the First Startup Device to the original setting. Use steps 2 through 8 of this procedure to do this.

Downloading the diagnostics program

Do the following to download the latest image of the IBM Enhanced Diagnostics from the World Wide Web and create a startable Enhanced Diagnostics diskette:

1.Go to the following World Wide Web site: http://www.ibm.com/pc/support/

2.Download the diagnostics file for your server to a hard disk drive directory (not to a diskette).

3.Go to a DOS prompt and change to the directory where the file was downloaded.

4.Insert a blank high-density diskette in diskette drive A.

5.Type in the following, and then press Enter: filename a:

where filename is the name of the file you downloaded from the Web.

The downloaded file is self-extracting and will be copied to the diskette. When the copy completes, you have a startable IBM Enhanced Diagnostics diskette.

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