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5-2 Dell PowerEdge 4100/180 and 4100/200 Systems Installation and Troubleshooting Guide
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tarting the System Diagnostics
The system diagnostics is run directly from the Dell Server
Assistant CD. See Chapter 2, “Using the Dell Server
Assistant CD” in the system User’s Guide for information
on running the CD.
Follow these steps to run the diagnostics from the Dell
Server Assistant CD:
1. Turn on the computer.
2. Boot the system from the Dell Server Assistant
CD.
If the system fails to boot, see Chapter 11, “Getting
Help,” for instructions on obtaining technical
assistance.
3. From the Main Menu, select the
RUN SYSTEM
DIAGNOSTICS
option from the
RUN SYSTEM UTILI-
TIES
category.
NOTE: Before you read the rest of this chapter, you may
want to start the system diagnostics so you can see it on
the screen of the monitor.
When you start the diagnostics, the Dell logo screen
appears, followed by a message telling you that the diag-
nostics is loading. Before the diagnostics loads into
memory, a program tests the random-access memory
(RAM) that will be used by the diagnostics.
If no errors are found in RAM, the diagnostics loads, and
the Diagnostics Menu appears (see Figure 5-1). The
menu allows you to run all or specific diagnostic tests or
to exit to the Dell Server Assistant CD main menu.
For a quick check of the system, select the
RUN QUICK
TESTS
option. This option runs only the subtests that do
not require user interaction and that do not take a long
time to run. Dell recommends that you choose this option
first to increase the odds of tracing the source of the prob-
lem quickly. For a complete check of the system, select
the
RUN ALL TESTS
option. To check a particular area of
the system, select the
RUN SPECIFIC TESTS
option.
To select an option from this menu, highlight the option
and press <
ENTER
>, or press the key that corresponds to
the highlighted letter in the option you choose.
Figure 5-1. Diagnostics Menu
Dell Computer Corporation
PowerEdge 4100 Diagnostics Version X.XX
Run All Tests
RUn Quick Tests
RuN Specific Tests
Exit To MS-DOS
DIAGNOSTICS MENU