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3. When the Setup Utility prompt appears on the screen during start-up, press F1.
The Setup Utility menu will appear.
4. Follow the instructions on the screen.
5. When finished, select System Summary to verify that any configuration
changes have been accepted.
Product Recovery Program menu
Type 2271/6840/6841 machines have recovery and diagnostics programs on a
separate hard drive partition. The Diagnostics diskette is not shipped with the
machine or the HMM. To download the diagnostics program, see “Diagnostics
download” on page 8.
At startup, after the machine tests the SIMM/DIMM memory (if Power-on Self
Test is set to Enhanced), the machine displays the following prompt:
To start the Product Recovery Program, press F11
After depressing F11, you are given the following options.
v Full recovery
This utility reformats the hard drive and restores all original files.
v Partial recovery
This utility reformats the hard drive and restores the Windows operating system
and all device drivers
v Repair
This is the emergency repair utility, and should not be used to install Windows
components.
v System utilities
1. Run diagnostics
2. System info
3. Create recovery/ repair diskette
Diagnostics
The diagnostic programs use a full range of diagnostic utilities to determine the
operating condition of the computer’s hardware components.
For a complete list of error codes and messages, see ″Symptom-to-FRU Index″ on
page 37.
Diagnostics download
To download the diagnostic programs, do the following:
v Go to http://www.ibm.com/.
v Select Support.
v Select Desktop computing from the ″Search by Category″ pull-down menu.
v Select NetVista from the ″Product Family″ list.
v Search for the machine type in the ″Quick Path″ box on the left.
v Select Diagnostics from the ″Downloadable files by Category″ pull-down menu
or go directly to the link PC Enhanced Diagnostics diskette from the
″Downloadable files by date″ list. This link will take you to the self-starting
utility download and instructions.
8 Hardware Maintenance Manual A40 Type 6840 A40P Type 6841 A40i Type 2271: IBM NetVista Computer