Toshiba A10 Personal Computer User Manual


 
2 Troubleshooting Procedures 2.4 System Board Troubleshooting
To use the printer port LED, follow the steps below:
System Board
PJ3202
Printer Port
LED
1. Turn on the computer’s power and set it to boot mode.
2. Turn off the computer’s power.
3. Plug the printer port LED into the parallel port.
4. While holding down the space bar, turn on the computer’s power.
5. Read the LED status from left to right.
6. Convert the status from binary to hexadecimal notation.
7. If the final LED status is FFh (normal status), go to Procedure 4.
8. If the final LED status matches any of the test status values in Table 2-3, perform
Check 1.
NOTE: If an error condition is detected by the IRT test, the printer port LED displays the
status for the last test item which ended correctly. For example, when the printer port LED
displays 0Ch and halts, the IRT test has already completed the Vector initialization. In this
instance, the IRT indicates an error has been detected during the NDP initialization.
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