Texas Instruments EXTENSA 570CD - Manual (Page 79)

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PC-Doctor Diagnostics
B.1 Introduction
The Extensa Series Notebooks are shipped with PC-Doctor, a powerful diagnostics
tool that can help you determine the hardware configuration of a local or remote
system, benchmark its performance, analyze the performance of all subsystems,
and perform a suite of interactive and non-interactive tests on attached devices
(such as printers, joystick devices, SVGA monitors, SCSI devices, CD-ROM drives).
The test results are stored in a log which can be printed out (by pressing F2) or
saved in a disk file (by pressing F3).
Features of the diagnostic program are accessed through a series of pull-down
menus and basic keyboard keys (cursor keys to move highlighted pointer, Enter key
to select a highlighted feature, Esc key to cancel a function and move back one
level.)
PC-Doctor is typically user friendly but if you don’t understand a feature,
context-sensitive "help" information is available at any time by pressing the F1
function key; pressing the F1 function key twice accesses the online Technical
Reference Manual for PC-Doctor.
A powerful set of utilities within PC-Doctor (that can be run locally or remotely)
simplify the task of determining system configuration data, allocating and using
system memory, IRQ and DMA use, what device drivers are installed, what COM
and LPT ports are assigned and what ports are available, identifying partitioning
data for fixed disk drive(s), determining the VGA setup information, reading the
software interrupts/interrupt vectors, etc.
B.2 Starting PC-Doctor
PC-Doctor comes pre-installed on your Extensa Series Notebook Computer. To run
the utility, reboot your computer.
The system continues the boot process and automatically displays the PC-Doctor
Diagnostics main menu.
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