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B.5.5 – Texas Instruments EXTENSA 570CD User Manual

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IRQ and DMA use - identifies interrupts for all standard IRQ and DMA devices

Device Drivers - shows all essential data on DOS resident and installable device
drivers

COM and LPT ports - displays information about the installed serial and
parallel ports. Only ports that are identified by BIOS are listed

Physical Disk Drives - shows the basic characteristics for each installed fixed
disk drive including the contents of partition tables

Logical Disk Drives - displays information about each drive that is available
and has a disk in it. If Stacker or DoubleSpace disk compression software has
been installed, details about each "stacked" or "doubled" drive is shown

VGA Information - identifies the type of installed VGA chip

Software Interrupts - displays software interrupt vectors and the area of
memory they point to

SCSI Devices - lists information about SCSI devices and interface cards if a
CAM or ASPI compliant SCSI device driver is present

B.5.5

Utility Menu

PC-Doctor has a dedicated menu for utility functions. These functions include:

Run External Tests - runs other programs from PC-Doctor

Edit CMOS RAM - gives access to CMOS RAM data

File Editor - allows editing of configuration files

Surface Scan Hard Disk - checks for defects on the hard disk

Benchmark System - measures system performance

DOS Shell - opens a DOS prompt from within PC-Doctor

Terminal - gives access to devices connected to a serial port (such as a modem)

Memory Debugger - displays memory contents in either hexadecimal, decimal,
or ASCII form

Remote Operation - enables remote control if available

Tech Support Form - allows you to collect information about the current
system

Battery Rundown - quickly deep-discharges the NiMh battery of a laptop
computer.

PC-Doctor Diagnostics B-5