Dell Inspiron 4150 - Manual (Page 10)

Diagnostics from your Drivers and Utilities CD.
If the Pre-boot System Assessment completes successfully, you receive the message Booting Dell Diagnostic Utility Partition. Press any key to
continue
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5. Press any key to start the Dell Diagnostics from the Diagnostics utility partition on your hard drive.
6. After the Dell Diagnostics loads, the Diagnostics Menu appears. To select an option, highlight the option and press , or press the key that
corresponds to the highlighted letter in the option you choose.
7. When you have finished running the Dell Diagnostics, press until you return to the Diagnostics Menu. To exit the Dell Diagnostics and reboot the
computer, either type , or highlight Exit and press .
Diagnostics Menu
For a quick check of your computer, select Quick Tests from the Test All Devices or Test One Device option. Quick Tests 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 Quick Tests first to increase the odds of tracing the source
of the problem quickly.
For a thorough check of your computer, select Extended Tests from the Test All Devices option.
To check a particular area of your computer, select Extended Tests from the Test One Device option, or select the Advanced Testing option to customize your
test(s).
Advanced Testing
When you select Advanced Testing from the Diagnostics Menu, the following screen appears, listing the diagnostic test groups and devices of the selected
device group, and the screen allows you to select categories from a menu. Press the arrow keys or to navigate the screen.
Advanced Testing Main Screen
Information in the Advanced Testing screen is presented as follows:
l On the left side of the screen, the Device Groups area lists the diagnostic test groups in the order they will run if you select All from the Run tests
menu category. Press or to highlight a test group.
l On the right side of the screen, the Devices for Highlighted Group area lists the computer's currently detected hardware and some of the relevant
settings.
l Two lines at the bottom of the screen make up the menu area (see " Advanced Testing Help Menu "). The first line lists the categories you can select;
press or to highlight a menu category. The second line gives information about the category currently highlighted.
Advanced Testing Help Menu
For more information on using the Advanced Testing option:
1. Press .
2. Highlight the Help category and press , or press the key that corresponds to the highlighted letter in the category you choose.
Advanced Testing Help Categories
Option Function
Test All Devices Performs extensive diagnostic tests or quick diagnostic tests on all devices.
Test One Device Performs extensive diagnostic tests or quick diagnostic tests on one device after you select it from a list of device groups. After you
select Test One Device, press for more information about a test.
Advanced Testing Allows you to modify the parameters of a test and select a group of tests to perform. You can access online Help for more information
about Advanced Testing.
Information and
Results Provides test results, test errors, version numbers of the subtests used by the Dell Diagnostics, and additional help on the Dell
Diagnostics.
Program Options Allows you to change the settings of the Dell Diagnostics.
Exit If the Dell Diagnostics are being run from the Diagnostics utility partition on the hard drive, reboots the computer.
If the Dell Diagnostics are being run from a CD or floppy disk, exits to the MS-DOS® prompt.
HINT: The test groups reflect the configuration of your computer.
Help
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