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Dell Diagnostics: Dell OptiPlex GX1 Small-Form-Factor System User's Guide

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The Key-Help category in the Subtest menu displays a list of key controls available.

Quit Menu Under Subtest

The Quit Menu category in the Subtest menu returns you to the

Main

menu.

Options

Table 1 lists all of the possible values for each global parameter of Options. A brief description of each
parameter follows the table. To change Options parameters, press the spacebar, the left- and right- arrow
keys, or the plus (+) and minus (-) keys.

Table 1. Option Parameters

Option Limit

Possible Values

Number of Times to Repeat Test(s)

0001 through 9999, or 0000, which loops indefinitely until you
press the and keys. The default is 1.

Maximum Errors Allowed

0000 through 9999, where 0000 means that there is no error limit.
The default is 1.

Pause For User Response

Yes, No
Allows you to decide whether tests will wait for user input.
The default is Yes to wait for user input.

Output Device for Status Messages

Display, Printer, File
If you have a printer attached to your computer, you can use it to
print the status messages, if any, that are generated when a test
runs. (The printer must be turned on and in the online mode to
print.) If you select File, the messages are printed to a file named
result on a diskette that you insert into drive A when prompted. If
you are running the diagnostics from a utility partition on your
hard-disk drive, the result file is created on the hard-disk drive.
The default is Display.

Output Device for Error Messages

Display, Printer, File
This parameter has the same effect as the Output Device for
Status Messages
parameter, except that it pertains only to error
messages. The default is Display.

Number of Times to Repeat Test(s)

This parameter specifies the number of times the tests run when you select Run. To change the
default, type in the desired value. If you type 0 (zero), the tests will run indefinitely.

Maximum Errors Allowed

This parameter specifies the maximum number of errors that can occur before testing is stopped. The
error count begins from zero each time you run a subtest or test group individually or each time you
select All to run all of them. To change the default, type in the desired value. If you type 0 (zero), you