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Epson Equity 286 PLUS User Manual

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System diagnostic tests (continued)

Component Tests

Hard disk

Hard disk format

drives

Media analysis
Performance

Seek

Read/verify

Check test cylinder

Force bad tracks

Function

See “Hard Disk Diagnostics”

Floppy disk

Diskette format

See “floppy Disk

drives

Drive speed

Diagnostics’

Random read/write
Sequential read/write
Disk change line

Keyboard

Video

Controller

Scan/ASCII code

Keyboard clock line

Keyboard data line

Adapter

Attribute

80 x 25 display

40 x 25 display*

320 x 200 graphics*

640 x 200 graphics*

Page selection’

Color

l

Tests the keyboard controller

Tests the scan codes
assigned to the keys (see

“Keyboard Scan/ASCII
Codes”)

Tests the keyboard clock line

Tests the keyboard data line

Tests the display adapter

memory

Tests the display adapter

attributes

Tests the 80 x 25 display

Tests the 40 x 25 display

Tests the 320 x 200 graphics

display

Tests the 640 x 200 graphics

display

Tests the paging function of
the adapter

Tests the background and

border color mapping

Test appears only if you have installed a color monitor.

Perfming System Diagnostics

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