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Appendix C

Performing System Diagnostics

This appendix describes how to check the operation of the main
unit and peripheral devices of your Equity 386SX. You check

these devices using the diagnostics program on your Reference

diskette.

Run the diagnostics program if you are not sure whether a
device is performing correctly. The table at the end of this

appendix lists the error messages you may see during testing.

You can test the following devices, each of which is identified
by specific reference numbers:

1 - System board

2

- M e m o r y

3 - Keyboard
4 - Monochrome display adapter and CRT

5 - Color graphics adapter and CRT
6 - Diskette drives and controller

7 - Math coprocessor

9 - Parallel port (printer interface)

11 - Serial port (RS-232C port)
12 - Alternate serial port
14 - Dot-matrix printer

17 - Hard disk drives and controller

21 - Alternate parallel port

81 - Parallel port (on video adapter)

Performing System

Diagnostics

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