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Chapter 4

Performing System Diagnostics

This chapter describes how to check the operation of the main unit and

peripheral devices of your system. You check these devices using System

diagnostics, option

4

on the OPERATION

MENU.

Always run diagnostics after adding or removing optional devices, or if

you are unsure whether a device is performing correctly. You should also run

these tests after moving your computer from one place to another, and after
you replace the internal battery.

Note:

To run System diagnostics, boot your system with the reference disk-

ette in drive A. Then select option 4 from the OPERATION
MENU. If you start this program in any other way, some tests may
produce strange results.

You can test these devices; the program identifies each one with a spe-

cific reference number:

1 - System

2 - Memory

3 - Keyboard
4 - Monochrome display adapter and CRT

5 - Color graphics adapter and CRT

6 - Floppy disk drives and controller

7 - Math coprocessor (80287)

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)

Appendix A lists the error messages that may occur when testing these

devices.

Diagnostics

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