Advanced Diagnostic Routines - IBM RT PC 10 Hardware Maintenance And Service

Advanced Diagnostic Routines
The Advanced Diagnostic Routines options allow the service technician to
perform tests on the system unit that require special action such as installing
wrap plugs or keying certain responses. The
Problem Isolation Charts
(PICs)
use the Advanced Diagnostic Routines to perform the additional tests and
repair checkouts.
The Advanced Diagnostic Routines run more extensive tests on the adapters
that can be tested with wrap plugs than the Diagnostic Routines. If the
configuration record on the fixed disk does not match the installed features
list, the program displays the TEST OPTION or the DIAGNOSTIC TEST
LIST menu.
When an option is listed in the configuration record, but is not sensed by the
Loadable POST programs, the TEST OPTION menu displays. This menu
indicates that either the option has been removed from the system or the
option is failing.
When the Loadable POST programs sense an option that is not in the
configuration record, the DIAGNOSTIC TEST LIST menu displays. This
menu indicates an option has been added to the system. When an option is
deleted from the DIAGNOSTIC TEST LIST menu, that option is not tested
until added to the list using the Show and Change Diagnostic Test List
Utility.
To run the Advanced Diagnostic Routines:
1.
Press Enter after reading the DIAGNOSTIC OPERATING
INSTRUCTIONS.
2. Choose Advanced Diagnostic Routines on the FUNCTION
SELECTION menu.
3. Choose a checkout option on the ADVANCED DIAGNOSTIC
SELECTION menu. An
*
(asterisk) by the ID number indicates that
the test has been run.
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