Starting The Dell Diagnostics From Your Hard Drive; Starting The Dell Diagnostics From The Drivers And Utilities Disc - Dell Precision NX046 User Manual

Start the Dell Diagnostics from either your hard drive or from the Drivers and
Utilities disc.

Starting the Dell Diagnostics From Your Hard Drive

1 Turn on (or restart) your computer.
2 When the DELL™ logo appears, press <F12> immediately.
NOTE:
If you see a message stating that no diagnostics utility partition has been
found, run the Dell Diagnostics from your Drivers and Utilities disc. See "Starting the
Dell Diagnostics From the Drivers and Utilities Disc" on page 137.
If you wait too long and the operating system logo appears, continue to
wait until you see the Microsoft
your computer (see "Turning Off Your Computer" on page 151), and try
again.
3 When the boot device list appears, highlight Boot to Utility Partition and
press <Enter>.
4 When the Dell Diagnostics Main Menu appears (see "Dell Diagnostics
Main Menu" on page 138), select the test that you want to run.

Starting the Dell Diagnostics From the Drivers and Utilities Disc

1 Insert the Drivers and Utilities disc.
2 Shut down and restart the computer.
When the DELL logo appears, press <F12> immediately.
If you wait too long and the Windows logo appears, continue to wait until
you see the Windows desktop. Then shut down your computer and try
again.
NOTE:
next start-up, the computer boots according to the devices specified in the
system setup program.
3 When the boot device list appears, highlight Onboard or USB CD-ROM
Drive and press <Enter>.
4 Select the Boot from CD-ROM option from the menu that appears and
press <Enter>.
5 Type 1 to start the menu and press <Enter> to proceed.
The next steps change the boot sequence for one time only. On the
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Windows desktop. Then shut down
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