Toshiba Satellite A500 Service Manual page 75

3 Diagnostic Programs
Before running the diagnostic programs, get the following tools prepared:
A Service Diagnostic BOOT CD
A Formatted FLOPPY DISK
A Test Media CD (A-BEX TEST CD-ROM TCDR-702)(for CD-ROM test)
A Test Media DVD (Toshiba-EMI DVD-ROM TEST DISK TSD-1)
An External Monitor (for DISPLAY test)
A CD-ROM Driver (for CD-ROM test)
Audio Line for audio record test
A Data CD (for CD-ROM test)
The following chapters describe all the test details. The test items could be selected from the
DIAGNOSTIC TEST menu.
Note:
When booting up the unit for the first time, the system will automatically select the location
of the result log file. If a USB floppy drive is connected, and there is an unprotected floppy
diskette with more then 50KB spare space in the drive, system will save all log files into the
root directory the diskette; otherwise, system will save all log files in the root directory of
RAM disk.
Satellite A500 Maintenance Manual
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3.1 General