Testing The Operation; To Create A Diagnostic Floppy Disk - HP OmniBook 4100 Reference Manual

Troubleshooting

Testing the Operation

Testing the Operation
The OmniBook hardware diagnostic program provides two levels of testing:
• Automated testing using the basic hardware test.
• Advanced testing using the individual hardware tests.
The tests are designed to run after the system reboots. This ensures that the computer
will be in a predictable state, so the diagnostic program can properly test the
hardware components. The tests are non-destructive and are intended to preserve
the state of the computer. The OmniBook reboots when you exit the program so
drivers can be loaded.

To create a diagnostic floppy disk

You do not have to create a diagnostic floppy disk if you reboot from the Recovery
CD and choose the OmniBook diagnostics option.
After inserting a formatted floppy disk in the floppy drive, do one of the following to
create a diagnostic floppy disk:
• On an OmniBook with a factory software installation, run
\Dmi\Hpdiags directory on the hard disk.
–or–
If HP TopTools is installed, use the DiagTools page to create the disk.
• On any computer with a CD-ROM drive, run
\Omnibook\Dmi\Hpdiags directory on the OmniBook 4100 Recovery CD.
• On any computer with World Wide Web access, download the diagnostic
software package from the OmniBook website (http://www.hp.com/omnibook),
run this file to unpack the files, then run
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to create the diagnostic disk.