Using The Diagnostics Cd; Downloading The Diagnostics Program - IBM eServer xSeries 300 User Reference Manual

accessible or have not been successful in isolating a problem suspected to be
hardware related.
An IBM Enhanced Diagnostics CD comes with your server. You can also download
the latest image of the diagnostics from http://www.ibm.com/pc/support on the World
Wide Web.
Note: When using diagnostics with a USB keyboard and mouse attached, go into

Using the diagnostics CD

To start the IBM Enhanced Diagnostics using the CD, do the following:
1. Turn off your server and any peripheral devices.
2. Turn on all attached devices; then, turn on your server.
3. When Press F1 For Configuration/Setup appears, press the F1 key.
4. When the Configuration/Setup Utility menu appears, select Start Options.
5. From the Start Options menu, select Startup Sequence.
6. Note the device selected as the First Startup Device. Later, you must restore this
7. Select CD-ROM as the First Startup Device.
8. Press Esc two times to return to the Configuration/Setup Utility menu.
9. Place the IBM Enhanced Diagnostics CD in the CD-ROM drive.
10. Select Save & Exit Setup and follow the prompts. The diagnostics will load.
Important:
When you finish running the diagnostics, remove the CD from the CD-ROM drive and
turn off the server. You must restore the First Startup Device to the original setting.
Use steps 2 through 8 of this procedure to do this.

Downloading the diagnostics program

Complete the following steps to download the latest image of the IBM Enhanced
Diagnostics from the World Wide Web and create a stretchable Enhanced
Diagnostics diskette:
1. Go to the following World Wide Web site: http://www.ibm.com/pc/support/
2. Download the diagnostics file for your server to a hard disk drive directory (not to
3. Go to a DOS prompt and change to the directory where the file was downloaded.
4. Insert a blank high-density diskette in diskette drive A.
5. Type filename a: where filename is the name of the file you downloaded from the
The downloaded file is self-extracting and will be copied to the diskette. When the
copy completes, you have a startable IBM Enhanced Diagnostics diskette.
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Setup and enable USB emulation.
1. Press F1 Configuration/Setup
2. Select Devices and I/O Ports
3. Select USB Setup
4. Make sure USB Keyboard and Mouse are enabled.
setting.
Follow the instructions on the screen to run the diagnostics.
a diskette).
Web, and press Enter.