Diagnosing System Problems With Houston; General; Houston Main Menu - GE Medical Systems Solar 9500 Service Manual

Diagnosing System Problems with Houston

General

Houston Main Menu

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Troubleshooting: Diagnosing System Problems with Houston
If a Solar 9500 cannot fully boot or has encountered a major system
failure from which it cannot recover, it displays the fail-safe service-mode
application called "Houston". Houston provides several system
maintenance functions to help with diagnosing system problems.
Although it does not provide a complete set of tools, it can display much
of the common data needed when investigating major system errors.
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A keyboard and mouse must be connected to the Solar 9500 in order
to use Houston. If a keyboard and mouse are not connected, turn the
Solar 9500's power off and wait for it to shutdown. Plug in a
keyboard and mouse, then turn the Solar 9500 on. The keyboard may
now be used to operate Houston.
The top area of the Houston display consists of:
A numbered list of menu items.
A prompt (Command?) where all keyboard input displays.
A display of the time at which the last command executed.
A display of the current date (month.day) and time (hh:mm:ss) which
updates every 15 seconds.
The rest of the area of the display is devoted to showing the output from
executed menu items.
A menu item is executed by typing in either its number, its highlighted
letter, or its full name, and then pressing the Enter key. As the menu
item is being executed, the command prompt is replaced with
"---- working". When the item is finished running, its output is displayed.
If the output is longer than can be fully displayed on the screen, it is
displayed one page at a time.
Pressing the Enter key executes the previously run command. However,
after a menu item is run, the previously executed command is set to "+"
(see "Navigating Multi-page Output"
Solar 9500 Information Monitor
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