When To Use The System Diagnostics; Running The System Diagnostics; From The Utility Partition; From A Usb Flash Drive - Dell PowerEdge M605 Hardware Owner's Manual

When to Use the System Diagnostics

If a major component or device in the blade does not operate properly,
component failure may be indicated. As long as the microprocessor and the
blade's input/output devices (monitor, keyboard, and diskette drive) are
functioning, you can use the system diagnostics to help identify the problem.

Running the System Diagnostics

The system diagnostics can be run from either the utility partition on your hard
drive or a USB flash drive.
NOTICE:
with other blades may cause invalid results or error messages. In addition, use only
the program that came with your blade (or an updated version of that program).

From the Utility Partition

1 As the blade boots, press <F10> during POST.
2 From the utility partition main menu under Run System Utilities, select
Run System Diagnostics.
NOTE:
If the utility partition has been removed from the drive, download the Dell
PowerEdge Diagnostics from support.dell.com and install the diagnostics to a USB
flash drive, as described in the following section.

From a USB Flash Drive

1 Format the USB flash drive to emulate a hard drive.
See the documentation that came with your USB flash drive for
instructions.
2 Configure the USB flash drive to be a bootable device.
See the documentation that came with your USB flash drive for
instructions. Dell also provides a USB memory key boot utility for
download at support.dell.com.
3 Install DKMS DOS on the USB flash drive.
4 Create a directory for the system diagnostics on the USB flash drive.
5 Copy the system diagnostics files into the directory.
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Running System Diagnostics
Use the system diagnostics to test only your blade. Using this program