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Starting the diagnostic programs
You can press F1 while running the diagnostic programs to obtain help information.
You also can press F1 from within a help screen to obtain online documentation
from which you can select different categories. To exit from help and return to
where you left off, press Esc.
Note: In a 16-way configuration (models 1VX, 2VX, 3VX only), diagnostics are run
Complete the following steps to start the diagnostic programs:
1. Turn on the server and watch the screen; then, continue with step 2 for 16-way
2. For 16-way configuration (models 1VX, 2VX, 3VX only): When the message
3. When the message F2 for Diagnostics appears, press F2.
4. When the Diagnostic Programs screen appears, select either Extended or
5. Select the test you want to run from the list that appears; then, follow the
on the server to which the keyboard, mouse and video are attached. To run
diagnostics on the second server, the second server must be connected to a
keyboard, video and mouse.
configuration (models 1VX, 2VX, 3VX only), or with step 3 for all other models.
Note: For 16-way configuration (models 1VX, 2VX, 3VX only), turn on both
servers and watch the screen.
Press ESC to bypass partition merge and boot standalone appears, press
ESC; then continue with step 3.
If a power-on password is set, the server prompts you for it. Type the power-on
password, and press Enter.
Note: For 16-way configuration (models 1VX, 2VX, 3VX only), you must
connect a pointing device, keyboard, and monitor to the secondary
server in order to run diagnostic programs on that server. The procedure
for starting diagnostics is the same for both servers and the merge
process can be stopped from either the primary or secondary servers.
Basic from the top of the screen.
instructions on the screen.
Notes:
a. If the server stops during testing and you cannot continue, restart the server
and try running the diagnostic programs again. If the problem persists,
replace the component that was being tested when the server stopped.
b. The keyboard and mouse (pointing device) tests assume that a keyboard
and mouse are attached to the server.
c. If you run the diagnostic programs with no mouse attached to the server,
you will not be able to navigate between test categories using the Next Cat
and Prev Cat buttons. All other functions provided by mouse-selectable
buttons are also available using the function keys.
d. You can test the USB keyboard by using the regular keyboard test. The
regular mouse test can test a USB mouse. Also, you can run the USB
interface test only if there are no USB devices attached.
e. You can view server configuration information (such as system configuration,
memory contents, interrupt request (IRQ) use, direct memory access (DMA)
use, device drivers, and so on) by selecting Hardware Info from the top of
the screen.
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