Testing The Operation; To Create A Diagnostic Floppy Disk - HP OmniBook XE2 Evaluator Manual

Operating the OmniBook XE2

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.
You can run the OmniBook hardware diagnostic program from the OmniBook
Hibernation partition on the hard disk or from a floppy disk. 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

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 DIAGINST
from the \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 World Wide Web access, download the OmniBook
Hardware Diagnostic software package from the OmniBook website
(http://www.hp.com/omnibook), run this file to unpack the files, then run
DIAGINST to create the diagnostic disk.
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