Ide Tests; Figure 8-6 Start Notifier - Silicon Graphics OCTANE2 Owner's Manual

Chapter 8: Troubleshooting
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IDE Tests

The Interactive Diagnostic Environment (IDE) tests are more comprehensive than the
confidence tests, and run longer (up to 30-45 minutes). To perform these tests, follow
these steps:
1. Turn off your workstation, wait a few seconds, then turn it on again.
After a while, the Start notifier appears, as shown in Figure 8-6.
Figure 8-6 Start Notifier
2. Click Stop for Maintenance in the
The System Maintenance menu appears.
3. Choose
Run Diagnostics
You can stop the tests at any time by pressing
Tip:
If you cannot access the System Maintenance menu, your system is faulty. If
Note:
you cannot run the diagnostics, you may have a faulty disk drive or other problem.
Contact your local authorized SGI service provider.
At the end of the tests a message appears that displays the test results.
4. Press and then
Enter
your system.
System Startup
in the System Maintenance menu or type
to return to the System Maintenance menu, then restart
Esc
notifier, or press .
Esc
3
.
Esc
.