Testing The Operation; To Create A Diagnostic Floppy Disk - HP OmniBook Sojourn User Manual

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.
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.
• On any computer with a CD-ROM drive, run diaginst from the
\Omnibook\Dmi\Hpdiags directory on the OmniBook Recovery CD.
• On any computer with World Wide Web access, download the 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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