Diagnostic Tools; Omnibook Diagnostic Program; Figure 3-2. Omnibook Diagnostic Screens - Basic And Advanced - HP OmniBook 3000 Service Manual

Diagnostic Tools

This section describes the following diagnostic tools you can use for troubleshooting and repairing the
OmniBook:
• OmniBook hardware diagnostic program (page 3-10).
• Power-on self-test (page 3-15).
• Sycard PCCtest 450 PC Card (page 3-17).
• Desktop Management Interface (page 3-18).
• BIOS Setup utility (page 3-20).

OmniBook Diagnostic Program

The OmniBook hardware diagnostic program provides two levels of testing:
• User-level testing using the basic hardware test.
• Advanced testing using the individual hardware tests.
Figure 3-2. OmniBook Diagnostic Screens — Basic and Advanced
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.
Creating a Diagnostic Disk
After inserting a formatted floppy disk in the floppy drive, do one of the following to create a diagnostic
floppy disk:
• On a factory software installation, run diaginst from the \Dmi\Hpdiags directory on the hard disk.
• On any computer, run diaginst from the \Omnibook\Dmi\Hpdiags directory on the
OmniBook 3000 Recovery CD.
• On any computer, download the diagnostic software package from the OmniBook website (see page
vi), run this file to unpack the files, then run diaginst a: to create the diagnostic disk.
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