Dell Latitude D830 (Early 2007): Starting the Dell Diagnostics From Your Hard Drive

Starting the Dell Diagnostics From Your Hard Drive

The Dell Diagnostics is located on a hidden diagnostic utility partition on your hard drive.

NOTE: If your computer cannot display a screen image, contact Dell (see "Contacting Dell" in your online User’s

Guide for details).

NOTE: If the computer is connected to a docking device (docked), undock it. See the documentation that came

with your docking device for instructions.

1

Ensure that the computer is connected to an electrical outlet that is known to be working properly.

2

Turn on (or restart) your computer.

3

Start the Dell Diagnostics in one of the following two ways:

a

When the DELL™ logo appears, press <F12> immediately. Select Diagnostics from the boot

menu and press <Enter>.

NOTE: If you wait too long and the operating system logo appears, continue to wait until you see the

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Microsoft

Windows

desktop; then, shut down your computer and try again.

NOTE: Before attempting option B, the computer must be powered down completely.

b

Press and hold the <Fn> key while powering the computer on.

NOTE: If you see a message stating that no diagnostics utility partition has been found, run the

Dell Diagnostics from the Drivers and Utilities media.

The computer runs the Pre-boot System Assessment (PSA), a series of initial tests of your system

board, keyboard, display, memory, hard drive, etc.

• During the assessment, answer any questions that appear.

• If failures are detected during the Pre-boot System Assessment, write down the error code(s) and

see "Contacting Dell" in your online

User’s Guide

.

If the Pre-boot System Assessment completes successfully, you will receive the message, "

Booting

Dell Diagnostic Utility Partition.Press any key to continue"

.

4

Press any key to start the Dell Diagnostics from the diagnostics utility partition on your hard drive.

Starting the Dell Diagnostics From the Drivers and Utilities Media

1

Insert the

Drivers and Utilities

media.

2

Shut down and restart the computer.

When the DELL logo appears, press <F12> immediately.

NOTE: If you wait too long and the operating system logo appears, continue to wait until you see the

®

®

Microsoft

Windows

desktop; then, shut down your computer and try again.

NOTE: The next steps change the boot sequence for one time only. On the next start-up, the computer boots

according to the devices specified in the system setup program.

3

When the boot device list appears, highlight

CD/DVD/CD-RW

and press <Enter>.

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