Dell Latitude X1: Starting the Dell Diagnostics From Your Hard Drive Starting the Dell Diagnostics From the Optional Drivers and Utilities CD
Starting the Dell Diagnostics From Your Hard Drive Starting the Dell Diagnostics From the Optional Drivers and Utilities CD: Dell Latitude X1
Table of contents
- Quick Reference Guide
- Notes, Notices, and Cautions Abbreviations and Acronyms
- Contents
- Finding Information What Are You Looking For? Find It Here
- What Are You Looking For? Find It Here
- What Are You Looking For? Find It Here
- What Are You Looking For? Find It Here Setting Up Your Computer
- 4 Open the computer display and press the power button to turn on the computer.
- About Your Computer Front View
- Left View Right View Back View
- Bottom View Using a Battery Battery Performance
- Checking the Battery Charge
- Charge Gauge
- Health Gauge Low-Battery Warning Charging the Battery
- Removing a Battery Installing a Battery
- Storing a Battery Solving Problems Notebook System Software (NSS) Lockups and Software Problems
- A program stops responding A program crashes repeatedly A program is designed for an earlier Microsoft Windows operating system A solid blue screen appears
- Other software problems Using the Dell Diagnostics When to Use the Dell Diagnostics
- Starting the Dell Diagnostics From Your Hard Drive Starting the Dell Diagnostics From the Optional Drivers and Utilities CD
- Dell Diagnostics Main Menu Option Function Tab Function
- Tab Function
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.
1
Shut down the computer.
2
Turn on the computer. When the DELL™ logo appears, press <F12> immediately.
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.
3
When the boot device list appears, highlight
Diagnostics
and press <Enter>.
The computer runs the Pre-boot System Assessment, a series of initial tests of your system
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board, keyboard, hard drive, and display.
• During the assessment, answer any questions that appear.
• If a failure is detected, the computer stops and beeps. To stop the assessment and restart
the computer, press <n>; to continue to the next test, press <y>; to retest the
component that failed, press <r>.
• If failures are detected during the Pre-boot System Assessment, write down the error
code(s) and contact Dell before continuing on to the Dell Diagnostics.
If the Pre-boot System Assessment completes successfully, you receive the message
Booting
Dell Diagnostic Utility Partition. Press any key to continue
.
NOTE: If you see a message stating that no diagnostics utility partition has been found, run the Dell
Diagnostics from your Drivers and Utilities CD.
4
Press any key to start the Dell Diagnostics from the diagnostics utility partition on your hard
drive.
Starting the Dell Diagnostics From the Optional Drivers and Utilities CD
1
Connect a CD drive to the system.
2
Insert the
Drivers and Utilities
CD.
3
Shut down and restart the computer.
When the DELL logo appears, press <F12> immediately.
If you wait too long and the Windows logo appears, continue to wait until you see the
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 system setup.
4
When the boot device list appears, highlight
CD/DVD/CD-RW Drive
and press <Enter>.
5
Select the
CD/DVD/CD-RW Drive
option from the CD boot menu.
6
Select the
Boot from CD-ROM
option from the menu that appears.
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