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20 Quick Reference Guide

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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.

Shut down the computer.

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.

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

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.

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

Connect a CD drive to the system.

Insert the

Drivers and Utilities

CD.

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.

When the boot device list appears, highlight

CD/DVD/CD-RW Drive

and press <Enter>.

Select the

CD/DVD/CD-RW Drive

option from the CD boot menu.

Select the

Boot from CD-ROM

option from the menu that appears.

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