Dell Diagnostics: Dell OptiPlex GX1 Small-Form-Factor System User's Guide
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The
Key-Help
category in the
Subtest
menu displays a list of key controls available.
Quit Menu Under Subtest
The
Quit Menu
category in the
Subtest
menu returns you to the
Main
menu.
Options
Table 1 lists all of the possible values for each global parameter of Options. A brief description of each
parameter follows the table. To change
Options
parameters, press the spacebar, the left- and right- arrow
keys, or the plus (+) and minus (-) keys.
Table 1. Option Parameters
Option Limit
Possible Values
Number of Times to Repeat Test(s)
0001
through
9999
, or
0000
, which loops indefinitely until you
press the <Ctrl> and <Break> keys. The default is
1
.
Maximum Errors Allowed
0000
through
9999
, where
0000
means that there is no error limit.
The default is
1
.
Pause For User Response
Yes
,
No
Allows you to decide whether tests will wait for user input.
The default is
Yes
to wait for user input.
Output Device for Status Messages
Display
,
Printer
,
File
If you have a printer attached to your computer, you can use it to
print the status messages, if any, that are generated when a test
runs. (The printer must be turned on and in the online mode to
print.) If you select
File
, the messages are printed to a file named
result
on a diskette that you insert into drive A when prompted. If
you are running the diagnostics from a utility partition on your
hard-disk drive, the
result
file is created on the hard-disk drive.
The default is
Display
.
Output Device for Error Messages
Display
,
Printer
,
File
This parameter has the same effect as the
Output
Device
for
Status Messages
parameter, except that it pertains only to error
messages. The default is
Display
.
Number of Times to Repeat Test(s)
This parameter specifies the number of times the tests run when you select Run. To change the
default, type in the desired value. If you type 0 (zero), the tests will run indefinitely.
Maximum Errors Allowed
This parameter specifies the maximum number of errors that can occur before testing is stopped. The
error count begins from zero each time you run a subtest or test group individually or each time you
select All to run all of them. To change the default, type in the desired value. If you type 0 (zero), you
