HP Vectra XU 5/XX, Supplementary Manual

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Vectra XU Familiarization Guide Troubleshooting and Repair
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Diagnostic Utility
The HP Vectra Diagnostic Utility is common to the HP Vectra product line. It is provided on a
Bulletin Board.
To use the Diagnostic Utility:
1. Insert a 1.44 MB 3.5-inch diskette in drive A, and type:
FORMAT A: /S
[ENTER]
2. When the formatting has finished, type:
DEL A:\COMMAND.COM
[ENTER]
3. Leave the diskette in drive A.
4. Download the ZIP file of the Diagnostic Utility to a directory on your hard disk.
5. Uncompress the ZIP file.
6. Copy all the files, except the ZIP file, to the diskette in drive A.
7. Print out the Read.me file provided with the Diagnostic Utility files.
8. Follow the Read.me file instructions to use the Diagnostic Utility.
The Diagnostic Utility has a menu-driven graphical interface for selecting tests for the HP
Vectra XU PC. The Diagnostic Utility contains:
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in-depth Power-On-Self-Tests
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tests for peripheral boards
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an inspection utility to view low-level configuration information.
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a memory module locator utility to decode memory test errors and indicate which
memory module has failed.
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an error code display utility to explain error codes and indicate the probable cause of the
error.
New revisions of the Diagnostic Utility are available on the HP PC BBS.