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Service Hints & Tips

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Aptiva - Advanced Diagnostics Diskette

Applicable to: World-Wide

Advance Diagnostic Diskette:
The Advanced Diagnostics program comes on one diskette packaged with this book. The diskette is labeled "For Machine Type 2144 and 2168" and is for the Service Level I model.

The Advance Diagnostic program is intended to test only IBM products. Non-IBM products, prototype cards, or modified options can give false errors and invalid system responses.

To load the Advance Diagnostics diskette:
1. Power off the system unit.
2. Install the correct Advanced Diagnostics diskette in drive A.
3. Power on the system unit.
4. Do not press F1 when the icon appears.
5. If any POST errors appears after POST, make a note of the errors and press the Esc key.

To access diagnostic tests from the SELECT AN OPTION Menu:
1. Press 0 (SYSTEM CHECKOUT).
2. At the Installed Devices menu, press Y, then Enter.
3. The SYSTEM CHECKOUT menu is displayed.
4. Select 0 or 1 from the SYSTEM CHECKOUT menu.
5. Select the device to be tested.

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Diagnostics

Date Created

03-10-96

Last Updated

17-12-98

Revision Date

17-12-99

Brand

IBM Aptiva

Product Family

Aptiva

Machine Type

2144, 2168

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