MAINTENANCE LAPTOP & REPAIR 6

Toshiba Personal Computer

Diagnostic Programs

 

Here is another method to run the test: Highlight a test item by using arrow keys, then,

press

Enter

to start. If there are parameters provided, user should set parameters in the

parameter dialog window.

CPU Speed Test (Step by Step):

Select test item: Select System —  CPU  —  CPU Speed ,  then, press the  Enter  key Parameters Setting 2.  Choose the  OK   button after you set the proper parameters in the following window. 3.Test Result  System will automatically run and display the test result as follows: Following is the comparison report of the two testing methods mentioned above: 1) Configuration and Running As to the method used in Mouse test, the user is required to select test items by pressing Space key and set the parameters artificially, (See 3.3.3 Item’s Parameters Configuration) Then press  F8  to start the test. User should configure each parameter in advance; otherwise the default parameters would be used. Using this method, user is allowed to select more than one test item at one time. 2) Running the current test item to the method adopted in CPU Speed test, user should highlight the test item and press Enter to start testing. And the user has to setup the parameters every time before running the test. Using this method, only one test item would be tested at one time. 3.2.3 Keyboard Layout test The test purpose is to check whether 30 kinds of keyboards run well during the test procedure. When users choose the item, the names of these countries will be displayed on the screen for user choice. User press any index of token in ASCII, and the program will test the kind of keymap of the country. The test screen would be shown as below   It requires user to press the key and check whether the key in the screen changes color or not. User can terminate test by typing ‘ END ’. When testing the ‘ Fn ’ key, it must press the  ‘ Esc ’ key at the same time. When the user has checked all the keys and all the keys in the screen have changed color, the diagnostics program would automatically end the test and report the pass information. If keyboard test fails, program will terminate the test and report the fail information when it is time to timeout. The test will end when all keys are pressed or test time is out after 100 seconds. 3.2.4  Audio Play Test Check whether the system could playback audio normally. When the test is completed, a file named Audio_P.log will be saved in the defined location. 3.2.5  Audio Record Test Check whether the system could record the sound normally. If there is no error during the whole test, Pass; otherwise Fail. The test will repeat for four times. When the test is completed, a file named autest.log will be saved in the defined location. 3.2.6 DMI Read Read the information from the system’s SMBIOS and display it in the screen as follows:  User can press any key to exit the program 3.2.7 DMI Write In addition to reading the DMI information, DMI Write also permits attributes editing and updating: Manufacture, Product Name, Version, Serial Number, and OEM Part Number, etc. The following screen will be displayed: In this screen, All lines which attribute could be edited and updated. The 1 line (the font st in yellow with blue background) shows the attribute’s value that is read from the current system and the 2 line (the font in red with turquoise background) shows the same value nd as that in the 1 line before user’s editing. User can modify the attribute’s value in the 2 st nd line and press Enter to confirm the current edition and continue editing the next attribute. During the editing, user could press F2 to confirm the DMI attribute update or press F4 to ignore the modification. Press ESC to exit the program of DMI Write. The confirmation screen is as below:   NOTE: Setup All of DMI Information in Type  is Max 32 Digital The attributes that have been modified would be marked in red; otherwise in yellow. User could press F2 to save the changes, or press F4 to ignore and exit the current program. 3.2.8  System Information This function is used to read the system information. When the test is completed, a file named System.log will be saved in the defined location. During the reading process, the following screen will be displayed to indicate that the progress is in detection:     On the left column of the above screen, the detected hardware components are listed. The corresponding information of the detected hardware components is displayed on the right of the screen. It displays the current running status information of the check program. The name of the program is marked on the top of the screen. At the bottom, the function keys are listed for user operation. During the detection, keyboard operation is invalid. When the detection is finished, the hardware components information will be displayed as follows: User can use function keys listed on the bottom of the screen to display the configuration of the component or exit the current program. On the left column, the components information is listed and user can use arrow keys or PgUp/PgDn to view the list and highlight the chosen component. On the right column, the configuration information of the highlighted component is listed. Press ESC to exit this program.