Compaq diagnostics – Compaq XL280 User Manual

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ROUBLESHOOTING

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RESARIO

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OTEBOOK

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AINTENANCE

AND

S

ERVICE

G

UIDE

1800 S

ERIES

Presario 1800/1800T Series

Models: XL280, XL380, XL381,

and XL390

Compaq Diagnostics

Compaq Diagnostics utilities come pre-installed on 1800XL Series Notebooks. Run the

diagnostic utilities to view or test system information and external devices. If you run

Compaq Diagnostics from a diskette, be sure that the diagnostic program is version 10.11

or later.

The Diagnostics menu includes the following utilities:

Checkup (TEST)

View System Information (INSPECT)

Prepare Notebook for a Compaq Service Call (RemotePaq)

Customers are encouraged to run the Diagnostics utilities to try to solve a problem before

calling for support.

Checkup (TEST)

should be run with the options for saving the device list

to a file and printing or saving the error log. The

View System Information (INSPECT)

utility

should also be run with the option for printing or saving the information. Customers should

have these files or the printed information available when calling for support.

1780–Primary Hard Drive 0 Failure

Probable Cause

Recommended Action

Disk 0 failed to respond

1. Run

Checkup (TEST)

.

2.

Replace the hard drive

.

Hard drive format error

1. Run

Checkup (TEST)

.

2.

Replace the hard drive

.

1782–Hard Drive Controller

Probable Cause

Recommended Action

Hard drive controller failure

1. Run Setup.
2.

Replace the hard drive

.

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