Alert-on lan™ test, Asset id™ test, Test results – IBM 6643 User Manual

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2.

Highlight

either

the

Memory

Test-Full

or

Memory

Test-Quick

option

and

press

Enter

.

3.

v

Memory

Test-Full

The

full

memory

test

will

take

about

80

seconds

per

MB

of

memory

and

will

detect

marginal,

intermittent,

and

solid

(stuck)

memory

failures.

v

Memory

Test-Quick

The

quick

memory

test

will

take

about

20

seconds

per

MB

of

memory

and

will

detect

solid

(stuck)

memory

failures

only.

Notes:

Either

level

of

memory

testing

can

be

performed

on

all

memory

or

a

selected

DIMM

socket.

Only

DIMM

sockets

containing

a

DIMM

can

be

selected

for

testing.

Unpopulated

sockets

are

noted

by

........

beside

the

test

description.

Alert-On

LAN

test

The

Alert

On

LAN

test

does

the

following:

v

Determines

if

Alert

On

LAN

is

supported

on

the

system.

v

Checks

the

revision

ID

register.

v

Verifies

the

EEPROM

checksum.

v

Validates

that

a

software

alert

can

be

sent.

Asset

ID

test

The

Asset

ID

test

does

the

following:

v

Determines

if

Asset

ID

is

supported

on

the

system.

v

Verifies

the

EEPROM

areas.

v

Performs

an

antenna

detection

test.

Test

results

IBM

PC

Enhanced

Diagnostic

test

results

will

produce

the

following

error

code

format:

Function

Code

Failure

Type

DeviceID

Date

ChkDigits

Text

v

Function

Code:

Represents

the

feature

or

function

within

the

PC.

v

Failure

Type:

Represents

the

type

of

error

encountered.

v

DeviceID:

Contains

the

component’s

unit-ID

which

corresponds

to

either

a

fixed

disk

drive,

removable

media

drive,

serial

or

parallel

port,

processor,

specific

DIMM,

or

a

device

on

the

PCI

bus.

v

Date:

Contains

the

date

on

which

the

diagnostic

test

was

run.

The

date

is

retrieved

from

CMOS

and

displayed

using

the

YYYYMMDD

format.

v

ChkDigits:

Contains

a

2-digit

check-digit

value

to

ensure

the

following:

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