Diagnostics – Rockwell Automation 6189V-xxxx Non-display Industrial Computers User Manual User Manual

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Rockwell Automation Publication 6177R-UM002D-EN-P - October 2014

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System Troubleshooting

Chapter 6

Diagnostics

If you completed the troubleshooting steps and issues remain, use the Diagnostics
menu in the UEFI set-up utility to isolate the issue. Diagnostics tests computer
components to determine the cause of a malfunction.

Press F2 during POST or press F10 at any time to access the UEFI set-up utility:

F2 during POST accesses the main menu of the UEFI set-up utility.

Select Diagnostics on the main menu.

F10 directly accesses the Diagnostics menu of the UEFI set-up utility.

See

Diagnostics on page 73

for more information.

Follow these steps to save diagnostic reports.

1. From the Options menu, select Generate Report and press Enter.

2. Select Report destination and press Enter.

3. Select File and press Enter.

4. Select the device path to generate the log report and press Enter.

If you must generate the report in the current file system, press Enter.

Otherwise, select Continue and press Enter.

5. Enter log file details (file name and heading) for the report.

The default file name is AMIDiag.LOG.

6. Set the report parameters, such as log errors, log test activities, log test start

time, log test end time, log errors only, log errors only with time, Append
to old log file, Log device info on fail, Log device info on abort.

7. To exit the submenu, select Continue and press Enter.

You do not need to disconnect or move your computer to perform an initial
diagnosis. The selected test affects the process, which can take as little as 5
minutes or as long as 8 hours. After Diagnostics has run, you can generate a
report for analysis by a technical support representative, which expedites any
necessary repair process.

IMPORTANT

An external keyboard and monitor must be connected to the computer to
perform these steps.

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