Lenovo System x3650 M5 - Running the Dsa Preboot Diagnostic Programs; Diagnostic Text Messages

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Ifyouareabletorestarttheserverorifyouneedcomprehensivediagnostics,useDSAPreboot.

Formoreinformationandtodownloadtheutilities,gotohttps://support.lenovo.com/us/

en/documents/LNVO-DSA.

RunningtheDSAPrebootdiagnosticprograms

UsethisinformationtoruntheDSAPrebootdiagnosticprograms.

Note:TheDSAmemorytestmighttakeupto30minutestorun.Iftheproblemisnotamemoryproblem,

skipthememorytest.

ToruntheDSAPrebootdiagnosticprograms,completethefollowingsteps:

Step1.Iftheserverisrunning,turnofftheserverandallattacheddevices.

Step2.Turnonallattacheddevices;then,turnontheserver.

Step3.Whentheprompt<F2>Diagnosticsisdisplayed,pressF2.

Note:TheDSAPrebootdiagnosticprogrammightappeartobeunresponsiveforanunusual

lengthoftimewhenyoustarttheprogram.Thisisnormaloperationwhiletheprogramloads.The

loadingprocessmaytakeupto10minutes.

Step4.Optionally,selectQuittoDSAtoexitfromthestand-alonememorydiagnosticprogram.

Note:Afteryouexitfromthestand-alonememorydiagnosticenvironment,youmustrestartthe

servertoaccessthestand-alonememorydiagnosticenvironmentagain.

Step5.Typeguitodisplaythegraphicaluserinterface,ortypecmdtodisplaytheDSAinteractivemenu.

Step6.Followtheinstructionsonthescreentoselectthediagnostictesttorun.

Ifthediagnosticprogramsdonotdetectanyhardwareerrorsbuttheproblemremainsduringnormalserver

operation,asoftwareerrormightbethecause.Ifyoususpectasoftwareproblem,seetheinformation

thatcomeswithyoursoftware.

Asingleproblemmightcausemorethanoneerrormessage.Whenthishappens,correctthecauseofthe

ﬁrsterrormessage.Theothererrormessagesusuallywillnotoccurthenexttimeyourunthediagnostic

programs.

Iftheserverstopsduringtestingandyoucannotcontinue,restarttheserverandtryrunningtheDSA

Prebootdiagnosticprogramsagain.Iftheproblemremains,replacethecomponentthatwasbeingtested

whentheserverstopped.

Diagnostictextmessages

Diagnostictextmessagesaredisplayedwhilethetestsarerunning.

Adiagnostictextmessagecontainsoneofthefollowingresults:

Passed:Thetestwascompletedwithoutanyerrors.

Failed:Thetestdetectedanerror.

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