Lenovo ThinkCentre M90p - Viewing the Test Log

•FailureType:
Representsthetypeoferrorencountered.
•DeviceID:
Containsthecomponent'sunit-IDthatcorrespondstoaxeddiskdrive,removablemediadrive,
processor,specicRIMM,oradeviceonthePCIbus.
•Date:
Containsthedatewhenthediagnostictestwasrun.ThedateisretrievedfromCMOSanddisplayed
usingtheYYYYMMDDformat.
•ChkDigits:
Containsa2-digitcheck-digitvaluetoensurethefollowing:
–Diagnosticswererunonthespecieddate.
–Diagnosticswererunonthespeciedcomputer.
–Thediagnosticerrorcodeisrecordedcorrectly.
•Text:
Descriptionoftheerror.
Note:See“Diagnosticerrorcodes”onpage44
forerrorcodelistings.
QuickandFullerase-harddiskdrive
Thediagnosticsprogramofferstwoharddiskdriveformatutilities:
•QuickEraseHardDrive
•FullEraseHardDrive
QuickEraseHardDriveprovidesaDOSutilitythatperformsthefollowing:
•DestroystheMasterBootRecord(MBR)ontheharddiskdrive.
•DestroysallcopiesoftheFATTableonallpartitions(boththemasterandbackup).
•Destroysthepartitiontable.
•Providesmessagesthatwarntheuseraboutanon-recoverableprocess.
TheFullEraseHardDriveprovidesaDOSutilitythatperformsthefollowing:
•PerformsallthestepsinQuickErase.
•ProvidesaDOSutilitythatwritesrandomdatatoallsectorsoftheharddiskdrive.
•Providesanestimateoftimetocompletionalongwithavisualrepresentationofcompletionstatus.
•Providesmessagesthatwarntheuseraboutanon-recoverableprocess.
Important:MakesurethatalldataisbackedupbeforeusingtheQuickorFullErasefunctions.
ToselecttheQuickEraseHardDriveorFullEraseHardDriveutility,dothefollowing:
1.SelecttheUTILITYoptiononthetoolbarandpressEnter.
2.SelecteithertheQUICKERASEorFULLERASEHARDDISKoptionandfollowtheinstructionson
thescreen.
Viewingthetestlog
Errorsreportedbythediagnostictestwillbedisplayedbytheprogramasafailedtest.
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