Troubleshooting
Microsoft windows event
viewer
The Microsoft w
indows event viewer maintains a permanent record of instrume nt
diagnostics failure information, with other messages regarding the operating
system. If there is not a shortcut to the Event Viewer on the desktop you can
access it by clicking the Event Viewer button on the Diagnostics Failure Info tab.
To view the Diagnostics failure information, first click the Windows Logs icon
in the left frame (under Event Viewer (Local)). Then click the Applications
icon. The view changes to show the individual error reports, as shown in the
following figure.
Scroll through the Event list to locate error events. Pay attention to the date
and time stamps, as the information is a permanent record and shows failure
information from earlier d iagnostic sessions.
Also note that the Signal Analyzer diagnostic errors are labeled as TekRSA in the
Source column, to differentiate them from operating system messages.
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