Owner's Manual

Introduction 7
Diagnostics Features
Online Diagnostics offers the following features:
• Discovering Devices
Enables Online Diagnostics to enumerate and discover all testable devices
on your Dell system. Enumeration occurs when the application is
launched. If your system hardware has changed, restart the application to
re-enumerate the devices on the system.
• Device and Test Selection
Enables you to select the devices and the diagnostics tests you want to run
on the selected devices. See Running Diagnostic Tests.
•
Diagnostic Test Review
Enables you to review the selected diagnostic tests.
See Running Diagnostic Tests.
•Diagnostic Test Status
Enables you to view the status of the diagnostic tests that are running. See
Running Diagnostic Tests.
• Diagnostic Test Results
Enables you to view the results of the diagnostic tests that have run.
See Running Diagnostic Tests.
•Help
Allows you to view the help information for the various devices and
diagnostic tests.
To view a description of a device or a diagnostic test, select the device or
the test and select
Help in the GUI or run the pediags --help
command.
•Quick Test
Enables you to perform a quick test. This feature is applicable on selected
tests and the option displays in the GUI only for those tests.
See Configuring the Test Execution Settings.