Hardware Owner's Manual

Running System Diagnostics 327
From a USB Flash Drive
1 Format the USB flash drive to emulate a hard drive.
See the documentation that came with your USB flash drive for
instructions.
2 Configure the USB flash drive to be a bootable device.
See the documentation that came with your USB flash drive for
instructions. Dell also provides a USB memory key boot utility for
download at
support.dell.com .
3 Install DKMS DOS on the USB flash drive.
4 Create a directory for the system diagnostics on the USB flash drive.
5 Copy the system diagnostics files into the directory.
6 Ensure that you have the USB flash drive connected to the blade.
7 Enter the System Setup program and ensure that the USB Flash Drive
Emulation Type
option is set to Auto and set the USB flash drive as the
first device in the
Hard-Disk Drive Sequence option.
See "Using the System Setup Program and UEFI Boot Manager" on
page 137 for instructions.
NOTE: If you power up or reboot the blade without the USB flash drive
connected to the blade, you must reset the options in the System Setup
program again.
8 Ensure that you have the USB flash drive connected to the blade.
9 Reboot the blade.
If the blade fails to boot, see "Contacting Dell" on page 361.
When you start the system diagnostics, a message is displayed stating that the
diagnostics are initializing. Next, the Diagnostics menu appears. The menu
allows you to run all or specific diagnostics tests or to exit the system
diagnostics.
NOTE: Before you read the rest of this section, start the system diagnostics so that
you can see the utility on your screen.