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Setting Up Dell Online Diagnostics 9
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Setting Up Dell Online Diagnostics
This section describes the process for setting up Dell Online Diagnostics.
Before You Begin
• Read the setup requirements and ensure that your system meets or
exceeds the minimum system requirements. See Minimum System
Requirements.
• Read the Online Diagnostics
ReadMe provided with this application. The
readme contains the latest information about Online Diagnostics in
addition to information about known issues.
Things to Remember
• Online Diagnostics is engineered to diagnose hardware problems on
individual systems.
• Hard drive diagnostic tests are designed to run as low-priority background
tasks to limit their effect on other hard drive input/output activity.
• Online Diagnostics is a comprehensive diagnostics tool that exercises all
testable components in your system. While these tests are running, your
system may experience performance degradation which may impact your
product environments performance.
NOTE: It is recommended that diagnostics not be run during peak load hours/
high demand times and all non-essential applications closed to ensure your
system performance is not negatively impacted.
• Online Diagnostics does not address problems that arise at the network
level, unless the problem resides with the NIC on the system running the
diagnostics.