Owner's Manual

Introduction 7

Introduction

Dell Online Diagnostics, a stand-alone diagnostic program, that allows you to

run diagnostic tests on various hardware components of Dell systems in a

production environment, and helps you ensure maximum uptime of your

Dell systems.

You can use the graphical user interface (GUI) or the command line interface

(CLI) to run diagnostic tests on the hardware that Online Diagnostics

discovers on your system.

What’s New in this Release

• Addition of the error code, validation code, and service tag information for

critical errors during test execution.

• Support for Systems running Windows 2012.

Supported Operating Systems

For supported operating systems, see the Dell Online Diagnostics Version 2.30

Readme available at dell.com/serviceabilitytools

Devices Supported by Online Diagnostics

The following hardware devices are supported by Online Diagnostics:

•CD drives

•DVD drives

• CD/DVD RW combination drives

• Diskette drives

• Hard drives

• Network Interface Cards (NICs)

• Internal modems

•SCSI controllers

• RAID controllers