the ibm enhanced diagnostics diskette is used to test hardware components on your computer. see “using an ibm enhanced diagnostics diskette” on page 87 for instructions on how to use an ibm enhanced diagnostics diskette.

    you can create an ibm enhanced diagnostics diskette using access ibm, by downloading a program image from the world wide web, or from the device

    drivers and ibm enhanced diagnostics cd.

    complete the following steps to create the diagnostics diskette using access ibm:

    1. from the access ibm welcome window, click how do i...; then, click protect data.

    2. click creating emergency diskettes.

    3. click diagnostic diskette.

    4. follow the instructions on the screen.

    complete the following steps to create a startable ibm enhanced diagnostics diskette from the world wide web:

    1. go to http://www.ibm.com/pc/support/ on the world wide web.

    2. download the diagnostics file for your computer to a hard disk directory (not to a diskette).

    3. go to a dos prompt and change to the directory where the file was downloaded.

    4. insert a blank, high-density diskette into diskette drive a.

    5. type filename a:

    where filename is the name of the file you downloaded from the web, and press enter.

    the downloaded web file is self-extracting and will be copied to the diskette. when the copy completes, store the diskette in a safe place.

    complete the following steps to create an ibm enhanced diagnostics diskette from the device drivers and ibm enhanced diagnostics cd:

    1. insert a formatted, blank, high-density diskette into diskette drive a.

    2. insert the device drivers and ibm enhanced diagnostics cd into the cd-rom drive.

    3. at the command prompt, switch to the cd-rom drive letter. for example, type

    e: (where e is the cd-rom drive letter), and press enter.

    4. change to the pcdr directory. type, cd pcdr and press enter.

    5. type makediag and press enter.

    6. follow the instructions on the screen to create the diskette.