Acer TravelMate 520 TravelMate 520 Service Guide - Page 46

System Diagnostic Diskette IMPORTANT: 1The diagnostics program here that we used is called PQA (Product Quality Assurance) and is provided by Acer Headquarters. You can utilize it as a basic diagnostic tool. To get this program, either download it from http://csd.acer.com.tw or find it in the TravelMate 520 service CD kit. To better fit local service requirements, your regional office MAY have other diagnostic program. Please contact your regional offices or the responsible personnel/channel to provide you with further technical details. NOTE: This program contains a readme.txt file. This readme.txt file will introduce each test and its functions. This diagnostic program is designed to perform the following diagnostic tools for Acer TravelMate 520 notebook machine. It provides the following functions. 1. PQA System Diagnostics 2. Audio Resource and Loopback Test 3. IR Test 4. USB Register and Connect/ Disconnect Test To use this diskette, first boot from this diskette, then a "Microsoft Windows 98 Startup Menu" prompts you to choose the testing item. Follow the instructions on screen to proceed. IMPORTANT:If this diskette is not bootable, do the following actions before you use it: 1. Do system transfers. 2. Copy the following files to A:\ HIMEM.SYS RAMDRIVE.SYS CHOICE.COM MSCDEX.EXE PQA System Diagnostics NOTE: This PQA diagnostics program will test Acer TravelMate 520 notebook series' hardware peripherals. 1. When you select One Test, Test command (F2 key) will only work in the first-level menu (Item Test), if you are in sub-level menu, please press ESC to return to upper-level (Item Test) menu. 2. Use Space Bar to select/ deselect a testing item. 3. When testing is done, there will be a testing report, where you could find out whether the testing is successful or not. Audio Resource and Speaker-Out Test This function will test Audio Resource and Loopback of Acer TravelMate 520 notebook series. You will see "PASS" when test is successful. You need "Loopbacker" when you choose "Loopback Test". Please put Loopbacker in Line-in, Line-out and Micro-in. You will see "PASS" when test is successful. Infrared Ray (IR) Test This function will test Infrared Ray of Acer TravelMate 520 series. Following are the steps: 1. You must prepare a reflect server (another Acer TravelMate 520 notebook) which can reply to testing unit the communicated data. 2. Prepare a bootable disk for the server, choose "Make a Host Disk". 3. Insert the Host disk in Host Server, then reboot. 1 New added description. Please pay attention to it. 40 Chapter 2