SOFTPAQ NUMBER:  SP7781
PART NUMBER:  N/A
FILE NAME:  N/A
TITLE:  Personal Computer Diagnostics 
VERSION:  10.27 Rev D
LANGUAGE:  US English

CATEGORY:  Diagnostics-Setup

DIVISIONS:  Desktops
            Consumer

PRODUCTS AFFECTED:  Compaq Deskpro and Presario products

OPERATING SYSTEM:  N/A

SYSTEM CONFIGURATION:  N/A

PREREQUISITES:  N/A

EFFECTIVE DATE:  July 24, 1998

ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION ALLOWED:  Yes

SOFTPAQ UTILITY VERSION:  3.1

SUPERSEDES:  SP7453

DESCRIPTION:  Unpacks the files needed to create a bootable Compaq 
Personal Computer Diagnostics diskette, which supports currently 
shipping Deskpro and Presario products.  
NOTE:  This version or another version of Personal Computer Diagnostics is 
included in separate Armada and Professional Workstations SoftPaqs, 
which often also include Computer Setup.

PC Diagnostics is installed on the Diagnostics Partition for those 
systems which support it and have hard drives.  It is shipped as a 
diskette or diskette image on other products.

A Compaq Personal Computer Diagnostics diskette contains programs that
can perform the following tasks:
 - TEST 
 - INSPECT (display machine config) 

The diskette in this SoftPaq can be used to update PC Diagnostics on the 
Diagnostics Partition or to restore it if the Diagnostics Partition has been 
destroyed.   PC Diagnostics can be run by pressing F10 during power-up or 
reboot when prompted in the lower right corner of the screen on some models 
or when the cursor jumps to the upper right corner of the screen on other models.  
Or it can be run directly from this diskette.

NOTE: For the Deskpro EP Series, PC Diagnostics must be run from diskette.

Enhancements/fixes:
 - Added support for French 56K modem.

HOW TO USE:

1. Download the SoftPaq to a directory on your hard drive.
The file downloaded is a self-extracting executable with a filename 
based on the SoftPaq Number above.

2. Execute the downloaded file and follow the on-screen instructions. 
Entering "Y" to confirm the unpacking of files creates a new directory 
folder in the download directory.  All files are unpacked into this 
newly created directory.

3. To create the Diagnostics diskette, run MAKEDISK.BAT and 
follow on-screen instructions.

3. After the Diagnostic diskette has been created, you may delete the  
self-extracting file downloaded in step 1, as well as the directory
folder and files created in step 2.

4. Shut down and power off the computer.

5. Place the newly created Diagnostics diskette in Drive A:, and 
power up the computer, allowing the computer to boot from the diskettte.

6. To install or upgrade Personal Computer Diagnostics on the Diagnostics 
Partition, select "Create" or "Update" partition from the "Manage Diagnostics 
Partition" menu, and follow the prompts.  Or select the option to run 
PC Diagnostics from the diskette.

Copyright 1998, Compaq Computer Corporation.  All rights reserved.

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