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Smith Micro Software, Inc. 51 Columbia, Suite 200 Aliso Viejo, CA 92656 World Wide Web: http://www.smithmicro.com/ CheckIt PE User’s Guide ii Smith Micro Software Contents Copyright Notice and Disclaimer............................................................................ii OVERVIEW..........................................................................................................................................1 GETTING STARTED..............................................................................................................................2 Hardware Requirements ................................................................................................2 Booting from a Floppy Disk..........................................................................................2 CHECKIT PE USER INTERFACE ............................................................................................................4 Navigating CheckIt PE with the Keyboard .............................................................4 Navigating CheckIt PE with a Mouse .....................................................................5 File Menu ......................................................................................................................6 Save Report .............................................................................................................6 Save Snapshot..........................................................................................................7 Print Report .............................................................................................................8 Save Test Setup .......................................................................................................9 Open Test Setup ......................................................................................................9 Exit ........................................................................................................................10 View Menu ..................................................................................................................10 Options Menu ..............................................................................................................11 System ...................................................................................................................12 Files .......................................................................................................................13 Startup ...................................................................................................................13 Help Menu...................................................................................................................14 CHECKIT PE DETECTION...................................................................................................................16 Inventory View............................................................................................................16 Motherboard ..........................................................................................................17 BIOS......................................................................................................................17 CMOS....................................................................................................................17 Chipset...................................................................................................................20 Cache .....................................................................................................................20 Super I/O Chip.......................................................................................................21 Connectors.............................................................................................................22 CPU .......................................................................................................................23 Memory .................................................................................................................24 Hard Disks.............................................................................................................24 Floppy....................................................................................................................26 Keyboard ...............................................................................................................27 Network .................................................................................................................27 Video System ........................................................................................................28 CheckIt PE User’s Guide iii Smith Micro Software IDE ........................................................................................................................29 Serial Ports ............................................................................................................30 Parallel Ports..........................................................................................................30 Sound.....................................................................................................................30 Modems .................................................................................................................31 Mouse ....................................................................................................................31 MPEG....................................................................................................................31 PCMCIA................................................................................................................31 USB .......................................................................................................................32 SCSI.......................................................................................................................32 Resource Maps ......................................................................................................33 CHECKIT PE TESTS ..........................................................................................................................36 Motherboard ................................................................................................................36 DMA......................................................................................................................36 Cache .....................................................................................................................36 CMOS....................................................................................................................37 CPU .......................................................................................................................37 Memory .......................................................................................................................37 Snake On ...............................................................................................................38 Snake Off...............................................................................................................38 Parity .....................................................................................................................38 Inverse Parity.........................................................................................................38 Checkerboard.........................................................................................................39 Inverse Checkerboard............................................................................................39 Bit Walk Left.........................................................................................................39 Inverse Bit Walk Left ............................................................................................39 Bit Walk Right.......................................................................................................39 Inverse Bit Walk Right..........................................................................................39 March.....................................................................................................................40