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Getting Started with Microscope
With over 150 test routines using Microscope can sometimes seem a little 'daunting'.
Anyone who has had experience with other diagnostic tools, or someone who has never used one before, might find, to start with, that the number of tests and information in Microscope could appear to be a little bit overwhelming - but as users gain more and more experience with the software they begin to find out how useful it is and that it really saves them time in diagnosing or troubleshooting computers.
The following tests are intended to give the user a 'starting point' and from there move on to more and more tests and options.
We recommend a couple of tests for easy diagnostics of the most common problems, such as bad Hard Drives, Motherboard and Memory. The tests are done in batch mode.
This is the recommended setting for Batch Test
1) From the Batch Menu select <Select Test>
SystemBoard Test
Memory Test - select Pattern Test
and Full Bit Test
for Cache and Extended Memory
Floppy Test - select Drive 1
and choose <3.5 1.44 MB> then
select Butterfly Seek
and Read Test
Fixed Disk Test - select Drive 0 and
select Butterfly Seek,
Read
and Controller Test
IDE Device Test - select Drive 1 and 2,
select Butterfly Seek
and Read Test and
set it to entire drive
Video Test - select Page Video Memory Test
Other Divece Test - select Network Card and
USB Controller test
2) After selecting the test click the ESCAPE key and from the Batch Menu select <Run Selected>
3) 2 options will be presented.
The first one will run the test in a cycle until you stopped by hitting Escape key.
The second, you will be asked to set the number of passes for each cycle of test.
4) When the test are finish, go to Report Features and select <Log Report> select <Log to Disk>
Enter the file path in the form of B:test1.txt
Even if you only have one floppy drive, MicroScope emulates a virtual floppy drive during its execution and assigns the letter A. This is why for the physically installed floppy drive the letter assigned is always B.
Is a good practice to run the Base Memory Test first and then test the device you suspect is causing you problems and finally run a general test as the one described above.
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For more test guide lines please see our Diagnostic Tool Guide
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more about using Micro-Scope to create reports, handle Viruses, data recovery, do low-level formatting and troubleshooting hard drives, saving you hours of time!
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TROUBLE-SHOOTING
HARD DRIVES
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Click on the FEATURES link above for a full listing
of all the features!
- Works on all Intel™ compatible computers.
- Operating system independent.
- LAN Card Testing.
- Unlimited memory testing.
- Multi-processor testing.
- Much more...
Platforms Supported - Micro-Scope runs on ANY PC with
an Intel or Intel compatible processor (from 386/486 to the
latest Pentium, AMD and Cyrix CPUs), with ISA, EISA, PCI,
PCMCIA, Plug & Play, and hosting any operating system including
all Windows versions, DOS, OS2, Linux and UNIX.
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