Micro-Scope offers two methods for terminating the program. One of these will reboot the system, and the other will exit to the resident operating system, if Micro-Scope was running under that OS rather than its own OS.
These two choices will be found by selecting the item QUIT on the main Micro-Scope menu. Because certain routines in the diagnostic are sensitive about the way the program is terminated. it is recommended that one of these two options is always used to terminate the diagnostic rather than the power switch, Reset button or pressing CTL/ALT/DEL.
The option to Exit to OS will not be displayed if the diagnostic is booted from the M2000 O/S. It will only be displayed if the diagnostic is loaded under another operating system (DOS, OS2, etc.). This option allows the operator to quit Micro-Scope and exit to the OS without rebooting the system. However, changes to CMOS made with the Edit CMOS feature will not be utilized by the operating system until the system is rebooted. If Micro-Scope is running under another operating system it is possible to cause corruption to the file management system of that operating system if the computer is rebooted directly from Micro-Scope. This feature is also useful for determining the effect of network software on a system without affecting the network upon exit.
The option to Reboot System will terminate the diagnostic program and reboot the system. The reboot is a cold boot, not a warm boot. Any changes to CMOS will be updated to the system during POST as the system reboots.
If another operating system was open during the running of Micro-Scope, rebooting is an effective way to ensure that any changes caused by the tests will not stay loaded to affect operations of the system.
SCREEN – QUIT MENU