TITLE: HP Insight Diagnostics Offline Edition VERSION: 7.3.0 Rev. A DESCRIPTION: This package contains the HP Insight Diagnostics Offline Edition for the listed desktop models and operating systems. HP Insight Diagnostics is a proactive management tool that provides diagnostics and troubleshooting capabilities to assist Information Technology (IT) administrators in verifying installations, troubleshooting problems, and performing repair validation. HP Insight Diagnostics Offline Edition performs various in-depth system and component testing while the operating system is not running, and is available by booting from the Documentation and Diagnostics CD. PURPOSE: Routine SOFTPAQ NUMBER: SP30656 SUPERSEDES: None EFFECTIVE DATE: June 9, 2004 CATEGORY: Diagnostic SSM SUPPORTED: No PRODUCT TYPE(S): Desktops PRODUCT MODEL(S): HP Compaq dx7200 Slim Tower PC: All Models HP Compaq dc7600 Small Form Factor PC: All Models HP Compaq dc7600 Convertible Minitower PC: All Models HP Compaq dc7600 Ultra-slim Desktop PC: All Models OPERATING SYSTEM(S): Windows 2000 Windows XP Home Edition Windows XP Professional LANGUAGE(S): Arabic Brazilian Portuguese Chinese(PRC Simplified) Czech Danish Dutch Finnish French German Greek Hebrew Hongkong Hungarian Italian Japanese Korean Norwegian Polish Portuguese Euro Russian Spanish Swedish Taiwanese Chinese Turkish US English ENHANCEMENTS: N/A PREREQUISITES: N/A HOW TO USE: IMPORTANT: The CD data is delivered as a single ISO image file (in the format .iso). This ISO image file is first downloaded to your hard drive and then must be burned directly to CD media, exactly as is. This is a large file (greater than 60 MB) and may take several minutes to download. Make sure you have enough space on your hard drive to store the image file. 1. Download the .iso file indicated under Current Version above. Downloading this file provides a master ISO image file of the most current HP Insight Diagnostics Offline Edition CD-ROM. From this .iso file, you can burn your own bootable CD. A CD (ISO) image is not a collection of compressed or uncompressed data files; nor is it an executable (binary). Rather, it is a large, single file, which must be copied exactly as is onto a CD. In effect, you will download the image from the download site, ''burning'' its contents onto your CD. 2. Burn the full ISO image onto a blank CD using a CD-ROM burner/recorder and any major CD-burning software, such as Roxio (Adaptec) or Nero. Most common CD-burning applications should have the ability to burn an “image” to CD. The following procedure provides an example for creating a bootable data CD from an .iso Image File (using Roxio/Adaptec Software): 1. Insert a blank CD into your CD-ROM burner/recorder (the destination drive). 2. From the File menu, select Create CD from CD Image. 3. Select the image file (*.iso file) that you want to burn to the CD. 4. Click Open. The CD Creation Setup dialog box appears. 5. If necessary, change the CD Creation Setup settings. 6. Click OK. Use the following procedure to run the HP Insight Diagnostics once you have created a bootable CD: 1. Set your system to enable it to boot from CD. 2. Insert the HP Insight Diagnostics CD that you created into the CD-ROM drive. 3. Shut down and then restart the computer, allowing it to boot from the CD. The Diagnostics are automatically loaded and run. Copyright (c) 2005 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.