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Installation Instruction • Right-click the download file and choose Extract on the shortcut menu. • Click Setup.exe to install ASUS PC Diagnostics • Click "yes" for windows 7 notifications. • Follow "ASUS PC diagnostic Setup Wizard" to finish the installation.
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Function introduction: Run the shortcut on your desktop to start ASUS PC Diagnostics: ASUS PC Diagnostics is a diagnostic tool designed to test the following on your computer: System Information. System Devices. System Stress. The System Information Collection detects the essential operating system and devices information.
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ASUS PC Diagnostics tests and displays information on the physical devices and operating system on your computer. These information include: Operating system information This information includes such as Name, Version, and Installation date. CPU information This information includes such as Manufacturer, Model, CPU Clock Speed, Cache, CPU functional features, Driver version, and Current CPU usage.
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This information includes such as Name, Serial number, Capacity, Firmware version, Interface type, Supported features (DMA, LBA), and ATA/ATAPI version. Audio Device information This information includes such as Manufacturer, Model, Audio resources, and Driver version. 1394 Controller information This information includes such as Name, Resources, and Driver version.
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System Devices Test ASUS PC Diagnostics checks the physical devices installed on your computer, which can be done either through Auto or Interactive test. Auto Test Auto Test automatically checks and creates reports on any errors on the system components.
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Network Adapter Audio Device Keyboard/Mouse Hard Disk Drive Monitor Display Adapter Camera System Devices Test Main Screen (Click the items to get more information.) Note: This is an auto test. CPU Test items: CPU Speed Test Calculates the actual CPU speed/frequency. ...
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Detects if the current CPU supports MMX technology and, when it does, starts testing the MMX instructions. SSE Test Detects if the current CPU supports SSE technology and, when it does, starts testing the SSE instructions. SSE2 Test Detects if the current CPU supports SSE2 technology and, when it does, starts testing the SSE2 instructions.
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Memory Stability Test Uses a set of parameters to test the stability of the memory modules. Address test, walking ones Address test, own address Moving inversions, ones&zeros Moving inversions, 8 bits pattern Moving inversions, random pattern Block move, 64 bits moves Moving inversions, 32 bits pattern Random number sequence Modulo 20, ones&zeros...
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Hard Disk Drive Note: This is an interactive test. Hard Disk Drive Test items: SMART Status Test Tests and displays the hard disk drive's SMART (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) status, which allows you to check the health status of the hard disk drive.
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HDD Read Speed Test HDD Read Speed Test Screen (Click the items to get more information.)
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Display Adapter Note: This is an interactive test. Note: Before starting the video test, ensure that the hardware acceleration is set to a level that this video test supports. See the figure below.
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Video Test items: Texture Mapping Test Tests if the display adapter supports the texture mapping function. Fixed Transformation and Lighting Test Note: This test only runs when you have installed DirectX 9.0 or later version on your computer. This test, putting a large number of calculations on the GPU, is to test the strength of the GPU.
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Note: You can configure the proxy settings during the network test. If you are asked to configure the proxy settings to access the ASUS official website, configure the settings in this area. If not, ignore the proxy settings and start the test directly.
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Network Adapter Test Screen (Click the items to get more information.) Monitor Note: This is an interactive test. Monitor Test items: Solid Color Test Sets the screen to solid red, green, blue, black, and white to test if there are dead pixels (bright or dark spots).
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Note: The Respiratory Effects Test checks the CRT monitor's Respiratory Effects. Note: During the above tests, you have to click Pass/Fail to send the result to the sub tester. Monitor Test Screen (Click the items to get more information.) Audio Device Note: This is an interactive test.
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Note: Before you start recording, ensure that your computer's microphone is turned Recording Test Screen (Click the items to get more information.) Multimedia Playback Test After you start the test, click Open button to select a music file, and then click Play button to play the music.
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Keyboard/Mouse Note: This is an interactive test. Keyboard/Mouse Test items: Keyboard Test After you start the test, press a key on the keyboard. Ensure that the key shown on the test screen is the same as the one you pressed. Note: This test only starts when you use a 105-key standard keyboard.
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Mouse Test The Mouse Test includes the clicking, scrolling and dragging tests. Mouse Test Screen (Click the items to get more information.)
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COM Port Note: This is an auto test. Serial Port Test items: Loopback Test After setting the Serial Port to the Loopback mode, tests the stability of the Serial Port with different baudrates including 115200 bps,57600 bps,38400 bps,19200 bps,9600 bps,4800 bps,2400 bps, and 1200 bps.
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Parallel Port Note: This is an auto test. Parallel Port Test items: TFIFO Mode Test After setting the Parallel Port to the TFIFO mode, tests the stability of its data transmission. Note: This test is only for a Parallel Port supporting the ECP mode. If the current Parallel Port does not support the ECP mode, the result of this test shows Not Tested.
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USB Test items: Lists the USB Host Controllers and the USB devices. PCI(E) Note: This is an auto test. PCI(E) Test items: Detects the connection status, the connection bandwidth, and the manufacturer ID, device ID, device type and other information of the PCI / PCIE slots. Camera Note: This is an interactive test.
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System Stress Test The ASUS PC Diagnostics checks the system stability using specially designed stress testers to test the main components such as the CPU, memory, and display adapter. The System Stress Test includes: CPU Stress Test Memory Stress Test ...
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During the specified time, the above two tests run alternatively to assess the display adapter load ability. Test Results Analysis For each devices test (such as the System Devices Test / System Stress Test), the ASUS PC Diagnostics shows the corresponding test results as Passed, Failed, or Value. ...
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The device is not properly connected. Send to ASUS When ASUS PC Diagnostics detects problems with your system, you can use this function to send a report to ASUS. Note: To help solve the problem, please fill in all boxes as completely and accurately as possible.