85Hardware Diagnostics5 While [Panasonic] boot screen is displayed, press and hold Ctrl + F7 until “Please Wait”appears at the bottom of the display.When the PC-Diagnostic Utility starts up, it will automatically begin the diagnostic check for all hardware compo-nents.z If the password is requested, enter the password.z The touch pad and the internal keyboard may not be used when each hardware checking isrunning. While checking, blue and yellow colors are displayed on the left side of the hardwareicon (A).z By clicking the icon, you can execute the following operations:• : Start the diagnostic check from the beginning• : Stop the diagnostic check (You cannot restart the check partway through by clicking )• : Display help (click the screen or press Space to return to the original diagnostic check screen)z You can check the status of the diagnostic check by the display color on the left side of the hardware icon (A).• Aqua: Not running diagnostic check• Alternating blue and yellow: Currently running diagnostic check. The interval of the alternating colors differsdepending on the type of diagnostic check currently running.During memory diagnostic check, the display may freeze for a long period of time. Wait until the process iscomplete.• Green: No problems discovered• Red: Problems discoveredNOTEz Using the following procedure, you can run a diagnostic check on a specified hardware component, orrun an extended diagnostic check on the memory or the hard disk (The extended diagnostic check isonly for the memory and the hard disk). The extended diagnostic check is more detailed, and sorequires a longer period of time to run.A Click to stop the diagnostic check.B Click the icon for the hardware that is not to be checked, so that the icon is displayed in gray (B).When running a check on the memory or the hard disk, clicking the icon once will turn on theextended diagnostic check (“FULL” (C) will be displayed below the icon); click again, and the iconwill be displayed in gray (D).C Click to start the diagnostic check.ABe.g. hard diskCD