When completed, the diagnostic will return 0 to the shell if completed normally. If an error occurs, it will return 1 tothe shell, and if a retest is required it will return 2. It will also print “PASS”, “FAIL”, or “RETEST” to the screen. PASS – The hardware passes the diagnostics.
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FAIL – The hardware has failed the diagnostics. RETEST – The hardware setup has failed the pre-check portion of the diagnostics and a warning message appears describing theproblem. Correct the problem per the pre-check message and then test again. By default, Field Diagnostics produces a binary log file which is used by NVIDIA engineers to diagnose a failing card.
Linux manufacturing Field Diagnostics includes a kernel module. The purpose of this module is to expose certain kernel-modeAPIs to Field Diagnostics, which runs as a user-mode application. In order to be able to install the kernel module, the systemmust contain configured kernel sources and development tools, including make and gcc. Without them it is not possible to compilethe kernel module. Use package manager provided by your distribution to install kernel sources. Typically the package nameis kernel-sources or linux-sources.
For example, on Debian type:$ sudo apt-get install linux-source-`uname -r`If you run Field Diagnostics as root, it will automatically run the included installmodule.sh script to compile and insertthe Field Diagnostics kernel module. However if Field Diagnostics is not run by the root user, it is necessary to installthe kernel module, which is recommended. For successful Field Diagnostics runs the NVIDIA GPUs in the system must be in their original, unaltered state, as initializedby the VBIOS. This means X must not have been run on the NVIDIA GPUs prior to running Field Diagnostics. Make absolutely surethat the NVIDIA kernel module is not loaded, otherwise the system may become unstable. In order to unload the NVIDIA kernelmodule it is necessary to first kill X. Killing X is also recommended even if it is using vesa or fb driver.To disable X in SuSE, disable the xdm service in YaST.On Debian-based systems (including Ubuntu), type: $ sudo update-rc.d -f gdm removeIf not using gnome, type kde or xdm instead of gdb (as applicable).
Linux Field Diagnostics relies on a kernel driver to handle cases where it is necessary to use kernel-mode APIs. The easiestway to install the Field Diagnostics kernel module is to use the provided installation script, which you will find in FieldDiagnostics runspace:$./installmodule.sh -installNote: You can’t install the kernel module from a network directory where the root user does not have write access. In thiscase copy installmodule.sh and driver.tgz to /tmp and run it there.This script also creates a udev configuration file in /etc/udev/rules.d/99-mods.rules. This file specifies group which willbe able to access the kernel module. By default this is the video group, such as for the NVIDIA driver.
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NVMax 2.093 Posted by viperTuesday, May 29 @ 13:01:56 GMT+1 Video Utils And again there is a new version of the NVMax utility. NVmax is a program designed to tweak any Nvidia graphics card which uses the detonator drivers.
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NVmax will allow you to customize the quality and performance for your system, DirectX and OpenGL.Version 2.093 updates:- Anisotropic filtering for 11.xx fixed in D3D- Further stereoscopic support.- Auto driver update has been disabled in all versions after a bandwidth overload on our server. This option will reappear in an improved form later.- If you get the error 'NvQTwk.dll missing entry' please Download NVMax 2.093 from here:. NVIDIA Modular Diagnostic Software Posted by ZoiahMonday, May 28 @ 22:30:26 GMT+1 Nvidia Hmmz, this looks interesting. NVIDIA Modular Diagnostic Software. This version appears to be for the GF3 and run in DOS.
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