OMSA Live 5.1 should work on 6th gens.  5.4 won't.  5.5 will depending on
the controller in the system
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On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Stroller <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> Well, I "won" on eBay earlier this week - actually, I think I did
> quite well, picked up one of these machines for £40 - and I'm just
> checking it out at the moment.
>
> Is there such a thing as a bootable hardware diagnostics CD that
> covers the 2650, please?
>
> I have looked at the Dell downloads page for this model <
> http://tinyurl.com/yatrt9h
>  > [1] and I see multiple .iso CD images that might fit the
> description - notably OM_5.2.0_SDU_A00.ISO and OM_6.2.0_SSDT_A00.iso,
> both described (I think) as "Systems Service And Diagnostic Tools".
>
> The thing is that that could equally describe a bunch of utilities
> that you install under Windows to check system health, and there are
> other disk images on there such as "Systems Management Tools and
> Documentation" - there are just so many it's a bit confusing.
>
> I understand that it's possible to make a systems partition on the
> hard-drive - is this the only option for diagnostics, or can the
> hardware diagnostics utilities (which I assume are available?) be run
> from CD, too?
>
> Many thanks for any comments,
>
> Stroller.
>
>
>
>
> [1]
> http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?os=WNET&catid=36&dateid=-1&impid=-1&osl=EN&typeid=-1&formatid=-1&servicetag=&SystemID=PWE_FOS_XEO_2650&hidos=WNET&hidlang=en&TabIndex=
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