JPH096642A - Device diagnosis control system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To secure the reliability by automatically performing detailed diagnosis to prevent the operation abnormality of a device. CONSTITUTION: A simple diagnosis means 1 is started at the time of the start of the device and simply diagnoses and outputs contents for a defective state or a simple diagnosis end signal 10 for a good state. A start condition update means 22 receives the simple diagnosis end signal 10 to update the start condition stored in a storage means 21 and outputs an update end signal 11. A start frequency and interval discrimination means 23 receives the update end signal 11 to check the contents of the start condition stored in the storage means 21 and outputs a detailed diagnosis execution signal 12 or a detailed diagnosis non-execution signal 13. A detailed diagnosis means 3 diagnoses the device in details when receiving the detailed diagnosis execution signal 12 but transfers the control to the normal operation of the device when receiving the detailed diagnosis non-execution signal 13. A display means 4 receives contents of defects outputted from the simple diagnosis means 1 and the detailed diagnosis means 3 to display them.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a diagnostic control system for a device, and more particularly to a diagnostic control system for a device which is carried out at the time of startup of a device such as an information processing device typified by a personal computer.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A device such as an information processing device performs data processing by using various hardware resources such as a CPU, a memory, and a hard disk device, which are components of the device. If an error occurs during normal operation of the equipment, it is necessary to perform abnormal processing, restore the normal state, and then perform the above-mentioned data processing again, so a large amount of time is wasted when there is a large amount of data or complicated processing. Will be done. In the worst case, valuable data may be destroyed. For this reason, this type of device
By diagnosing the constituent elements of the device when the device is started up when the power is input or when the hardware is reset, abnormalities occurring during normal operation of the device are prevented.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing an example of a conventional diagnostic control system for a device. The system shown in the figure comprises a simple diagnosis means 1 and a display means 4. The simple diagnosis means 1 is started by inputting power to the device or by performing a hardware reset after inputting power, and is simple with respect to basic elements such as a CPU, a memory, an input / output register, etc., which configure the device. Diagnostics. That is,
For a CPU, data of a typical pattern (for example, 5
5H) is read / written, and a simple diagnosis is similarly performed for a memory, an input / output register, etc. by similarly performing a read / write test of typical pattern data (eg, FFH, 00H). Further, the simple diagnosis means 1 examines this diagnosis result, and when the result shows a good result, the control is passed to the normal operation of the device, and when the result shows a defect, the display data indicating the content of the defect is outputted. Then, the display means 4 receives and displays it, and then the simple diagnosis means 1 stops the device.

[0004]

The above-mentioned conventional diagnostic control system for a device performs only the simple diagnosis at the time of starting the device, and therefore the basic elements constituting the device are diagnosed. Since the number of data patterns used for is small and fixed, it is not possible to sufficiently guarantee the reliability of the basic elements constituting the device. Further, a more detailed diagnosis of the basic elements constituting the device, such as a diagnosis of auxiliary elements such as a hard disk device constituting the device and a simple diagnosis, is performed when a predetermined maintenance time comes. We ask an expert to do so, and if an abnormal operation of the equipment occurs before the maintenance time comes, in the worst case there is a problem that valuable data will be destroyed, etc. I was worried.

The object of the present invention is to eliminate the above-mentioned conventional drawbacks, and therefore, to provide a diagnostic control system for a device, which enables detailed diagnosis without the intervention of an expert and which can prevent abnormal operation of the device and guarantee the reliability sufficiently. To provide.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The diagnostic control system for an apparatus according to the present invention is started at the time of starting up the apparatus and simply diagnoses the basic elements constituting this apparatus. Simple diagnostic means for outputting display data indicating the contents of the defect, stopping the device, and outputting a simple diagnostic end signal when the diagnostic result shows good; And a startup time interval indicating the startup time interval, and a detailed diagnosis execution signal for instructing detailed diagnosis if at least one of the number of startups and the startup time interval is larger than a predetermined value. And a detailed diagnosis determining means for outputting a detailed diagnosis non-execution signal for instructing not to perform detailed diagnosis when neither the number of startups nor the startup time interval is larger than a predetermined value. When the detailed diagnosis execution signal is received from the detailed diagnosis determining means, detailed diagnosis is performed on the auxiliary elements forming the device and the basic elements forming the device diagnosed by the simple diagnosis means. If this diagnostic result indicates a defect, display data indicating the content of the defect is output, and if this defect content indicates a basic element constituting the device, the device is stopped and the defect content indicates the device. Control is passed to the normal operation of the device if it does not show the basic elements constituting the device, and control is passed to the normal operation of the device if the result of the detailed diagnosis shows a good result, and the detailed diagnosis determination means is used to Detailed diagnosis means for passing control to the normal operation of the apparatus when a detailed diagnosis non-execution signal is received; display means for receiving and displaying display data output from the simple diagnosis means and the detailed diagnosis means ; Is configured to include a.

Further, the detailed diagnosis determining means of the apparatus diagnostic control system of the present invention comprises the number of times the apparatus is started up, the time and date when this apparatus was last started up, and the time and date when this apparatus was started up this time. Storage means having a storage area 1, a storage area 2 and a storage area 3 respectively storing; and the start-up stored in the storage area 1 of the storage means upon receiving the simple diagnosis end signal from the simple diagnosis means. The number of times of reading is read and incremented, stored in this storage area 1, and the current start-up time and date stored in the storage area 3 are copied to the storage area 2 for storing the previous start-up time and date. The storage area 3 indicates the time and date when the device is started up this time.
A start-up status updating means for storing and storing an update end signal; and receiving the update end signal, reading the number of times of start-up stored in the storage area 1 and comparing this with a predetermined value, If the number of startups is larger, the storage area 1 is cleared to 0 and a detailed diagnosis execution signal is output.
If the number of startups is not greater, the previous startup time and date and the current startup time and date are read from the storage means, and the startup time interval of the device is calculated from them. If the result is larger than a predetermined value, a detailed diagnosis execution signal is output, and if the calculation result of the start-up time interval is not larger than the predetermined value, a detailed diagnosis is instructed not to perform a detailed diagnosis. And a rising frequency / interval determining means for outputting an execution signal.

[0008]

Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the diagnostic control system of the apparatus of the present invention. The system shown in FIG. 1 is started when the device is started up, and the device is simply diagnosed. If the result shows a failure, the display data 14 showing the content is output, and if the diagnosis result shows a good result, the system is simple. A simple diagnosis means 1 for outputting a diagnosis end signal 10, and a detailed diagnosis determination means for receiving the simple diagnosis end signal 10 and checking the state at the time of starting the apparatus to output a detailed diagnosis execution signal 12 or a detailed diagnosis non-execution signal 13. 2 and the detailed diagnosis execution signal 12 from the detailed diagnosis determining means 2, the device is diagnosed in detail, and if the result shows a failure, the display data 15 showing the content is output to output the detailed diagnosis. When the detailed diagnosis non-execution signal 13 is received from the deciding means 2, the detailed diagnosing means 3 for passing control to the normal operation of the device, the simple diagnosing means 1 and the detailed diagnosing means 3 are output respectively. And a display unit 4 for displaying them receiving the display data 14 and the display data 15. The detailed diagnosis determination means 2 is a storage means 21 that stores the startup status of the device.
And the simple diagnostic end signal 10 from the simple diagnostic means 1
In response to this, the startup status updating means 22 that updates the startup status stored in the storage means 21 and outputs an update end signal 11, and the storage means 2 that receives the update end signal 11
The number of startups / interval determining means 23 for checking the details of the startup status stored in 1 and outputting the detailed diagnosis execution signal 12 or the detailed diagnosis non-execution signal 13 is provided.

Next, the operation of the diagnostic control system of the apparatus of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing an example of the operation of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the construction of the storage means 21, in which the number of startups of the device, the time and date when the device was last booted, and the time and date when the device was booted this time are storage areas. 1 and storage area 2 and storage area 3 respectively.

Referring to FIG. 2, the simple diagnosis means 1
Is activated by inputting power to the device or by performing a hardware reset after the power is input, and performs simple diagnosis on basic elements such as a CPU, a memory, an input / output register, etc., which configure the device. . That is, CP
For U, the data of a typical pattern (for example, 55
(H) is read / written, and a simple diagnosis is also performed for the memory, the input / output register, etc. in the same manner as the read / write test of typical pattern data (for example, FFH, 00H) ( S1). Next, the simple diagnosis means 1 checks this diagnosis result (S2), outputs a simple diagnosis end signal 10 if this result shows good (S3), and the result checked in step 2 (S2) is If it indicates a defect, the display data 14 indicating the defect content is output (S4), and the display means 4 receives and displays it (S5).
Subsequently, the simple diagnosis means 1 stops the device (S6). The startup status updating means 22 receives the simple diagnosis end signal 10 from the simple diagnostic means 1 and reads the number of startups stored in the storage area 1 of the storage means 21 and increments it to increase this storage area. 1 and copy the current start-up time and date stored in the storage area 3 to the storage area 2 that stores the previous start-up time and date, and the time and date when the device was started up this time. The attachment is stored in the storage area 3 and the update end signal 11 is output (S7). Number of startups
The interval determination means 23 receives the update end signal 11 and
The number of times of startup stored in the storage area 1 is read and compared with a predetermined value (S8), the comparison result is checked (S9), and the result of this check is that the number of times of startup is larger. If it is not indicated, the previous start-up time and date and the current start-up time and date are read from the storage areas 2 and 3 of the storage means 21, and the difference between them is calculated to calculate the difference. The start-up time interval is calculated and the result is compared with a predetermined value (S10), the comparison result is checked (S11), and it is confirmed that the calculated start-up time interval is not larger than the calculated start-up time interval. Detailed diagnosis non-execution signal 1 which gives an instruction not to perform detailed diagnosis if indicated
3 is output (S12). Continuing, if the result of checking in step 9 (S9) indicates that the number of startups is larger, the startup number / interval determination means 23 clears the storage area 1 for storing the number of startups to 0. (S1
3), detailed diagnosis execution signal 1 for instructing detailed diagnosis
2 is output (S14), and step 11 (S11)
Similarly, when the result of the examination shows that the start-up time interval is longer, the detailed diagnosis execution signal 12 is output (S14). The detailed diagnosis means 3 receives the signal output from the number-of-start-up / interval determination means 23, and the signal is either the detailed diagnosis execution signal 12 or the detailed diagnosis non-execution signal 1.
3 is checked (S15), and when the checked result shows the detailed diagnosis execution signal 12, the basic elements constituting the auxiliary device constituting the device and the device diagnosed by the simple diagnosis means 1 Perform detailed diagnostics on elements and. That is, the CPU register, the memory, the input / output register, etc. are subjected to a test of reading / writing various kinds of complicated pattern data, and the hard disk device, the floppy disk device, etc. have the same medium as well. A detailed diagnosis is performed by performing a read / write test on various kinds of complicated pattern data (S16). Next, the diagnosis result is examined (S17), and if the result shows a defect, the display data 15 indicating the content of the defect is output (S18),
The display means 4 receives and displays it (S19), and then the detailed diagnosis means 3 checks whether or not the defect content is a basic element constituting the device (S20), and the result is basically If the element indicates a certain element, the apparatus is stopped (S2
1) If the basic elements are not shown, control is passed to normal operation of the device. Further, the detailed diagnosis means 3 operates the device normally when the result checked in step 15 (S15) shows the detailed diagnosis non-execution signal 13 and when the result checked in step 17 (S17) shows good. Pass control to.

[0014]

As described above, according to the diagnostic control system for an apparatus of the present invention, the number of times the apparatus is started up and the startup time interval are checked when the apparatus is started up, and the number of startups is a predetermined number of times. When it becomes larger or when the start-up time interval becomes longer than a predetermined time, detailed diagnostics of the device are automatically performed, so detailed diagnostics of the device can be performed without the intervention of an expert, and Since a detailed diagnosis is made for the basic elements and the auxiliary elements that are constituted by various kinds of complicated pattern data, it is possible to prevent an abnormal operation of the apparatus and sufficiently guarantee the reliability.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a diagnostic control system of an apparatus of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an example of the operation of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a configuration of a storage unit 21.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing an example of a conventional diagnostic control system of a device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 simple diagnosis means 2 detailed diagnosis determination means 3 detailed diagnosis means 4 display means 10 simple diagnosis end signal 11 update end signal 12 detailed diagnosis execution signal 13 detailed diagnosis non-execution signal 14, 15 display data 21 storage means 22 startup status update means 23 Number of startups / interval determination means

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. When the apparatus is started up, the basic elements constituting the apparatus are simply diagnosed, and if the result of the diagnosis indicates a failure, display data indicating the content of the failure is output and the apparatus is stopped. And a simple diagnosing means for outputting a simple diagnostic end signal when the diagnostic result shows good; at least a startup condition for receiving the simple diagnostic end signal and indicating the number of startups and the startup time interval of the device is examined. When either one of the number of startups and the startup time interval is larger than a predetermined value, a detailed diagnosis execution signal for instructing detailed diagnosis is output, and the number of startups and the startup time interval Detailed diagnosis determining means for outputting a detailed diagnosis non-execution signal for instructing not to perform detailed diagnosis if none of them is larger than a predetermined value; If received, perform a detailed diagnosis on the auxiliary elements that make up the device and the basic elements that make up the device diagnosed by the simple diagnosis means,
When this diagnostic result indicates a defect, display data indicating the defect content is output, and when the defect content indicates a basic element that constitutes the device, the device is stopped and the defect content constitutes the device. Control is passed to the normal operation of the device when no specific element is indicated, and control is passed to the normal operation of the device when the result of the detailed diagnosis shows a good result, and the detailed diagnosis determination means determines the detailed diagnosis error. A detailed diagnostic means for transferring control to the normal operation of the device when receiving an execution signal; and a display means for receiving and displaying the display data output from the simple diagnostic means and the detailed diagnostic means. A diagnostic control method for an apparatus, which is characterized in that 2. The detailed diagnosis determining means includes a storage area 1 for storing the number of startups of the device, the time and date when the device was last booted, and the time and date when the device was booted this time. Storage means having a storage area 2 and a storage area 3; receiving the simple diagnosis end signal from the simple diagnosis means, reading the number of startups stored in the storage area 1 of the storage means, and incrementing it The time when the device is started up this time by copying the current startup time and date stored in the storage area 1 and stored in the storage area 3 to the storage area 2 which stores the previous startup time and date. And startup status updating means for storing the date and the date in the storage area 3 and outputting an update end signal; The number of startups is read and compared with a predetermined value. When the number of startups is larger, the storage area 1 is cleared to 0, a detailed diagnosis execution signal is output, and this startup is performed. If the number of times is not larger, the previous start-up time and date and the current start-up time and date are read from the storage means, respectively, and the start-up time interval of the device is calculated from these, and this result is stored in advance. When it is larger than a predetermined value, a detailed diagnosis execution signal is output, and when the calculation result of the start-up time interval is not larger than a predetermined value, a detailed diagnosis non-execution signal for instructing not to perform detailed diagnosis is output. 2. The number of startups / interval determination means for outputting;
Diagnostic control method for the described device.