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7-6-5-4 Control Frame Contains the user interface elements used for:
• Diagnostic control
• Operator feedback
a.) Execute ButtonThis button has two modes - each with appropriate text:
* Execute - to start the diagnostic, and
* Abort - to stop a diagnostic
b.) Loop Count This is an editable text field th at will only accept numeric values with 4 digits or less. When the 
button...

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7-6-5-4      Control Frame (cont’d) Examine the log in the status frame to find  the test(s) that failed. (In the example in Figure 7-33, all the 
tests failed.)
Figure 7-33   User Interface Diagnostic Screen,  Test All Failed 

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7-6-5-4      Control Frame (cont’d) In Figure 7-34 , the test passed. The green background color in the Control Frame indicates that the test 
passed.
7-6-5-5 Common Diagnostics  See: Section 7-7 Common Diagnostics on page 7-48.Figure 7-34   User Interface Diagnostic Screen, 
Test All Passed 

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7-6-6 Image Quality
Field is not populated. Figure 7-35   Image Quality Page 

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7-6-7 Calibration
This screen gives you access to:
• DC Offset calibration
• Reset DC-Offset cal (calibration) Figure 7-36   Calibration 

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7-6-7-1 DC Offset Calibration DC Offset calibration also called “Beamformer Calibra tion” or “Front-End Alignment” is performed to 
calibrate each ADC channel of the two Beamformer  (BF) board inputs. The system calibrates the 
Beamformer ADCs to zero output when there is no signal on the input.
These bias voltages are stored on  hard disk in Back-End Processor. 
You can either access  DC...

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7-6-8 Configuration
Use the Configuration Screen to add or edit Software Options Strings, alphanumeric strings to 
enable Software Options (the password(s) used for enabling optional functions).  Figure 7-38   Configuration Page 

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7-6-9 Utilities
The Utilities page contains  several miscellaneous tools:
• Windows 2000 Utilities
- Disk Usage
- IP Configuration
- Network Status
- Windows 2000 Services
- User Accounts
- Shared Resources
- System Shutdown
- Disk Defragmenter
• Scanner Utilities
- System Shutdown
- Set Debug Utility
- Reset Database
- Clean Userdefs
- Resource File Utility
• iLink Configuration Utility
•...

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7-6-9-1 Windows 2000 Utilities
Disk Usage
The Disk Usage page displays an ov erview of Vivid 7’s disk usage.
Figure 7-40   Disk Usage 

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7-6-9-1      Windows 2000 Utilities (cont’d)
IP Configuration
The IP Configuration page gives you an overview of  Vivid 7’s Internet Protocol (IP) configuration.
Figure 7-41   IP Configuration