PowerEdge: How To Run Diagnostics on the Processor When The System Performance is Slow
Summary: This article details the process for running a diagnostic on your processor when experiencing slow performance.
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Instructions
The Intel Processor Diagnostic Tool performs tests on Intel CPUs and provides detailed results about its health status.
Note: If c-states or c1e-states in BIOS enabled, this can cause a couple of false positives. The tool reports when the processor is running too slowly, but this is only caused by the c-states. In this case, turn them off and run it again.
Diagnostics can be run on the Processor using the Intel Processor Diagnostic Tool
Download the Intel Processor Diagnostic Tool, run the file, while connected to the Internet as it downloads components which are required to run the test.
The test usually takes a few minutes depending on the successful download of all components.
The below screen: While running the test
The below screen is displayed once the test passes.
