QC Howto

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Contents 1 Introduction 2 Before Beginning 3 Visual Inspection 4 Internal Inspection 5 Booting up 6 Verify the Specs 7 Sanity Testing 8 Stress Test 9 FGQC Testing 10 See Also

Introduction

This page is meant to document the process of checking a box built at Build.

Before Beginning

1. Grab a box and the accompanying build sheet.
2. Mark your name and volunteer number in the appropriate space

Visual Inspection

1. Check for the presence of
   • All the case side panels
   • Motherboard backplate (The one that surrounds the ports on the back)
   • Plates for unfilled front drive spaces
   • The appropriate number and types of optical drives
   • Unless directed otherwise, check for the presence of USB, ps/2, and ethernet ports

Internal Inspection

1. Open the case
2. Check for blown capacitors (See Checking for Bad Capacitors)
3. Check that all the drives are plugged in

Booting up

1. Plug in keyboard, mouse, video, and power, and speakers
2. Turn machine on
   • Expected result: Machine passes POST and boots to Ubuntu session manager
3. At the login screen, login as user:oem, pass:oem
   • Expected result: A desktop session should start and play a sound

Verify the Specs

1. Open a terminal (Applications>Accessories>Terminal)
2. Enter the command cat /proc/cpuinfo to display CPU information. Note the processor speed.
3. Enter the command free -m to display information about the RAM. Note the memory size.
4. Enter the command df -h to display information about mounted hard drive partitions. Note the capacity of sda1.

Sanity Testing

1. Plug in a network cable
2. Open firefox and go to freegeekvancouver.org
3. Insert a test disc of an appropriate format in each of the optical drives. (Ask a staff member if you need some)
4. Open Places>Computer
5. Plug in a USB drive.
   • Expected Result: A new icon should appear in "Computer"
6. Double click on the icon
   • Expected result: The media should become mounted and readable.
   • If you can't read it, note BADUSB and continue
7. If there is a floppy disk drive, repeat the previous 2 steps with a floppy disc
   • If the floppy can't be read, not BADFLOPPY and continue
   • Go to System>Preferences>Sound
8. Play a test tone
   • If you can't hear it, note BADAUDIO and continue
9. Plug in a microphone
10. Go to Applications>Sound Recorder
11. Record a sample of your voice.
12. Play it back
    • If you cannot play it back, note BADRECORD and continue

Stress Test

1. Reboot the machine
2. Hit escape at the grub prompt
3. Run memtest for a while

FGQC Testing

1. Reboot the machine and boot back into Ubuntu
2. Open a terminal
3. Enter the command fgqc or alternatively, the following sequence of commands:
   1. wget http://hemlock/linux/preseed/fgqc
   2. sudo sh ./fgqc
4. To be continued...?

See Also

qcpdxstyle for information on how FG Portland does things