It's always nice upgrading an old instrument and making it faster and nicer to use. I upgraded the mobo / cpu (p4 to c2d) / ram (500mb to 4gig) / hdd=>ssd / os (win xp to win 7) in a Agilent logic analyzer, and it went from painful to use, to a pleasure to use! Feels like a modern instrument now!
Yep nice when faster definitely made a difference. I would love to upgrade the motherboard on this one and update OS to windows 7, but has a custom Bios and drivers to communicate with the oscilloscope Acquisition board so it can use the video and hard drive. I tried using updated drivers and crashed the oscilloscope only the Tektronix drivers work. Do have a good condition 1.5Ghz HP/Agilent oscilloscope coming soon that bought off surplus likely going to replace it soon as well as the matching logic analyzer. The analyzer works and the scope works but doesn’t pass self test but kind of have an idea of the issues as fix that issue with several of those models before. Hopefully a low hour but will see but screen nice and bright and HD works and calibrated stickers still intact.
Just to clarify the title of the video -- this scope is the TDS5034B not TDS5034. The non-B version has a totally different motherboard and I don't think it supports SATA at all.
Yes you are correct even though some non-B uses the socket 478 which did have sata as well. They used a few different main boards on theses depending on year. Even with same model.
I'm guessing replacing the whole mobo with something "a little" more energy efficient than a P4 but still having PCI slots isn't an option? edit: also I have no idea why this was on the YT frontpage for me O_o
Nope as Tektronix uses a custom bios on these boards to communicate with the acquisition board, it not just having a board with PCI slot unfortunately, If I could would have definitely upgraded the motherboard and CPU to something way more efficient. You can’t even flash the board with an Intel updated bios it won’t work already tried. Tektronix has it own flash tool and bios for the motherboard and drivers are custom. You can’t even update the drivers. The OS the latest you can do and drivers will work is 2000, or XP.
The motherboard bios is custom to work with the oscilloscope board, same as the drivers. People have successfully managed to upgrade board but was straight forward and highest OS that would work was XP, with custom drivers. I ended up selling the oscilloscope and going with a Rigol dho4804 which is better preforming as far as noise and overall performance, as deal with switch mode supplies and restoring audio gear and needed something to replace my analog and digital oscilloscope for more bench space and does the job great.
It's always nice upgrading an old instrument and making it faster and nicer to use. I upgraded the mobo / cpu (p4 to c2d) / ram (500mb to 4gig) / hdd=>ssd / os (win xp to win 7) in a Agilent logic analyzer, and it went from painful to use, to a pleasure to use! Feels like a modern instrument now!
Yep nice when faster definitely made a difference. I would love to upgrade the motherboard on this one and update OS to windows 7, but has a custom Bios and drivers to communicate with the oscilloscope Acquisition board so it can use the video and hard drive. I tried using updated drivers and crashed the oscilloscope only the Tektronix drivers work. Do have a good condition 1.5Ghz HP/Agilent oscilloscope coming soon that bought off surplus likely going to replace it soon as well as the matching logic analyzer. The analyzer works and the scope works but doesn’t pass self test but kind of have an idea of the issues as fix that issue with several of those models before. Hopefully a low hour but will see but screen nice and bright and HD works and calibrated stickers still intact.
Just to clarify the title of the video -- this scope is the TDS5034B not TDS5034. The non-B version has a totally different motherboard and I don't think it supports SATA at all.
Yes you are correct even though some non-B uses the socket 478 which did have sata as well. They used a few different main boards on theses depending on year. Even with same model.
I'm guessing replacing the whole mobo with something "a little" more energy efficient than a P4 but still having PCI slots isn't an option?
edit: also I have no idea why this was on the YT frontpage for me O_o
Nope as Tektronix uses a custom bios on these boards to communicate with the acquisition board, it not just having a board with PCI slot unfortunately, If I could would have definitely upgraded the motherboard and CPU to something way more efficient. You can’t even flash the board with an Intel updated bios it won’t work already tried. Tektronix has it own flash tool and bios for the motherboard and drivers are custom. You can’t even update the drivers. The OS the latest you can do and drivers will work is 2000, or XP.
Would it be possible to put a pc motherboard that’s a little more modern or would the oscilloscope hardware not be compatible?
The motherboard bios is custom to work with the oscilloscope board, same as the drivers. People have successfully managed to upgrade board but was straight forward and highest OS that would work was XP, with custom drivers.
I ended up selling the oscilloscope and going with a Rigol dho4804 which is better preforming as far as noise and overall performance, as deal with switch mode supplies and restoring audio gear and needed something to replace my analog and digital oscilloscope for more bench space and does the job great.