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The Rigol DS1052E
saturation:
I'm sorry to hear of this, this is what I fear can happen albeit its not been the majority of reports. I hope there is a solution to this problem.
I've set up a poll to find out how many have done the mod and succeeded, not done the mod, done the mod nothing happened, finally done the mod and lost the scope's functionality.
Mechatrommer:
--- Quote from: saturation on June 29, 2010, 11:35:28 pm ---I've set up a poll to find out how many have done the mod and succeeded, not done the mod, done the mod nothing happened, finally done the mod and lost the scope's functionality.
--- End quote ---
i'm not in the list. i've done the mod partially succesful... and partially lost the functionality. partially means... some bad... and some still good :)
@halman... i think there are 3 ways i can suggest:
1) find out yourself if there is a way to re-flash without poking the hardware out, i've searched and found nothing. next move... is yours :) tell us if you've found out.
2) poke out the flash, re-program it parallely
3) sneak into rigol company, ask the good engineer inside, on how to do it.
I might suggest the 4th, but... maybe that isnt friendly... buy another one and dont do the mod whatsoever. Cheers!
beerhunter:
The biggest problem I had was getting the RS232 port to talk to the Rigol. I tried the USB adapter and gave up after a week of frustration. My old IBM laptop with a real 232 port refused to work also even though it
works programming a few radios I have.
I finally discovered that my old P4 downstairs has two 232 ports and worked just fine to upgrade it to a 100 Mhz. scope. I also got my scope from Tequipment and I wonder if I trashed my warranty with the hack.
Anybody know if its possible to upload the firmware from a 2.04.01 scope and get it on a USB stick? I have searched far and wide to find the FW with the help files to no avail.
Mechatrommer:
halman... u ar better than i am since you have access to the programmer. if i have it, i'll poke the spansion out... carefully, read the content and compare with the firmware file *.rgl and make some necessary mod/hack. i wish u could read the content and publish here... i can give my "free" service to analyze it ;P. there must be still some usefull data inside to do the matching. we can re-modify it, and repair yours, and... i can find the location for the calibration data... to repair mine :)
beerhunter:
"It must have been an incomplete flash. I inserted an usb stick with the firmware and ran it from the menu system, once it was done I restarted the scope, it was then it refused to start up properly. Strange things go on with the button lights they light up randomly and if i do quick restarts they move...it looks kinda like a counter is incrementing."
Halman, what if someone was to send you a working USB stick that was known to work fine and try to re flash your firmware? Seems to me that two possibilities are present. One, your USB stick is trashed. Two,the copy of the FW from your computer to the USB stick is trashed.
I think this might work cuz' sometime in the manufacturing process the CPU memory is a clean slate and someone has to flash the FW into the system.
Where do you live? If in the states a whole bunch of us has done the upgrade and still might have the stick handy with the 2.04 FW on it.
(EDIT) Dang it! I just checked my stick and its blank, sorry.
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