Were you just in some part of the Service menu ?
For a TDS2k from the Service manual:
1. Power on the oscilloscope.
2. Push the front-panel MEASURE button to access the MEASURE menu.
3. Push the top option button to access the Measure 1 menu.
Were you just in some part of the Service menu ?
For a TDS2k from the Service manual:
1. Power on the oscilloscope.
2. Push the front-panel MEASURE button to access the MEASURE menu.
3. Push the top option button to access the Measure 1 menu.
At step 3, the TDS3K top menu button is "snapshot all measurements" I continued on anyway, but no service menu.
If this was a service menu, odd that it would survive a power cycle.
Thanks, but I don't want to take a chance of losing the factory calibration.
Thanks, but I don't want to take a chance of losing the factory calibration.I remember once diving into my TDS2012B service menu and the 'adjustment' is just one part of the service menu.
A smart guy like you wouldn't be changing anything.
Maybe with the Cal switch left OFF you can still enter the menus and just have a look around for the 'hidden' menu you were in.
Thanks, but I don't want to take a chance of losing the factory calibration.I remember once diving into my TDS2012B service menu and the 'adjustment' is just one part of the service menu.
A smart guy like you wouldn't be changing anything.
Maybe with the Cal switch left OFF you can still enter the menus and just have a look around for the 'hidden' menu you were in.
Jwalling, did you ever find out what that developer menu was and how to enable it again?
My TDS3054B also came with a developer menu and while playing with it (not changing anything like DAC gain etc...) I managed to
disable it and now it does not appear anymore. I was wondering how it can be activated again...I didn't get to see all the things that it can control...
OK, you talked me into it. I booted up with the cal button pressed in. I can now enter the factory calibration menu, but I don't see those weird menus anywhere, nor does the scope show that pacmanBuildView on boot-up.
Anyone here knows how to extract the actual firmware file ?? (and/or would have one, version doesn't matter much).
I'm not too bad with PowerPC assembler, would really like to dig into this to find out how to activate that mode... but don't wanna spend hours trying to figure out how to extract/reconstruct the actual image from the 3-4 floppies (not even sure a still have a working floppy btw...)
In fact, the info was already available in another thread...
(although without mentioning the 'PacmanBuildView' that appears in the version popup)
Press the 'Select' button while powering it on, for quite a while, until it's completely started.
That brings new (and relatively self-explanatory) items in the Utility menus.
Have fun !
In fact, the info was already available in another thread...
(although without mentioning the 'PacmanBuildView' that appears in the version popup)
Press the 'Select' button while powering it on, for quite a while, until it's completely started.
That brings new (and relatively self-explanatory) items in the Utility menus.
Have fun !
Nice! I wonder how much you can screw up the scope with this...
In fact, the info was already available in another thread...
(although without mentioning the 'PacmanBuildView' that appears in the version popup)
Press the 'Select' button while powering it on, for quite a while, until it's completely started.
That brings new (and relatively self-explanatory) items in the Utility menus.
Have fun !
Nice! I wonder how much you can screw up the scope with this...
and to exit (Dev mode is persistent), found no other way than Utility -> Devel -> Dink SW -> Misc -> Devel Init
IIRC, that will reset to zero the No of power ups and operating hours. It was a while back but I think that's what happened to mine
IIRC, that will reset to zero the No of power ups and operating hours. It was a while back but I think that's what happened to mine
Yes, it does... pretty annoying !!!
But I couldn't find any other way to get rid of the Dev mode...
on the other hand, if it's for your own use, who cares ? You can either leave it in DEV mode forever, or just ignore that you'll have the counters wiped...
And in most of these good old boys, the NVRAM should be replaced anyway, time for a backup before playing around. ;-