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Offline ssysmTopic starter

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Tektronix TDS7104 No Waveform on screen
« on: November 22, 2018, 08:39:54 pm »
Just got my self a tds7104 off from ebay. Came in with a dead NVRAM battery, I replaced and set the vxworks boot parameters. The scope application is now able to start but there are no waveform on screen(just a black screen), but it pass self calibration and self diagnostics, snapshot seem to be working and I can calibrate my probe with it.

Does anyone know what kinds of issue is related with my scope? Perhaps it's something wrong with the video card driver?

thanks in advance

I attached some image of the scope applications.
 

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Re: Tektronix TDS7104 No Waveform on screen
« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2019, 11:51:27 pm »
Had the same problem using win 2000pro,
upgraded to XPpro and updated to tecscope2.5.5
and it's fixed

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Re: Tektronix TDS7104 No Waveform on screen
« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2019, 12:35:47 am »
Does it work with external monitor?

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Re: Tektronix TDS7104 No Waveform on screen
« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2019, 11:07:42 am »
I'll bet it's the video driver for the Chips and Technology video chip.
Make sure that the driver is owned by Asiliant and not Microsoft
The correct driver is in \Tektronix\video.
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Re: Tektronix TDS7104 No Waveform on screen
« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2019, 02:58:35 pm »
Yup, wrong video driver, must use one from Tektronix.
They way these scopes work - PPC acq board writes waveform "data" into videocard frame buffer memory , and then PC side will use that memory to plot to image "overlay".
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