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Agilent 54835A scope (4 channel 1GHz / 4Gs/s) repair & uphack
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alpher:

--- Quote from: Converter on January 22, 2018, 10:02:40 pm ---
--- Quote from: nctnico on January 22, 2018, 09:27:53 pm ---My motherboard is the original VA503-A Super Socket 7 motherboard but I now realise that you must have changed the motherboard.

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Yes, as I wrote in this thread, I installed the ZIDA TomatoBoard ZX98-CT motherboard (for Socket 370) and it was immediately successful with the HP54845A (with the Coppermine processor). It took only a little effort to translate it into a Tualatin processor. These Baby-AT motherboards today are very cheap, so it makes sense to buy and install them. I buy them in my region for only $4-6.
I also got the motherboard PC Partner BSBS3-T871B http://support.pcpartner.com/support/bios/i810.htm (see attached photo). It has a newer intelĀ® 810 series chipsets. This is better than chipset Intel 443BX/ZX in that it supports IDE Ultra DMA4-66 (and not only DMA2-33).

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Hi , could you explain how exactly did you install the HP software on it?
Let's say that I've replaced motherboard, installed a fresh copy of windows98 on it, how do I get to install the HP scope software and drivers.
Can they somehow be extracted from the recovery image that's on the net?
Converter:
Hello alpher,

Programs can be installed using the file manager - "Explorer", which is located under the "Start" button. Just add a keyboard and mouse. In the same place you can find access to system functions.
If necessary, close Agilent program "CTRL" + "F4".

How to activate the desktop Windows I wrote in this post:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/agilent-54835a-scope-(4-channel-1ghz-4gss)-repair-uphack/msg1385393/#msg1385393
But it seemed to me that no one expressed interest in this information.
alpher:
Hi Converter, thatks for replying.
I've allready installed a fresh copy of windows 98 on a fresh CF card, have keyboard and mouse hooked up, as well as CD drive.
No problems accesing file manager at all since this is a standard retail version of win98,.
My question was, how do I install HP scope software ?
Maybe not so much how, more how to get the instal files, how do you extract them from the recovery image?
Or I'm I completely wrong here and you have to start from original HP recovery image?
Will it install properly on a completely different motherboard (810 chipst )?
Could you clarify it for me?
Much appreciated.
Tony_G:
The recovery image is just a Ghost image and I don't think there is any HW fingerprinting prior to install. If you get the Win98 drivers for the board then I'd image you'd be able to install the image and then just update the drivers.  If you want to start with you're Win98 image then you could try extracting the various *.inf files from the Ghost image (if you have Ghost, if not then maybe installing the image to a VM?) and search through them for the matching HW IDs and driver files.

Personally I'd just reinstall the recovery image and go from there though.

TonyG
Converter:
I think that there is no installation package for the HP oscilloscope program for the old HP 54810-54825/HP 54835-54846 series. In any case, I have never seen a separate installation package for this program. There are only a few versions of the disk image where this program is already integrated into Windows and there are small packages for updating its version.

I assume that absolutely any model of the motherboard that supports Windows 98 (since no one has yet been able to adapt Windows XP) and which you can fit inside the case can be used here. Motherboard drivers you can add separately after deploying a disk image.
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