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Agilent LA 16803a - how to best configure (upgrades etc) ?

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Myriad79,

From this thread it appears you were able to upgrade a 16803A (or 16802A) from XP to Win7K and install the LA software onto an SSD drive.
Is there a thread that documents the help you received from user RAQU_PL?

I'm looking to upgrade my 16803A running XP to Win7K and install the latest LA software.

THanks,
Victor

coromonadalix:

--- Quote from: Myriad79 on December 22, 2023, 02:36:27 pm ---@ahakman This is some very valuable info. I've been trying to upgrade a 16802A from WinXP to Win7 myself (after successfully having installed some Pentium D Dual Core, 4GB of RAM and a SSD drive).
The Windows 7 installation as such ran through without issues but I'm having trouble installing the LA software onto it. So far I was justable to retreive either the old 3.67 and last 5.90 from the Keysight website.
The 5.90 installation will fail at some point when "verifying hard drive image" - do you know what is missing here? I already tried changing my Windows manufacturer name to match the values on the previous XP installation but so far without luck.

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Would you mind sharing where/how you've been able to find other versions of the software such as 4.00, 4.40, 5.40 and 5.60?

Thanks in advance!

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could it be   it search for a safeguard partition ??  with an known backup file ??  as anyone checked for more partitions ?

putting x64  system could be good or bad  if you can not go over 4gb of ram,  yes  you want to get 4gb,  but the x64  kernel operate differently  ...   better put 32 bit os, and give more ram if possible to the video ...  sometime in bios you can "up" the value

gslick:

--- Quote from: Myriad79 on December 22, 2023, 02:36:27 pm ---@ahakman This is some very valuable info. I've been trying to upgrade a 16802A from WinXP to Win7 myself (after successfully having installed some Pentium D Dual Core, 4GB of RAM and a SSD drive).
The Windows 7 installation as such ran through without issues but I'm having trouble installing the LA software onto it. So far I was justable to retreive either the old 3.67 and last 5.90 from the Keysight website.
The 5.90 installation will fail at some point when "verifying hard drive image" - do you know what is missing here? I already tried changing my Windows manufacturer name to match the values on the previous XP installation but so far without luck.

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One bit of information which might be useful. I ran into the "Verifying hard drive image" step failure when trying to install the LA application software version 5.90.1104 on a D915GUX motherboard 16901A which had the hard drive restored from a 168xxA Windows XP DVD recovery image. I was using the 168xxA Intel D915GUX 16800-14102 recovery image because I have been unable to locate a copy of the 16901A Intel D915GUX 16901-14101 recovery image.

After restoring the hard drive from the patched1 16800-14102 168xxA Windows XP DVD recovery image on the 16901A, and before installing any other components, the registry contained this:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\AgMachineInfo]
"Ag16800Standalone"=dword:00000001

I renamed that registry value to this before installing anything else:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\AgMachineInfo]
"Ag16900Standalone"=dword:00000001

Then after installing all of the prerequisites, the 05.90.1104 version of the LA application installation completed without any issues, and then the registry had been updated to contains these values:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\AgMachineInfo]
"Ag16900Standalone"=dword:00000001
"SysReady"=dword:00000001
"NoDisplaySwitching"="true"
"FrameModelNumber"="16901A"


So from that, it appears that before installing LA application software version 5.90.1104 on a Windows installation, the registry key "[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\AgMachineInfo]" must contain either an "Ag16800Standalone"=dword:00000001 value or an "Ag16900Standalone"=dword:00000001 value, as appropriate, or the "Verifying hard drive image" step failure can occur.


1The 16800-14102 168xxA Windows XP DVD recovery image checks the motherboard BIOS signature before starting the Ghost image recovery process. If will not proceed if the BIOS does contain a 168xxA signature. The recovery scripts in the DVD recovery image can be binary patched to work with a 16901A BIOS signature.

gslick:

--- Quote from: coromonadalix on October 01, 2024, 04:09:00 pm ---putting x64  system could be good or bad  if you can not go over 4gb of ram,  yes  you want to get 4gb,  but the x64  kernel operate differently  ...   better put 32 bit os, and give more ram if possible to the video ...  sometime in bios you can "up" the value

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The ADLINK M-890 motherboard versions of the 168xxA, 16901A, and 16902B come standard with an installation of the 64-bit version of Windows Embedded Standard 7. I'm not sure how much lower the system resource utilization might be with that version of Windows 7 compared to normal retail 64-bit versions.

I was able to get that 64-bit version of Windows Embedded Standard 7 working on an 4GB RAM ADLINK M-880 motherboard version of a 16902B, basically by the equivalent of cloning a drive image from an ADLINK M-890 motherboard version. A tweak to a registry setting was required to resolve a Bugcheck 0x7B issue due to SATA controller differences between the M-880 and M-890 motherboards. After that, on the first boot all of the motherboard chipset drivers were automatically updated, and then after rebooting again the LA application software version 5.90.1104 could be installed and everything worked fine. The system boot time and overall system responsiveness seemed fine.

There is no recovery DVD available for the ADLINK M-890 motherboard versions. The recovery image is contained on a hidden recovery partition on the system disk. If the system disk dies or is corrupted to the point that the recovery partition is lost, you are out of luck unless you have made your own external backup of the recovery partition, which is around 8GB.

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/recovery-dvd-for-agilent-16801a-logic-analyzer/msg5630545/#msg5630545

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