Hello all,
Please advise if my re-hashed steps below are good (or not) -- I've read through this blog, combined Safar's, PhillyFlyers (thanks!) and others posts into a guide I hope I can follow but if anyone with experience can please "sanity check" it I would appreciate it.
I probably paid too much for a (very clean) DSOX3024A, so I'm hoping to avoid bricking it (at my age I may never be able to replace it) -- no worries, I accept any/all responsibility for bricking my scope, but I'm thinking it should go fine, I'm just not 100% certain I have all of the steps right...
Can I ever recover if the flash doesn't work -- and can I get back to "official" 2.43 if I need to send it in for repair or cal?This is NOT for a commercial application, I'm an electronic tech, reasonably confident I won't make a major mistake.....
Thanks in advance for your review of the below!
I am hoping the latest 2.43 image attached to #msg1453247 has already been "liberated", as I'm not sure I would undertake the entire process "end to end".
Starting with an DSOX3024A I recently updated to Agilent 2.43 -- it has an Agilent DSOXLAN.
Using Patched2.43 attached here
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/dsox2000-and-3000-series-licence-have-anyone-tried-to-hack-that-scope/msg1453247/#msg1453247:
0/ Telnet to DSOX3024A. Do the following in WindowsCE:
1/ Copy the uncompressed 2.43 patched.bin.comp attached to #msg1453247 from Windows PC to the scope
2/ Compress the uncompressed posted 2.43 patched.bin.comp: compress bincompress /d patched_nk.bin patched_nk.bin.comp
3/ Kill infiniivisionLauncher.exe process: processmgr kill infiniivisionlauncher.exe
4/ Flash: \windows\loadP500Flash -u ceImage1 \usb\patched_nk.bin.comp
5/ Save the original link and make the new startup link: save the original infiniivision.lnk renaming it to something like "orig.sav".
NOTE: the \secure\startup folder should contain ONLY ONE .lnk file, named infiniivision.lnk, with the below command line (do not add quotes):
"211#infiniivisionLauncher.exe -l MSO -l MEMUP -l EMBD -l AUTO -l FLEX -l PWR -l COMP -l SGM -l MASK -l BW50 -l AUDIO -l WAVEGEN -l AERO -l VID -l ADVMATH -l ASV -l SCPIPS -l RML -l VID -l CABLE -l DIS -l TOM -l SGMC"
Note: the above link file is 215 bytes in length (thanks to utmba95 and Safar
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/dsox2000-and-3000-series-licence-have-anyone-tried-to-hack-that-scope/msg1479144/#msg1479144).
6/ Reboot the Scope (and pray).What else am I forgetting?
Is this a "one way" flash or is there any way I can get back to "vanilla" 2.43 in case I need to send it in for repair/cal? I'm seriously intrigued that it appears the patched 2.43 in #msg1453247 is already "fixed", as if this is the case, the steps I need to perform are far fewer, much less to go wrong...
Thank you kindly,NorcalNerd