I have a properly licensed MSO9404A that runs Windows XP. It would be attractive to upgrade the scope to run Windows 7 like the current models. Under Win 7, the newest Infiniium software can be installed and it supports some attractive new features. For an experiment I tried a clean install of my own copy of Win7 Ultimate, which is all that I had. Almost everything seemed to work properly and the scope runs. However, all the features are turned off since the license is no good. It is no good because in the Win 7 environment, the hostid comes out wrong, so the license file does not work. The hardware, including motherboard, and the disk serial number are still the same. So there must be something else that is leading to the change in the hostid that the license manager is coming up with. Or possibly the license manager uses a different algorithm, and the old license file could never work with any Win7 software. Does anyone know, or have some experience to share in this regard ?
I might also add that it would be tempting to buy the new motherboard and Win 7 package from Keysight. However, the part alone costs $3400 and has to be installed by Keysight. If one could use the original license with Win7 then there would be a path to much lower cost upgrade.
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