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Title: Need firmware upgrade help?
Post by: tony3d on July 10, 2016, 01:31:03 am

Hi all, just downloaded the firmware upgrade for my Owon SDS7102 scope. Now what? Never upgraded a scope before. I have the Rar file. How do I perform the upgrade?

Title: Re: Need firmware upgrade help?
Post by: GEuser on July 10, 2016, 02:34:22 am

Read the help file instructions on the net , or plug in it in and fire up the software i think ?

Title: Re: Need firmware upgrade help?
Post by: tautech on July 10, 2016, 02:41:55 am

Quote from: tony3d on July 10, 2016, 01:31:03 am

Hi all, just downloaded the firmware upgrade for my Owon SDS7102 scope. Now what? Never upgraded a scope before. I have the Rar file. How do I perform the upgrade?

You'll have to unpack the .rar. It will likely contain a few files within including the update itself and also instructions.

Something like Winrar will do the job.

Title: Re: Need firmware upgrade help?
Post by: tony3d on July 10, 2016, 03:17:14 am

Quote from: tautech on July 10, 2016, 02:41:55 am

Quote from: tony3d on July 10, 2016, 01:31:03 am

Hi all, just downloaded the firmware upgrade for my Owon SDS7102 scope. Now what? Never upgraded a scope before. I have the Rar file. How do I perform the upgrade?

You'll have to unpack the .rar. It will likely contain a few files within including the update itself and also instructions.

Something like Winrar will do the job.

Ok, I'm on a Mac, but I am running Windows 10 natively on an external drive. Should work right?

Title: Re: Need firmware upgrade help?
Post by: tautech on July 10, 2016, 03:45:25 am

Quote from: tony3d on July 10, 2016, 03:17:14 am

Quote from: tautech on July 10, 2016, 02:41:55 am

Quote from: tony3d on July 10, 2016, 01:31:03 am

Hi all, just downloaded the firmware upgrade for my Owon SDS7102 scope. Now what? Never upgraded a scope before. I have the Rar file. How do I perform the upgrade?

You'll have to unpack the .rar. It will likely contain a few files within including the update itself and also instructions.

Something like Winrar will do the job.

Ok, I'm on a Mac, but I am running Windows 10 natively on an external drive. Should work right?

You'll just have to check you get a Win 10 compatible version. Win 10 may be able to do it with a default program, I'm not sure.
Just double click the .rar and follow the Windows prompts

Title: Re: Need firmware upgrade help?
Post by: ralphrmartin on July 10, 2016, 05:22:27 pm

Look for a Mac program called Keka. It will unpack the rar file. You should then end up with the appropriate parts which you can use in a virtual pc of some kind (Parallels, VirtualBox, etc) on your mac.

Title: Re: Need firmware upgrade help?
Post by: Kilrah on July 10, 2016, 05:36:27 pm

On Windows you can use 7-zip to unpack the .rar file.