Good Day dear T&M equipment enthusiasts,
I am currently repairing a Tektronix TDS 5054 (non-B) digital oscilloscope and it seems that this one has a broken PC interface board alias PowerPPC board. Serial number is B04#######.
First off, I wanted to thank
elektropionir for his write-up of his TDS 7104 repair and disk restoration setup
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/tek-csa7404-repair-project/525/ and also
harrimansat for his ISO images of a working TDS5054 with WinME OS.
You guys rock.https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/$200-reward-for-information-regarding-tek-tds5000b-debug/msg3372734/#msg3372734 https://www.eevblog.com/forum/repair/help!-need-recovert-cd-for-winme-version-of-tds-5054/msg517232/#msg517232So, the unit is the following state: In short, the PC interface board alias PowerPPC board fails and the Tekscope Application crashes with the known "Your Tektronix instrument has encountered an unrecoverable system error..." error message box.
Both LEDs CR700 'PAI LOADING' and CR710 'LOAD ERROR' on the PC interface/PowerPC board are permanently lit.Might be Flash/EPROM rot...
I am including a detailed list of hardware and software installation troubleshooting I have done over the past days.
But as I am running out of ideas,
I would certainly appreciate any pointers. For example, if any TDS5054 owner could measure signals are the various test points on the PC interface board, I could at least probe and confirm those.
As for the next step, I will take a day off and pause from this. Then disassemble the whole unit so I can insert the PowerPC board into a different PCI bus slot in the mainboard. This may also allow some testing of the PowerPC board in another PC, if possible...
Thanks for your support and bandwidth.
Cheers,
THDplusN_bad
General:- The unit came with a crashing Tekscope program, but the Windows 2000 Professional OS booted and ran fine. The PC motherboard is an Intel D815EFV, 512 MByte SDRAM and a Pentium III 1.2 GHz CPU.
Hardware troubleshooting: - I have cloned the HDD and replaced it with a 120 GByte mSATA solid state disk and a Delock type 62495 adapter (mSata to 44pin IDE); same as elektropionir I have used this adapter successfully for other repairs. Highly recommended.
- The primary symptom is that the start-up sequence of the PC interface board alias PowerPPC board fails. Both LEDs CR700 and CR710 are permanently on. LED CR710 goes low very briefly upon power-on, then lits up permanently.
- The USB connector J520 and the additional connector JP1000 from the PC motherboard to the PC interface / PPC board are fully and correctly inserted. The Front Panel passes all tests when tested with the Tektronix test application "FrontPanelTest.exe" as found in the /program files sub-directory.
- The LCD panel and the touch screen work well. All LEDs on the Front Panel light up for several seconds after power-up and then switch off permanently.
- I have followed the Tektronix Service Manual 071-1004-02 and worked my way through the troubleshooting tree in figure 6-24 in the Service Manual. It basically ends at the last branch "Oscilloscope Application Starts?" Nope....
- I have measured the power supply voltages per Table 6-5 and 6-6, all voltages measured nominal.
- I have also removed the PC interface / PPC board and soldered test leads to the power supply section, and the +5V, -5V and +15V and -15V supply rails measure 5.53V, -5.4V, +16.4V and -16,3V DC. Tested the fuses F1001 and F1002, voltages are 5.08VDC on both sides each. The oscillator Y1700 produces a 14.3 MHz clock signal with 3.3Vpp signal amplitude. TP701 near U720 shows a 4.52 MHz clock signal with 3.5Vpp amplitude.
- All other testpoints on the PC interface/PowerPC board measure static low or 3.3V high.
- I have evaluated what happens if I press the RESET button on the PC interface / PPC board, same as grounding the test points TP1102 and TP1103 in Figure 6-27 in the Service Manual. No change.
- Set the test jumper J1100 to force permanent power-on, no change.
- The +5VA_unreg and -5V_unreg pins on the multi-pin interconnect between the PPC board and the acquisition board measure +5.42VDC and -5.48VDC.
- I have connected a 9-pin sub-D connector cable to the serial debug port J1050 close to the printer port, pins 2 and 8 (yes, two and eight) show no signal, but are permanently low at -9.8VDC.
- I had removed the acquisition board, which made no difference.
Software troubleshooting:- I have checked all points per the "If the oscilloscope Application does not work" section on page 6-47 on the service manual, no change.
- The Tektronix VXI-11 server runs and is visible in the task bar. This was the case with the Windows 2000 OS and is the same with the Windows ME OS.
- I have removed and re-installed the two latest Tekscope applications version 1.1.5 and 1.2.1; one after de-installation of the other- no change.
- In the Windows device manager. I have removed and installed all Tek-specific drivers for the graphics card, changed the drivers for the PCI-to-PCI bridge and the Tektronix IO processor same as for the National Instruments PCI-GPIB adapter. All drivers were taken from the local c:\Tektronix directory. I have tried alternative drivers for the Tektronix IO board... No change.
- I have restored the original BIOS setting using the "EAAP18EB" tool as found in the c:\Tektronix directory. Same for the c:\Tektronix\CMOS tool, which I ran as "CMOS r -net" No change.
- I have carefully checked for any resource conflicts on the PC side/Windows Device Manager, and found no conflicts on DMA channels, IRQs or memory space.
- Screen resolution is set to 640 x 480, 16-bit color depth as per the Service Manual. Verified that the correct display adapter driver is used, as provided in the Tektronix subdirectory.
- My most recent stab into this was to restore the Windows ME image as kindly provided by harrimansat. The OS restoration has worked fine, same as for the installation of the TekScope Software release version 1.0.9. However, the primary failure remains the same...
- The GPIB port is not responsive and the lower VGA output produces the same signal as the internal LCD.
TekVISA finds two resources, ASRL1::INSTR and ASRL2::INSTR - but these are just regular serial COM port aliases, so no sign of any real instrument detection.
- Changed the system date per jbruneaux's kind tip https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/$200-reward-for-information-regarding-tek-tds5000b-debug/25/, but no change.