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Tektronix TLA7000 series CPU, memory and OS upgrade useful?
pquadrat:
Did anyone succeed in using Windows 7 on a TLA7012 ?
I tried it with the original Pentium M motherboard, all drivers load without any errors, but the TLA Application will not start, it tells onla "Updating Configuration".
The problem of my brevious post is a problem of some pCI hardware with certain boards.
pquadrat:
Some success on "upgrading" my Tek TLA7012:
I upgraded to a Pentium M 770 and 2GB RAM, all experiments with other mainboards did not work with the TekLink interface. And a Sata SSD, of course. Runs quite well now.
Next step was to get Windows 7 working with the Tek Software and drivers, after several attempts I got the drivers working, no error messages.
I tried it again, installing in different steps between the different versions, sometimes it gives a working system, sometimes not ("Updating Configuration" message).
I can not tell You which way works, and which does not, but with some trying, it does work.
And the last step was to upgrade the display to a 1600x1200 resolution. The display from an old IBM ThinkPad A30p has this resolution, and exactly the same form factor, all mounting holes are a perfect fit. Just had to make a new lvds cable and play with the bios settings for the internal lvds connector.
Display type is IDTech IAUX14S.
lukier:
--- Quote from: pquadrat on June 21, 2019, 06:46:50 pm ---And the last step was to upgrade the display to a 1600x1200 resolution. The display from an old IBM ThinkPad A30p has this resolution, and exactly the same form factor, all mounting holes are a perfect fit. Just had to make a new lvds cable and play with the bios settings for the internal lvds connector.
Display type is IDTech IAUX14S.
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Thanks for the tip on the LCD, that's one of the upgrades that's still on my TODO list. Did you keep the original touchscreen layer?
I went through similar troubles with my TLA7012 (originally TLA6204).
I've spent considerable amount of time trying to get a bit more modern motherboard to run (my one originally has AIMB-256G2-00A1E). I've got a lot of components, adapters and PCI/PCIe extensions from my experiments on modernising my LeCroy WaveRunner 6100A.
I've tried some industrial ITX board with Haswell i7, through various PCIe to PCI adapters, then I've tried some Asus motherboard (with the same Haswell CPU) that has PCI built-in (but also via PCIe to PCI bridge IC) - no success at all. Absolute mess and desperation can be seen on the photos.
So I gave up, went back to the original MoBo, upgraded the CPU to Core2 Duo E8335, added AFAIR extra 2GB RAM stick, so it runs with 3GB RAM, haven't tried 4GB but there is probably no point. It has SSD and runs Win7x64.
Not as nice as I would have wanted, but good enough.
TiN:
Nohope.jpg sums it all. Often custom proprietary stuff like these Tek boxes run on non-standard PCI/memory mapping "hacks" already, making it work thru even more non-standard implementations like noname PCIe bridges is a path to despair.
I run my TLA with Core Extreme CPU and 4GB RAMs + SSD, found it nice enough to use for all my needs. Should find some time to try TLA7SA16 module in action, oh well..
pquadrat:
--- Quote from: lukier on June 21, 2019, 08:56:48 pm ---
Thanks for the tip on the LCD, that's one of the upgrades that's still on my TODO list. Did you keep the original touchscreen layer?
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Yes, i kept it, but up to now I have only the windows 7 driver, which has no calibration tool. The XP driver used on the TLA7012 made all mouse functions dysfunctional.
How does Your touch screen works on Windows 7?
Do You think an Advantech AIMB-582QG2 board is worth a try?
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