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Upgrading Mainboard in Lecroy DDA-3000 (aka WavePro 7300a?)

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DaJMasta:
BIOS upgrade?  What BIOS upgrade?


I'm always hesitant to upgrade the BIOS on a bit of test gear with a normal motherboard because they are sometimes customized for the device - at the very least a bios upgrade not direct from LeCroy wouldn't have the splash screen and stuff.

That said, the normal procedure for a BIOS update would be to load it on a floppy and boot from it (usually an exe that makes the floppy bootable with the flashing application), or in the case of some BIOSes, they have a mechanism in the menu to point to the update file.  It wasn't until more modern boards than this one that even booting from a USB key was common and relatively error-free, so expecting it to be able to handle a BIOS update from USB or bootable CD is more credit than I would give it...

The CD drive in the rear should be fine to boot from with a normal XP installation CD, I did it on one a couple months ago, but you may have to configure the boot order in the BIOS for the system to even try the CD drive by default.

nctnico:
You can update the BIOS without any problems on the Wavepro 7000 series. The boot screen is in a different section of the flash.

However if the OS doesn't install I'd look at the motherboard and surrounding components first. Likely the problem is in there. Also don't let Windows install any drivers for unknown devices. Just let them remain unknown.

analogRF:
as others mentioned, there is no need for tampering with the bios. XP should install with whatever bios you have. It's probably the latest version anyways.

sixtimesseven:

--- Quote from: DaJMasta on December 06, 2019, 05:55:58 pm ---BIOS upgrade?  What BIOS upgrade?


I'm always hesitant to upgrade the BIOS on a bit of test gear with a normal motherboard because they are sometimes customized for the device - at the very least a bios upgrade not direct from LeCroy wouldn't have the splash screen and stuff.

That said, the normal procedure for a BIOS update would be to load it on a floppy and boot from it (usually an exe that makes the floppy bootable with the flashing application), or in the case of some BIOSes, they have a mechanism in the menu to point to the update file.  It wasn't until more modern boards than this one that even booting from a USB key was common and relatively error-free, so expecting it to be able to handle a BIOS update from USB or bootable CD is more credit than I would give it...

The CD drive in the rear should be fine to boot from with a normal XP installation CD, I did it on one a couple months ago, but you may have to configure the boot order in the BIOS for the system to even try the CD drive by default.

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Well every time I want to boot a xp stick I get a disk read error...
Im using Rufus 2.18 to burn a bootable mbr bios usb stick with my xp iso file.

The iso file is good. It works fine on my vm.

I also tried the winsetupfromusb 1.8. This starts to boot and xp starts installing (from the same usb stick) but then crashes with some windows bluescreen error during installation.

nctnico:
Did you change the hard drive and/or IDE cable? Your symptoms look like the hard drive or the cable between the motherboard and hard drive is bad. Another suspect is the memory.

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