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Upgrading Mainboard in Lecroy DDA-3000 (aka WavePro 7300a?)
lzqing:
|O It is CPU 's problem , if i use E5700 will be report uCode error and getting this shutdown issue.It is ok now since i change back to P4 CPU.
I Still working for install Xstream drivers for my 7300A with P5PE-VM base on Win7 OS, i tried many times and reading this post , i think it is very simply ,but all the solution not working for me .
analogRF:
--- Quote from: lzqing on April 07, 2020, 12:54:58 pm --- |O It is CPU 's problem , if i use E5700 will be report uCode error and getting this shutdown issue.It is ok now since i change back to P4 CPU.
I Still working for install Xstream drivers for my 7300A with P5PE-VM base on Win7 OS, i tried many times and reading this post , i think it is very simply ,but all the solution not working for me .
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that cpu is not officially supported by this board. you need the unofficial modded bios.
profanum429:
So I got an idea to try upgrading my 6030A scope; I found an AIMB-582 board for $30 shipped so I figured it was worth a shot. It's a Q77 board with 2x PCI, 1x PCI-E 16x and 1x PCI-E 4x. It also has a LVDS port on the board itself.
I figured the USB probably wouldn't work with the onboard ports based on other posts so I went ahead and picked up a PCI-E USB3.0 card with a 20 pin internal header and a USB3.0 20pin to USB2.0 10pin adapter cable.
I went with an i7 3770 (non K since I don't plan on overclocking it) and a Noctua 65mm tall cooler; first issue was the backplate on the AIMB-582 is designed to be used with an Advantech cooler; I bought a used LGA115X cpu socket + backplate off eBay for $8 bucks and replaced the Advantech backplate with a stock one and the Noctua HSF went on fine.
I installed 4GB (2x2 GB) of DDR3 and got the board mounted in the case with no PCI cards; second issue was the PSU 20pin cable, too short. I removed the PSU and got it plugged in so I could install Windows and ordered a 24-pin extender (20 pin extenders were a few week wait). Got the extender and everything worked fine.
At this point I installed the PCI acquistion card, the PCI GPIB card and the PCI-E USB3.0 card and hooked everything up. I also made an AC97->HD Audio cable to plug into the motherboard for the front speaker on the 6030A. This audio works OK playing music and stuff, but there is still some feedback, not sure what exactly is going on but I'll probably just disconnect it since I don't like the audible feedback feature anyway.
Got the latest XStream 8.whatever 32bit version installed and bam, everything worked great. Front panel has no issues plugged into the PCI-E card; even the thermal printer that my 6030A has works perfect. It's way faster now, since I moved it from a 2.8GHz P4 to a i7 3770 quadcore, so that's to be expected.
Cost overall was around $160 total, the majority of that being the CPU so I'm super pleased with how it turned out.
Overall, a few things left; I lost the CD drive since it was IDE and the 582 board only supports SATA, easy fix, I'll eventually get a slimline DVD drive to put in there for completion sake even though I've been using USB for everything.
The last big hurdle is the internal display; I've pretty much always used a 22" 1080p monitor stacked on top of the scope since I like the bigger screen so I'm not in a big rush to do the internal display. Reading here seems like the 6030 has a parallel TTL type connector; digging around on the back of the front panel on my 6030A I've seeing a TI LVDS receiver chip that is feeding the actual display connector. The old AGP card had a LVDS transmitter chip on it that brought out 3x data channels and 1x clock on a 20pin that goes to the front panel PCB into another 20 pin.
Looking at the LVDS chip that the AIMB-582 board is using and BIOS options it looks like I can set the port up for 18bit 800x600 (matching what I believe is coming out of the AGP card in my 6030A) so I'd just need a 40pin to 20pin LVDS cable pinned right for the A0,A1,A2 data and clock? I've not messed with LVDS before so I could be wrong, not sure if someone else has tried this on an 6kA model before.
albertr:
--- Quote from: nctnico on October 22, 2019, 04:44:16 pm ---
--- Quote from: Mechatrommer on October 22, 2019, 03:56:23 pm ---
--- Quote from: nctnico on October 22, 2019, 02:50:32 pm ---It turns out the factory calibration is also in the EEPROMs on the acquisition board so you don't need to save the files. A self calibration from the service menu does the rest to restore all the calibration data.
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if original owner did a calibration process later during the life of the scope in service, will it saved in eeprom too?
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You'd have to ask Lecroy. I'd assume if you send it to Lecroy then they might update the EEPROM values if necessary.
It seems the self calibration data is saved in different files. The data which is in the EEPROMs is read once if the file is missing on the disk.
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I think LeCroy (at least its US headquoters) save copies of all calibration data done in the last 15 years of so. So if your scope is not too old or it has been back to them for re-calibration, you can call them and request them to email you a copy of the calibration files. Easy.
-albertr
albertr:
--- Quote from: Mechatrommer on October 22, 2019, 02:21:30 pm ---
--- Quote from: analogRF on October 22, 2019, 12:35:28 pm ---I think you have an SDA6000 (only 50 ohm inputs, right? no 1M). What version of the lecroy xstream are you using?
what options do you have on your scope? I have a 7300A but it does not have the "spectrum analyzer" package. of course I have FFT as part of math functions but in your last picture you have a dedicated spectrum analyzer tool. I am curious how I can have that on my scope. what option can enable that tool?
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yes 50 ohm input. latest ver8... you can download from lecroy website (google XStreamDSOInstaller), but in order to add licenses, you need to do it in older ver7.x (i guess the ori xstream installer comes with your DSO saved somewhere in the HDD) after add licenses, upgrade to latest version 8, you can stick with older ver i dont find any problem, except i like the spectrum (FFT) (and 3D iirc) windows arrangement on the latest version. read this thread VERY carefully... https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/lecroy-options-recovery/ its not straight forward at first and learn the way how mr jack sparrow talk and think. really, you need to search here in eevblog for "Lecroy mod" "Lecroy dso" etc, there are many infos here.
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Nice! So I went to this thread and generated a list of options for my scope. Can see "SPECTRUM" option available among many other interesting choices. Now I need to take a look at them. My scope multi-boots between Linux, XP and Win7 and I have X-Stream 8.1.0.1 (XP) and 8.6.2.10 (Win7) installed. Do you say that I have to go back to 7.1.x to apply the generated keys? Or newer X-Stream already converted my eeprom to different format so this keygen's is useless for me? Re-installing 7.1 is not a problem and is totally worth to try the new options...
-albertr
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