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Onto the second 54831B scope. This one immediately boots up to a BIOS screen. It has 512MB instead of 256MB of memory. But it doesn’t detect a HD.
This makes sense… because when I open it up, it doesn’t have one. It also doesn’t have any of the IDE cables or the special adapter board to connect to the LS120 floppy drive.
I think I’ll simply give up on the LS120 floppy drive, but 2 IDE cables and a compact flash adapter.
That concludes the work for today.
The money shot: the scope is working fine. 600 MHz/4 Gsps.
Not bad for a day of playing around. 4 Gsps works fine, but only when 1 channel is enabled, it drops down to 2 Gsps when you switch on another channel.
I need to figure out how to upgrade it from 600 MHz to 1 GHz. It’s supposed to be only a resistor fix. And there’s a second identical scope waiting too. $200 well spent.
The BIOS screen is up!
All it took was remove the CPU from the socket… and put it back.
This is with a generic VGA card and HD disconnected. I can now start to put the removed components back.
