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Refurbishing a Tektronix TDS7104 Oscilloscope
- Introduction - The TDS7104 - Common Failures - Make an Image of the Hard Drive - CR2032 Backup Battery Replacement and Display Brightness - Do NOT Remove the Front Panel - Scope Disassembly - A Failed Attempt at Switching over to an SSD - Reinstalling from Scratch: Windows 2000 Pro or Windows XP? - Not All TEAC CD-224E Drives are the Same - Installing Windows 2000 Pro on an Old Machine through a Virtual Machine - Burning the Windows 2000 Pro Installation Disk onto a USB Stick - Booting from USB Stick with a Plop Boot Manager - Installing Windows 2000 Pro - Installing Special TDS7104 Drivers - Installing Tektronix Firmware - Installing TekFonts - The Scope is Working! - Re-enabling the Existing License - Cleaning Up - The End - References - Footnotes Introduction A little over a month ago, I ran into a Tektronix TDS7104 at the Silicon Valley Flea Market, where else? Other than some dirty buttons, a few smudges here and there, and the usual assortment of calibration and asset tracking tags, the unit was in excellent cosmetic shape, but the price tag of $700 was way out of line: as I write this a try-before-you-buy TDS7104 can be had on Craigslist for the same price. But Paul, the seller/liquidator, has a habit of saying “I’ll make you a deal” and he did before I even asked: $300.
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