Sorry I have one and no clue to the answer On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Philip Pemberton <li...@philpem.me.uk>wrote:
> Hi guys, > > Apologies for the off-topic-ness of this message, but I seem to recall > there are a few HP 16500B users hanging out here who don't follow the > hp_agilent_equipment group on Yahoo... > > My 16500B has developed a fault. Earlier today, I booted it up and got a > load of random garbage on the screen. Rebooted, same again. Turns out one of > the RAM modules had come out of its socket slightly. I reseated it, powered > up and got this error message on boot: > > Corrupted LAN Board! LAN Not Functional! > > SYSTEM can see the LAN board (I have an Ethernet option on the desktop), > but if I go into Advanced Settings, the analyser locks hard. PVTEST doesn't > even see the Ethernet card. The analyser appears to have cleared the MAC > address to zero, though, which is nice.... > > From what I can gather, the (soldered down) 28C16 EEPROM on the 16500L LAN > card has either been wiped by an errant write, or has 'forgotten' its > contents. > > Does anyone have a dump of the contents of this chip from a working 16500L > card? > > Failing that, does anyone know of a way to reprogram the MAC address into > the chip? Some secret key-combination, or other trick? > > Thanks, > -- > Phil. > li...@philpem.me.uk > http://www.philpem.me.uk/ > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
