Monday, August 14, 2023

HP Agilent Infiniium 54815A 500Mhz Boot Repair and SSD Upgrade

 This post is going to be about Repair of old HP Infiniium 54815A 500Mhz oscilloscope.  Scope has normal PC motherboard with Windows 98. Scope has issue booting into windows because DS12887A RTC which scope's motherboard uses has internal battery. And because of RTC battery being empty scope has CMOS checksum bad and can not boot as it has forgotten all boot settings. I will try to fix DS12887A and restore setting to CMOS memory. 



Scope Motherboard


RTC DS12887A pulled out and Contact point exposed with soldering iron.

CR2032  Battery mounted on DS12887A RTC


Battery Installed back on motherboard

8GB CF card installed with 2.5 to CF adapter.

Motherboard BIOS menu

Running Default Setup on BIOS
Run Default setup

Enable IDE driver because drive are connected on IDE.


Detect IDE so that board know where is Drive connected.


8GB CF card detected.

Save and Reboot


Booting into Windows 98








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