[time-nuts] (OT) HP 16500B / 16500L - reprogramming MAC address

paul swed paulswedb at gmail.com
Fri Feb 18 21:25:31 UTC 2011


Sorry I have one and no clue to the answer

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Philip Pemberton <lists at 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.
> lists at philpem.me.uk
> http://www.philpem.me.uk/
>
> _______________________________________________
> time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts at febo.com
> To unsubscribe, go to
> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
> and follow the instructions there.
>


More information about the time-nuts mailing list