Connect Your Pc To The Agilent 3100 Offgel Fractionator - Agilent Technologies 3100 OFFGEL Fractionator User Manual

6 Maintenance
Firmware Update
2 Double-click the exe-file to extract the content into a folder (default is
The Firmware Update Tool can be customized to use different folders as firmware location.
N O T E
Please change the path under Options/Configure Directories from within the Firmware
Update Tool.

Connect your PC to the Agilent 3100 OFFGEL Fractionator

Your PC has to be connected by a Cross-Over LAN cable or an normal LAN
cable to the Agilent 3100 OFFGEL Fractionator (Please see instructions for
Installation in
approach to connect the PC with the Firmware update tool by RS232 see a
description of connections at the rear of the instrument see
page 34.
When using a LAN connection to the instrument the established parameters
for TCP/IP communication are used. Typically speed and duplex mode are
determined by auto-negotiation.
When using the RS 232 cable the Firmware Update Tool uses the following
port settings when performing the update:
• Baudrate 19200 (overrides the PC settings)
• No Parity
• 8 Data Bits
• 1 Stop Bit
• COM1, COM2 etc.
The settings are set automatically for the time of the firmware update.
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(http://www.chem.agilent.com/scripts/DownloadsUtilities.asp) onto your
PC.
c:\Program Files\Agilent\LC Firmware Update Tool.
Chapter 4). In case you would like to use the alternative
Figure 7 on
OFFGEL User Manual