Agilent 8166A Firmware Upgrade Procedure - Agilent Technologies 8163A User Manual

Firmware Upgrade Process
Agilent 8163A Lightwave Multimeter, Agilent 8164A Lightwave Measurement System, & Agilent 8166A Lightwave
Multichannel System, Fourth Edition
N O TE In step 4 and step 6, we presume your diskette drive is "a:". If not, adjust the
copydisk.exe command accordingly.
5 Insert the DISK_2 into your PC and open a DOS command window if you are
running Windows.
6 Copy the second firmware image file to DISK_2 using the command
"copydisk.exe 64m202_2.img a:".
7 Insert DISK_1 into the mainframe.
8 Turn on the 8164A and wait for the first beep.
Now you must be quick:
– Press and hold the Preset hardkey.
– Still holding Preset, press and hold the Aux hardkey.
– Still holding Preset and Aux, press and hold the Appl hardkey.
TI P Use three fingers and place them near the keys in advance!
If you were successful, you here a double beep and the display shows that the
instrument is in download mode. Otherwise, turn off the power and try again.
9 Follow the instructions that appear on the screen.
10 Insert Disk_2 when requested to insert the disk containing the file "flash.bin".
11 After the programming finishes, cycle the power. The instrument will reboot
with the new firmware. Don't forget to remove DISK_2.
N O TE The upgrade procedure above must only be executed with modules that already
have firmwave version V0.95 or above. The software will NOT run on firmware s
that are lower than V0.95.

Agilent 8166A Firmware Upgrade Procedure

To upgrade firmware for the Agilent 8166A, you require a PC, running MS
Windows 95 or NT 4.0, or higher, plus a serial null-modem cable, that was
supplied with your Agilent 8166A mainframe.
Perform the following instructions:
1 Copy the directory Firmware/8166A from the Support Disk to a directory on
your PC. This directory contains the files "HPFlashWinR5.exe" and
"66_fl202.bin".
2 Click on HPFlashWinR5.exe to start the HPFLASH software.
3 Press the "File Selection" button, the file selection box appears.
4 Move to the file "66_fl202.bin" and click on OK.
5 Click on 'Port Settings'.
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