my tds7104 is failing, it does not power up (except by shorting the power-on jumper inside, but then it still would not boot). reason being, the intel nlx motherboard (same as on csa7404) does not leave reset. the voltages are ok, so I assume it is the nlx board itself.
I got a NOS nlx board (these are standard boards from intel), obviously it has the incorrect firmware in its firmware hub (non-tektronix). I intend to replace the board in the tds, and jumper the ppc board into reset, to power it up.
so here are my questions:
-someone here said that doing so (powering a non-original nlx up with non-tektronix firmware loaded) may destroy the remaining boards. I would think, with them being reset, this should not be possible.
-how do I reprogramm the correct firmware? the bin file should be on the disk as i heard somewhere, but what tool is needed to program it?
any help is appreciated.