Hi!
This is very old thread but very useful
Thanx to all involved...
I bought the TLA5202 cheaply but without HDD (235MHz speed, 512k depth). I installed new HDD, recreated the software (WinXP (originally installed), module firmware upgrade (neccesary), TLA 6.1) and by chance came across this thread, where it was described how to implement the analyzer option upgrade.
Connected locally - Tek visa shows that I have 3 instruments onboard (after *IDN?):
TLA5202
TLA7AB4
TLA7BB4
Firmware rev. after upgrade 5.7.001
So I tried to make it standard way (passed on TLA5202 module only) ->
syst:pass:inst:pass "PitBull5.7.001"
syst:conf:depth 33554432
syst:conf:speed 450
syst:pass:inst:upd 1726396000
Unfortunately - NO LUCK. I tried it many times. In different order, with different spellings, and so on... Communication would hang up, PowerFlex would stop seeing the module and hard reboots of the analyzer were necessary. I thought I might look in the firmware and find something - however, other than the "PitBull" password, I found nothing interesting. I also thought that PowerFlex is a program that helps install options, so I also started to look at this one in the hex editor. of course, I found there the password - PitBull, but also PITBULL, and what is very interesting right before the password PITBULL is placed the word FUJIHIKO.
So I prepared a script in visa and changed the passwords one by one.
2nd attempt
syst:pass:inst:pass "PITBULL5.7.001"
syst:conf:depth 33554432
syst:conf:speed 450
syst:pass:inst:upd 1726396000
Module hangs - restart required
After restart nothing changes - speed 235MHz and 512k depth
3rd attempt
syst:pass:inst:pass "FUJIHIKO5.7.001"
syst:conf:depth 33554432
syst:conf:speed 450
syst:pass:inst:upd 1726396000
Module hangs - restart required
After restart changes are visible - speed 450MHz and 32M depth
So - it works. Thanks to the discussion I managed to upgrade my analyzer as well. Hope it will help another users. Of course it is possible that a PITBULL password will be OK in your case...
tOri
P.S. Next and last step will be memory upgrade to 1GB dual-channel (originally my device had 512MB - not enough for WinXP). I don't plan to make further upgrades