Hmmm... this is pretty strange indeed. We have at least one other person who IS able to reproduce the freezeup, but several others who cannot.
Well, now that I know it can be avoided by using full memory depth, it's not really much of a problem for me, but it certainly is strange that some (at least two!) scopes have the bug and others don't.
(video linked up above)
What's the date of calibration for your scope? Mine's March 4, 2015, and I only took delivery of it yesterday. It's the closest thing I can think of to a "build date", something we could use to determine roughly when these were made.
The cal cert says 16 Jan 2015.
I don't know if you've read about the "saga". We ordered the scope in early February, and due to backorder and longshoreman's strike, I didn't have a delivery until the first week of April. (I don't remember the exact dates offhand). This was "scope 1" which turned out to have a bad glitch on CH4. So after consulting with a Rigol tech and the folks at TEquipment I sent that one back and was shipped a "new" one from TEquipment. But... some alarms went off about the replacement "scope 2".
First, the packaging. There was only one box, it was not double-boxed like the first one and like the ones you see "unboxing" on YT videos. What happened to the outer box?
Second, the serial number. The "new" scope had an _earlier_ SN than the one I returned, by quite a bit of numbers. This didn't make sense to me, as all of TEquipment's stock at that time should have been from the container they received at the end of March.
Third, there were some minor differences in how the "feel" (control response timing) was compared to my memory of what the first scope felt like. Later I put that down to my imagination but now I'm not so sure any more.
And as we see now, the calibration date was in January, which fits with the early SN.
So I'm wondering what to make of all this. Is the scope I got as the "replacement" a lemon, not too bad to toss out like the first one but still not quite 100 percent "right"?