Rohde & Schwarz AMIQ Modulation Generator - Reviving the PC System

Introduction A Late Nineties PC Assessing the Damage Installing a Video Card and Keyboard Locked CPU Fan Replace the BIOS Backup Battery Replacing the Motherboard Capacitors Replacing the Spinning Disk Hard Drive with a CompactFlash Drive Digital Configuration Architecture of the Signal Generation Board Installing Firmware - The Official Way Installation Alternative 1: Floppy Drive Emulator Installation Alternative 2: Installed Drive Image Controlling the AMIQ with a PC The AMIQ and a Rohde & Schwarz SFQ as RF Vector Signal Generator References Footnotes Introduction My Rohde & Schwarz AMIQ teardown and Breaking R&S AMIQ License Keys blog posts featured a working unit, but that wasn’t the case when I first received it. On the contrary, many hours were spent getting it up and running. There were 2 major issues: all the electrolytic capacitors of the PC motherboard had to be replaced the hard drive was toast, and with it all the software to make the unit run In this blog post, I…