Refurbishing a Tektronix TDS7104 Oscilloscope

Introduction The TDS7104 Common Failures Make an Image of the Hard Drive CR2032 Backup Battery Replacement and Display Brightness Do NOT Remove the Front Panel Scope Disassembly A Failed Attempt at Switching over to an SSD Reinstalling from Scratch: Windows 2000 Pro or Windows XP? Not All TEAC CD-224E Drives are the Same Installing Windows 2000 Pro on an Old Machine through a Virtual Machine Burning the Windows 2000 Pro Installation Disk onto a USB Stick Booting from USB Stick with a Plop Boot Manager Installing Windows 2000 Pro Installing Special TDS7104 Drivers Installing Tektronix Firmware The Scope is Working! Re-enabling the Existing License Cleaning Up The End References Footnotes Introduction A little over a month ago, I ran into a Tektronix TDS7104 at the Silicon Valley Flea Market, where else? Other than some dirty buttons, a few smudges here and there, and the usual assortment of calibration and asset tracking tags, the unit was in excellent cosmetic shape, but the price tag…