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Chapter 8 Replacement Procedures
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8-35-3-3Acquisition Diagnostics - Read EEPROM Data
Under this menu you will see a listing for each board that has an EEPROM with a location for Vital
Product Data, see
and
. The Board Data can be read individually or there is
also a Read All Boards Utility.
2.) Click on the Backplane and Equalization items and select the
Execute
button to read the
contents of the EEPROM on each circuit board. This will create two files for each board in the
C:/Musashi/target/RW/Diagnostics
directory. The files generated are a *.txt and *.dat file. The
*.txt file will be the working file to edit where the *.dat file will be the file showing the actual
hexadecimal data stored in the memory chip.
8-35-3-4
Modify VPD Text Files
Once data has been read back successfully and all files have been created, you are now ready to
modify the contents of the *.txt file and write the data back.
1.) Open Windows Explorer via the CTRL-ALT-DEL method. Press CTRL-ALT-DEL
simultaneously, select Task Manager, select New Task - Run, type in "
explorer
" in the Create
New Task dialog box and select OK. If no Explorer window is open, click on the Explorer icon
in the task bar to open a window.
2.) In Windows Explorer, navigate to
C:/Musashi/target/RW/Diagnostics
. Here you will see all the
*.txt and *.dat files you have just created via the Read Utility. Each of the VPD files will have
the prefix of “EEP-”.
