[Techtoolslist] Fluke 9010A Display problem

[John Robertson]

John Robertson wrote:

> Jose Luiz Martins wrote:

>> Hi !

>>

>> Today I've decided to put my 9010A back to work after 5 years.

>>

>> It boots OK, but the display is not showing some parts of some

>> letters. For instance the K and V looks like I.

>>

>> I opened and performed the display test, as mentioned on Workshop

>> manual, and everything seams to be right.

>>

>> Any clue on that ?

>>

>> Thanks

>>

>> JL

>> ___

>

>

> Haven't done the display test in years - does it check every segment? 

> If so, and the segments all light up as they should then you may have 

> a ROM issue where some of the ASCII code text in the text tables is 

> defective. That is just a guess, you can check against the code on the 

> ftp site to make sure the base ROMs are all good.

>

> Anyone else with a guess?

>

> John :-#)# 


Could be the decoder for the display, sounds like it handles individual 
segments OK, but may a problem with combinations needed to build letters...

John :-#)#