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2.  Press the Menu key. The Menu 
setting will appear on the display. 
3.  Use the scroll wheel to go to item 4, USB Device. 
4.  If the connection is successful Connection Status 
will change from Offline to Online.  
5.  Press Exit[F4] to exit from the rear 
panel USB settings. 
USB Remote Control Function Check 
 
Invoke a terminal application such as Realterm. 
ASR-2000 will appear as a COM port on the PC. 
To check the COM settings in Windows, see the 
Device Manager. For example, in Win7 go to the  
Control panel ā System ā Hardware tab. 
If you are not familiar with using a terminal 
application to send/receive remote commands via a 
USB connection, please see page 179 for more 
information. 
Run this query command via the terminal after the 
instrument has been configured for  
USB remote control (page 174). 
*IDN? 
This should return the Manufacturer, Model 
number, Serial number, and Software version in the 
following format. 
GW-INSTEK, ASR-2XXX, GXXXXXXXX, XX.XX 
Manufacturer: GW-INSTEK 
Model number : ASR-2XXX