RIGOL Oscilloscope timescale “bug”

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I assume this an already known "bug" but I'm unsure if this could be fixed or not.

Straight to the problem:

I feed my RIGOL DS1054Z a 20MHz sinusoidal waveform and set the timescale to 200ms/div. The output is the following:

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(Sorry for the bad quality picture but the scope just don't want read my USB Stick for some reason.)

It is displaying the waveform just wrong! I know some other scopes have this problem as well but can this be fixed?

Note: My KEYSIGHT MSO 3000 Series displays the waveform as I would expect:

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Best Answer

Your Keysight scope is sampling at 1 MSa/s. I can't quite make out the Rigol's sample rate, but it looks like 5 MSa/s. That might account for some of the difference. Regardless, neither of those sample rates is high enough to correctly show a 20 MHz signal. You're seeing garbage on both scopes; it's just different kinds of garbage.