Hello all,
I'm new here in the forum, as well as new with Mach. I'm retrofitting an older Hardinge lathe. Mach 3 has been working well for a couple weeks, and just now has stopped functioning. It started with error messages about the smoothstepper not showing up, as well as usb write errors. I tried reinstalling the SS drivers, trying different cables, etc. After a few tries, Mach just freezes on startup. The PC does not freeze, just Mach. I've tried reinstalling Mach, as well as installing the latest development version of Mach. It just freezes. I've run the Mach driver test, and it shows no problems. I've unchecked everything in the windows startup. What else can I try? What could be wrong here?
As I stated before, Mach ran fine for a couple weeks, and nothing else has changed. The PC is used solely for this machine. It's a Dell Optiplex with 2.33Mhz processor, 2G of ram, running XP SP3.
I would appreciate any insight.
Thanks,
Kevin