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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: faby on November 16, 2006, 02:42:35 AM
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I was rotating the view of a 18Mb program when mach3 stops, turnig on reset button, and the "Driver watchdog triggered" appeared in the status bar.
the machine didn't working, was stopped (sorry for my english) I was just looking at the program.
What it means?
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Hi, Faby
This happen's if you move the view around to much, I don't really now exactilly why, seem's like more than a 90 deg. rotation will do it.
Find a view you like, Reset Mach, a Regen tool path if needed.
Hope this Helps, Chip
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Hi, I have found that this happens on computors that are under 1ghz. I guess windows is trying to update the screen and taking control away from Mach3 which Mach3 dosn't like too much.
I upgraded my processor from 733mhz to 1.3ghz and the problem disappeared.
Cheers
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I use a P4 3GHz, 1Gb ram...
Well now I know that it's only a matter o view, I was scared that it could happen during the machine working.
That job need 12-14 hours of continuous work :P
Thanks
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Hi, I see what you mean. Your computor speed seems fine. I have never had the error whilst the machine is working only when the screen was updating the new file I loaded.
Cheers
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Hi Faby,
you can disable the Driver Watchdog in General Config...
Greetings,
Wolfram
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Yup, I turn it off because I have the Charge pump running :)