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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: kharrisonkevin on September 18, 2016, 04:21:58 PM

Title: Motor tuning
Post by: kharrisonkevin on September 18, 2016, 04:21:58 PM

My home got hit by lightning so I had to buy a new computer. I got everything off my hard drive. The only screen  that will not come up is motor tuning. What can I do?

Title: Re: Motor tuning
Post by: RICH on September 18, 2016, 04:31:21 PM

What version of Mach and what Win program?

RICH

Title: Re: Motor tuning
Post by: kharrisonkevin on September 18, 2016, 04:32:33 PM

I am running mach3 on windows 10

Title: Re: Motor tuning
Post by: RICH on September 18, 2016, 04:36:11 PM

Here are the requirements for a pc, doesn't mention Win 10.........

Requirements if using the parallel port for machine control: •Desktop PC (Laptops are not supported) with at least one parallel port
•32-bit version of Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 (64-bit versions will not work)
•1Ghz CPU
•512MB RAM
•Non-integrated Video Card with 32MB RAM(Large G-code files, especially 3D files will require a video card with 512MB RAM or higher)
Requirements if using an external motion device for machine control: •An appropriate external motion controller (options can be found on the Plugins page)
•Desktop or Laptop with Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8
•1Ghz CPU
•512MB RAM
•Video Card with 32MB RAM(Large G-code files, especially 3D files will require a video card with 512MB RAM or higher)

RICH

Title: Re: Motor tuning
Post by: RICH on September 18, 2016, 04:42:21 PM

BTW,
Both of my current  "dated" PC's, one a laptop other a tower and they both  use a dual boot systems.
Xp is used for Mach 3 and WIn 7 64 -bit version is used for normal things, but , I use a dedicated Xp
pc for my cnc machines.
FWIW,
RICH

Need to say, to use  the dual boot your will be memory limited / reduced.

Title: Re: Motor tuning
Post by: kharrisonkevin on September 18, 2016, 04:45:52 PM

I got lots of ram and storage twice as much as a normal computer

Title: Re: Motor tuning
Post by: RICH on September 18, 2016, 04:51:01 PM

Do a search ( windows 10) and you will find info relative  to using windows 10 and Mach.


Can't be of more help, just somewhat deliberately dated on the Win systems, :)

RICH

Title: Re: Motor tuning
Post by: rdean on September 19, 2016, 04:31:14 PM

Same thing happened to me once with a XP machine.  Everything worked but no motor tuning page.  I saved my xml file to a different location and reinstalled Mach3.  Brought the file back to Mach3 folder and everything is fine again.

Ray

Title: Re: Motor tuning
Post by: Hood on September 21, 2016, 06:23:33 PM

Did you install Mach or just simply copy the folder over from the old drive?
Hood

Title: Re: Motor tuning
Post by: kharrisonkevin on September 21, 2016, 06:29:18 PM

We just copied it from the old hard drive. We don't know if it was cerupted or not.

Title: Re: Motor tuning
Post by: Hood on September 21, 2016, 06:34:38 PM

Rename the current Mach3 folder to something like Mach3Old then install Mach (Ver 062 is the latest I would use) to the default C:\Mach3 location. Once done you can then copy your xml, macro folder and anything custom back from Mach3Old to your new Mach3 install folder and see if that helps.
Hood