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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: andy_con on October 19, 2016, 12:53:55 PM
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just purchased myself a brand new dell inspiron laptop, i3 processor, 6gb ram.
my cnc setup is mach3 with ESS.
when running the cnc I keep getting the low data warning and mach stops mid program. am not in the workshop at the moment so cant get a screen print of error.
all I have open on the laptop is mach3, cambam, autocad 2006 and a single internet explorer page. I used to run much more on my old laptop
I never had this issue on my 8 year old laptop, just my brand new one.
please help
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all I have open on the laptop is mach3, cambam, autocad 2006 and a single internet explorer page. I used to run much more on my old laptop
The recommendation is that you can run all these applications on your laptop but not whilst Mach3 is running.
Tweakie.
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gee, thanks
I might as well just carry on using my 8 year old laptop then
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what is the lookahead set at?
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don't know, where is that option located?
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General configuration tab.... explained here: http://warp9td.com/index.php/faq/faq-mach3#WatchdogOrRunsOutOfData
suggestion, have a work through the warp9 FAQ section as it is way better than the manuals ever were and covers a whole raft of common items.
you've also not mentioned what (your new laptop) operating system you are running, but presuming its W10, then there have been issues with automatic updates stopping the ess communicating with the PC because W10 is doing some antivirus stuff.
Really the best solution for cnc is to have a dedicated cnc PC.... so it has one purpose in life.... ok, my setup is a little different, I have a cheap old PC running XP, 2gb graphics card (didn't have another purpose for it), 4gb ram I think and a hdd (may upgrade to SSD at some point, the 120gb drives without a case seem nice and cheap at the moment). no antivirus, just windows with all the updates, an old copy of autocad (so I can convert dwg's to dxf and do minor mods), sheetcam , and my cnc software (mach3, mach4, uccnc) and it runs happy feeding it memory sticks with software and gcode / sheetcam job files. If I were you, I'd clear out your 8 year old laptop (reformat, maybe SSD, max ram it will take) and load up whatever flavour of windows you prefer (and that your laptop has drivers for)..... note, some laptops have a emergency boot partition which holds the backup copy of windows .... need to read the manual of how you get a complete reinstall from it but it will have all your drivers.... although its sometimes beneficial to go to the manufacturers website and get the latest drives and bios updates and once they are loaded you should never have to do them again..... I would turn off the wifi on a laptop too so that its not potentially polling when trying to run cnc software.
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been working through the ess guide as posted above but I'm having an issue where mach wont save any settings I change.
so if I change the look ahead and click save settings, restart mach and they haven't saved.
if I change the watchdog to 3.1 and click save, again restart mach and its not saved.
whats going on here?
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Type the number in, press the enter key, then apply or save settings before changing tabs.
To load settings into the ess, shutdown and restart mach3...
Let us know if it worked
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no when I shut down mach and restart settings are not saved
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tool table wont save
general config wont save
ess config wont save
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Short answer .... I don't know
Longer answer (guess) .... what version of windows are you running? Are you running the Mach3.exe under administrator rights .... given you are modifying setup files windows may be blocking you as it thinks you haven't got the user rights....
go to the mach3 folder
C:\mach3\
list all files by details.
sort files by type
go to the exe files and select each one with one left mouse button click and then one right button click..... there should be (depending upon widows version) an option of "run program as administrator" or something to that effect... click and run the program.... the will mostly fail to run...... not a problem all you are trying to do is tell windows that you are giving the program run as administrator rights.
When complete, shut any running exes and then run mach3 .... try to save your settings
it may work (I've had it with other program).
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Bits are highlighted in yellow here explaining the same thing.
http://warp9td.com/index.php/sw
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a bit more info
I have a denford triac and denford microrouter side by side. both have separate ess in, I run them both from the same laptop (not together)
the microrouter I don't have any issues with, works just fine. all these issues are just with my triac
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adminstrator rights should not be a problem.
Presume you have setup two profiles, one for each machine?
If you have done this you should have two profile *.XML files within your mach3 folder, and each of which should relate to the correct profile....
You should then be able to edit (and save) them.
How have you setup your machines? (profile wise)