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SmoothStepper USB / Re: Smoothstepper IO errors

« on: July 04, 2011, 04:17:31 PM »

Yes, I did.

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: Smoothstepper IO errors

« on: July 04, 2011, 02:01:06 AM »

Jeff,

Thank you for the pointers. Sorry for the delays in replying, was caught up in other work

I tried uninstalling the driver as you suggested. It ran fine for a couple of hours and then went back to throwing the IO errors. I am at wits' end.

Sam.

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: Smoothstepper IO errors

« on: June 17, 2011, 01:37:53 AM »

I tried all the steps in the document mentioned above. Now the FT_IO Errors are gone, but I have a new issue.

As long as the Smoothstepper is  not connected to the breakout board, all works correctly. As soon as I plug in the breakout board via the ribbon cable, Mach3 is frozen as soon as it starts. If I then unplug the USB cable to the smoothstepper, it starts up, but reports another error: Could not write to USB chip with serial # ******************x.

If I connect just the BoB to the laptop using the parallel cable, everything works as it should

I am now totally lost

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: Smoothstepper IO errors

« on: June 16, 2011, 01:42:06 PM »

Thanks, Jeff.

I will try and rebuild the computer this weekend and see how it goes.

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SmoothStepper USB / Smoothstepper IO errors

« on: June 09, 2011, 01:45:13 AM »

I have a Smoothstepper connected to a T42 laptop running Windows XP SP3.

Ever so often, I see an error message: FT_IO_ERROR. This causes Mach 3 to hang and the only way to recover is to kill it via task manager. Needless to say, if this happens when a program is running, the job is ruined.

I have been through this board and done the following:

Isolated the Smoothstepper physically and electrically from the rest of the electronics.
Changed USB cables.
Switched to Standard PC mode on the computer.

Can anyone point me to what else I could do? I am literally tearing my hair out...