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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...
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...