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Mach4 General Discussion / Mach4 on Win7x86 crashes when opening dialogues
« on: June 15, 2019, 06:26:37 AM »
Hello there, first post here as I'm fairly new to the CNC world.
Currently setting up a small router (R-CNC from makerfr.com) with a freshly installed Win7 Home Premium SP1 x86 machine. Its got a Pentium 4 3.00 HT (3.3GHz overclock) and 2Gigs of RAM. I'm using a PMDX-416 external motion controller with the corresponding plugin and thats all working fine.
Using the demo version to test the setup.
When playing around with the steps per unit -wizard and the Mach4 control dialogue I noticed it crashes after switching dialogues a few times. And it seems to be random. At one time I could use it for like 10min switching between the wizard, the MDI and the Motor control dialogue and another time it crashed on the first try.
What I mean by crashing is that the new window doesn't open, but is visible in the taskbar. I can close it from there and re-open the wizard but its the same.
When it crashes in the control dialogue it seems to be held up during the screen refresh that it does every time it opens a dialogue and everything just freezes, I have to kill the process.
Upon next startup 90% of the time it probably works. But after opening and closing dialogues a few times it crashes again.
Any hints what to look out for? Going to try it without the overclock, I tested it with prime 95 but you never know.
Greetings from zhe Germany!
Currently setting up a small router (R-CNC from makerfr.com) with a freshly installed Win7 Home Premium SP1 x86 machine. Its got a Pentium 4 3.00 HT (3.3GHz overclock) and 2Gigs of RAM. I'm using a PMDX-416 external motion controller with the corresponding plugin and thats all working fine.
Using the demo version to test the setup.
When playing around with the steps per unit -wizard and the Mach4 control dialogue I noticed it crashes after switching dialogues a few times. And it seems to be random. At one time I could use it for like 10min switching between the wizard, the MDI and the Motor control dialogue and another time it crashed on the first try.
What I mean by crashing is that the new window doesn't open, but is visible in the taskbar. I can close it from there and re-open the wizard but its the same.
When it crashes in the control dialogue it seems to be held up during the screen refresh that it does every time it opens a dialogue and everything just freezes, I have to kill the process.
Upon next startup 90% of the time it probably works. But after opening and closing dialogues a few times it crashes again.
Any hints what to look out for? Going to try it without the overclock, I tested it with prime 95 but you never know.
Greetings from zhe Germany!