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General Mach Discussion / Jog speed slower than feedrate?

« on: July 21, 2006, 11:20:10 AM »

Hi.
I just hooked up my gecko's and started using Mach3 (from xylotex and mach2)
I can feed the axes to about 100 ipm, but my rapid moves and jog speeds are down in the 30's. What am I missing here?
Colin

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General Mach Discussion / Centrino duo dual processor notebook and mach3

« on: July 04, 2006, 05:18:55 PM »

After purchasing a used PC to run my machines, Art and I couldn't get it working so I resorted to using my home PC.....
I just received my new Dell Centrino duo Latitude D820 with port replicator (docking station) with a Printer port. Got this model specifically to see if I could use it to run my machines.
Upon first Driver test, the graph was a mess, as I kind of expected it to be. I went into MSConfig and turned off qttask and a few other items. This created a bit of a difference, but still ugly graph and lots of spikes etc.
Because this is a dual processor, I am afraid to do some of the optimizations, specifically #6 which is changing from ACPI PC to standard PC. In device manager under computer, it actually says ACPI multiprocessor PC, not just ACPI PC. The driver choices I have are...

ACPI multiprocessor PC (current driver)
ACPI PC
MPS Multiprocessor PC
Standard PC

I am afraid that if I select Standard PC, this may do something bad with respect to the dual processor.

 I am also reluctant to turn off several other items in MSConfig, mainly those pertaining to wireless.
Does anyone have experience with a dual processor machine, and getting it to work with Mach?
One other note, every second time I run the driver test, the computer freezes...hard reboot. Just opening Mach 3 has also frozen the computer twice.....

Cheers,
Colin