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General Mach Discussion / Re: PC Crashed Again

« on: February 14, 2010, 04:05:24 PM »

Thanks again my man for understanding and helping me out, could not get my new hard drive today so still faffing about but hope to be back up and breaking cutters and mangling wood soon :-) have found the files you mentioned now, so thanks to you i should be able to save some time transferring to the new system.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: PC Crashed Again

« on: February 13, 2010, 12:38:36 PM »

PS shoulda used a spell checker texting gets u into bad habits typing wise LOL:-) look past the crappy spelling in my post Please .

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General Mach Discussion / Re: PC Crashed Again

« on: February 13, 2010, 12:36:25 PM »

cheers hood . its most probebly paranoia on mypart now cos o the grief with my router Pc , im only down in london so we really dont hardly ever see the stuff  you guuys are dealing with . going to a PCX fair tomoroww so hopefully by the evening my baby should be back up and running properly , thanks again good buddy for the feedback. can i ask one more question ... regading mach files for backup . Are ther certain files that i can save and transfer over to a new machine in the event of hostory repeating itself .. INI - Dat - Sys Files that i can jucst copy over to the new system to save time reinventing  the wheel as it were ... i get the impression that when config parameters are changed and you do a save function they must be stuck somewhere. so is it just  one file or many .. save a new config and then did a search for files that were recently updated but got several files so not sure which one was important  :-)

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General Mach Discussion / PC Crashed Again

« on: February 13, 2010, 09:58:10 AM »

  Hi Guys Not having much luck at the moment . Recently lost my CNc router PC hard drive and since then have seen another one playing up ( Driver Pulse test  erratic or saying toooooooo Slow )  stepper Motor s operate But very jerky and not what im used to seeing from my Baby :-( have got my settings loaded back as per the original machine but now on another PC and something is definietly not right ...My Option is now to invest in a new MOBO hardrive  and Ram and canibalise all the other bits to make a new CNC router PC system ...then i had a thought , with all these portable external drives around i have to ask can mach3 be run form one of these ? the reason being my workshop ( OK OK large Shed Insulated but still bloody cold at this time of year ;-) the router PC tends to live there and don't really want connect / disconnect it everytime i have to stop work for a while,  but it occured to me that if i had all my fil;es screensets etc on an external USB harddrive say, i could get the best of both worls portability/security wise... does any one know if this is (a ) allowed and (B) is it possible ....  if Cold is a factor in the PC dyding then will have to do iit the hard way summers almost here :-) but just a thought before i commit to the new system.. have a full license so dont mean to step out of line or invalidate it by asking thi question .

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Cannot access Motor tuning option ?

« on: February 12, 2010, 04:26:03 PM »

Hi Phil in the end thats just what i had to do , Dont quite know why thats happened , i guess it's just  frustration after seeing my Router PC hard drive die... I had to wipe - uninstall all my Mach 3 files including alll my downloaded screen sets  ( Bugger ) and Blow me if after the 3rd try during the install the Driver test Came up and Voila she's all good again ( Fingers crossed ) now all i have to do is sort out all the little tweeks and setting i had on my working System ,,,( Shoulda Gone to Specsavers s or should that be backed up my settings files ) LOL:-0 anyways Phil Thanke for taking the time to help me with this . hopefully sometime tommorow i can get the stuff done and posted here for all to see and this time i will screendump all the setting pages LOL:-)  hate when pc's fix themsleves lie this but at least she's up and running .would have liked to have nailed something to know what to look out for the next time but the driver tip was a big step in the right direction .

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Cannot access Motor tuning option ?

« on: February 12, 2010, 01:13:05 PM »

hi Phil Thanks for that i'll  try ... dont shoot me down i have Mach 3 demo running on my main PC , But cant remember if the driver thing was an extra install or should it be on the system by default    soory mate but do appreciate all the help .. Bloody PC's Just wehn your on a rool they Go T... Up.. My woork shop was freezing so dont think that did th hardrive any favours .. Cheers Good Buddy

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General Mach Discussion / Cannot access Motor tuning option ?

« on: February 12, 2010, 12:52:05 PM »

Sorry to be a pest i am a registered full license user but my router PC has Died and need=

 to Rebuild and start all over again ... The main problem is that on the se=

cond PC that i Have tried i cannot seem to get the Motor tunning screen to =

appear all else seems ok ?  and i  have already Reloaded MACH3 .but the problem
 is still there .. another clue is that i cant seem to Run the Pulse test P=
rogram so is there something wrong with this other PC ?? Please help want too cut Wood and Plastic :-) finally got some time to play and system wont le=
t me .. Cheer for any tips guys