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General Mach Discussion / Re: Hanging on startup
« on: February 27, 2013, 02:15:18 PM »
Further investigation:
1.) Downloaded the Gecko G540 manual. Tested the watchdog system, disabled it and the controller appears to work fine. It looks like a pin 16 issue.
2.) So. I looked at the parallel setup in the laptop setup. it was set up for transmit only. Probably because the battery discharged all the way, losing the bios setup. Changed it back to two way communication... no change.
3.) The red red light on the gecko never changes when doing either the driver test or initializing the Mach3 so it still looks like a communication issue.
Why would it hang the entire XP? Perhaps because it is attempting to take over the lower level IO functionality of the OS?
Any ideas are still appreciated. Will continue this forum blog thread for those who follow behind.
tim in san jose
1.) Downloaded the Gecko G540 manual. Tested the watchdog system, disabled it and the controller appears to work fine. It looks like a pin 16 issue.
2.) So. I looked at the parallel setup in the laptop setup. it was set up for transmit only. Probably because the battery discharged all the way, losing the bios setup. Changed it back to two way communication... no change.
3.) The red red light on the gecko never changes when doing either the driver test or initializing the Mach3 so it still looks like a communication issue.
Why would it hang the entire XP? Perhaps because it is attempting to take over the lower level IO functionality of the OS?
Any ideas are still appreciated. Will continue this forum blog thread for those who follow behind.
tim in san jose