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General Mach Discussion / Re: Machine pausing randomly

« on: September 12, 2010, 10:55:51 PM »

I uninstalled all other programs and then disabled everything unnecessary in Task Manager.  Although everything is seemingly working OK.....the whole setup is very marginal.  Pretty much half of what the stated minimum requirements request.  256MB ram and 500MHZ processor or so.  I guess I'm surprised it even runs at all.  After running a 5 minute program with a bunch of interpolated holes and pockets.....returning to zero yields about a .005" loss every time.  Before I get too wrapped up in chasing my tail, I'm going to get a better computer and proceed from there.  In 3 axis simultaneous moves .....the CPU usage is very close to 100%.  I thought it was a better computer than it is. 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Machine pausing randomly

« on: September 11, 2010, 08:47:25 PM »

Thanks for the suggestions.  The computer I'm using is dedicated to Mach, meaning I don't use it for anything else, but it had a lot of other crap on in.  I got rid of everything but Mach and disabled all but the necessary processes and so far all has been well.  I wasn't able to turn off the toolpath view.....cause I just couldn't find what you were referring to.  Could you be a bit more specific?

Thanks again.

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General Mach Discussion / Machine pausing randomly

« on: September 11, 2010, 11:15:28 AM »

I just got my machine up and running today on Mach 3 demo.  Most of the time it seems to run fine, but periodically it will pause for a half second or so while running.  It never happens in the same spot, and I am definitely not near the acceleration or speed limits of my steppers to make them lose steps.  The program just pauses for a bit (along with the DRO's), then resumes.  No lost steps measured.

Any ideas? 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Cannot Download Mach3

« on: August 29, 2010, 01:44:34 PM »

AVG was giving me trouble......thanks.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Cannot Download Mach3

« on: August 29, 2010, 10:35:51 AM »

I wondered the same thing......I disabled windows firewall, and it still would not download.  Is there a chance that my AVG is giving me trouble?  I will remove that and give it a try, too.

Mike

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General Mach Discussion / Cannot Download Mach3

« on: August 29, 2010, 09:36:36 AM »

I can't seem to download Mach 3 from the site.  It says there is a problem with the server and that I might try back later.  I have, and was able to download......but the exe would not run.  Said bad crc, or something like that, would not decompress the file.

Anybody have and ideas?