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General Mach Discussion / Re: stalling

« on: January 19, 2007, 07:07:17 AM »

Version is 2.026 debounce is currently 0
 Brandy

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General Mach Discussion / Re: stalling

« on: January 18, 2007, 10:17:46 PM »

Debounce?? I apologize for my newby ignorance.
 Brandy

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General Mach Discussion / Re: stalling

« on: January 18, 2007, 05:22:36 PM »

Brandy, Have you viewed topic (Please Help) in General Mach dicussion?

Brett

Brett,
 I have now. I have never used my network card and recently disabled it just to see what happened. No change to my problems. Also I have never had the erratic driver test results he is getting. My driver tests look good.

Brandy 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: stalling

« on: January 18, 2007, 02:31:49 PM »

Brian ,
 How do you go about doing that?


Brett,
This sounds logical but does not explain why thge desktop and laptop show differant when they are set up exactly the same.

Thanks for the ideas this really is helping,  Brandy

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General Mach Discussion / Re: stalling

« on: January 18, 2007, 08:19:22 AM »

One more differance I have noticed between laptop and desktop. In the diagnostics page the Port1 Pins Current State. More of these are lit up on the desktop than on the laptop.  What do these lights actually represent??
 Brandy

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General Mach Discussion / Re: stalling

« on: January 17, 2007, 09:58:10 PM »

Yes it has a built in wireless (so did the old system) but I know little about it as I have never used it.  What brought you to think of your wireless?

 Brandy

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General Mach Discussion / stalling

« on: January 17, 2007, 08:47:54 PM »

I have been using mach3 for little over a year with a dell laptop with no problems.  I started having some problems with my machine and in the process of troubleshooting it I fried my laptop. I did my repairs on my machine and replaced the laptop with an identicle one to eliminate the whole Mach vs. laptop issues. When I run a circle program to identify any inconsistancies I get occasional machine stalls. These stalls are completly random in timing, duration and even axis. I have noticed no patterns in these stalls. I ran the circle test in a continous loop for an hour and a half with my desktop pc without failiure, so I believe this must be a laptop issue. I am totally baffled though as I am running an identicle system that had worked flawlessly for a year. I have installed and reinstalled mach and the entire os for that matter and compared side by side all the mach settings with my desktop. I have followed the optimazation file as I had on the previous laptop and the driver tests pass with flying colors. This is actually a short list of all I had done to try and isolate the problem but the end result is the same. I am out of ideas. When I decide to giveup and just go with a desktop I will still always wonder.
 Brandy Ender

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General Mach Discussion / Re: error messages

« on: December 17, 2006, 11:12:35 AM »

Not certain but I think it should change your dros to count down to zero for each move of line code. I'm using a different screen set so I can't test it for you right now. Give it a go in the air on some code and let me know.

Brett

I tried this out and found that, when to go button is active, rather than the dro's giving position coordinates they give distance between current position and position of where it is headed.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: error messages

« on: December 16, 2006, 07:06:24 PM »

I still do not know what the problem was but....
 I've been wanting to format the harddrive and start over for awhile due to some other unrelated issues, so that is exactly what I did. I now have a system dedicated entirely to Mach3 and was successful in installing v2.0

 One last question: What does the "To Go" button do?

 Thanks, B. Ender
 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: error messages

« on: December 16, 2006, 12:42:42 PM »

I have tried downloading and reinstalling
Ports and pins are good
New screenset has no effect

I also
 Completly removed all traces of Mach and reinstalled.... no go
 I reinstalled  v1.8 and it still works as well as ever
 
 I installed on a differant computer... all works well
 I did a side by side comparison on both computers only differances are in Diagnostics first computer has no pulse freq, time in int., or port1 pins current state is all blank
 
 One last major differance first computer is laptop. (Keep in mind v1.8 works well and has been doing so for nearly a year)

  My conclusion will be that V2.0 is less laptop friendly then v1.8 until perhaps someone else can come up with new ideas. Until then I am going back to v1.8

 Thankyou, B. Ender