well, I know you are all rivited to your seats wondering "what's next in the ongoing saga of mikev vs ESS"... well, I won't keep you waiting. so, followed instruction from a thread over at cnczone. In case anyone ends up wondering the sm... "second menu over and at the bottom of the list will be 'Reset Dev Sel..." so I loaded the gecko xml profile... went in and hit this button... restarted, and everything works.
at this point... idk if it's config issues or just how these motors are... but they sort of 'ramp up' as opposed to "jump to action" like my old drives. I suppose I now need to look into tuning these motors? any advice in that realm would be most appreciated.