Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 06 11:07:20 EST 2020 | richardcargill
Ok.. ignore all the above, the X1 card has failed- nothing more. Can anyone recommend a supplier for a replacement ?
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 06 14:02:00 EST 2020 | dman97
Have you tried to open the MINT program and re download the drivers to the cards? Sometimes the cards fail because the battery does not hold sufficient charge to keep the files intact.
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 06 19:12:52 EST 2020 | dekhead
If you are unable to get to Diagnostics to exit to DOS; Try the following: ‘F5’ (WHILE STARTING MS-DOS) –OR ‘CTRL’ – ‘C’ (WHILE HIMEM IS TESTING EXTENDED MEMORY) Once in DOS, CDMINT Type LOAD to download MINTS from HDD to cards. DEKHEAD
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 07 05:18:10 EST 2020 | richardcargill
Thankyou so much Dekhead, that worked perfectly. We're up and away again. I'm assuming the card just got it's data corrupted somehow. I'll know next time !!! Thanks again
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 07 07:55:24 EST 2020 | dekhead
If it happened after holiday shutdown; good chance you have onboard battery going bad (battery dropped too low during extended shutdown). Replace batteries to alleviate future occurrence.
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 06 11:41:52 EST 2020 | robl
JDT http://www.DEKHEAD.com if you are in the USA Adamtech http://www.adamtech.co.uk/contact.asp if you are in Europe There are some good Chinese suppliers, but a lot of Far East cards can be tarnished & with a reduced life due to running in a high h
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 06 16:19:32 EST 2020 | richardcargill
haven't tried the MINT as it won't let me get that far !! Swapping the Eproms with card 1 and changing the identifier will let it get to the 'Press SYSTEM key' part of the startup though, then it fails on card 1 instead of 0 so I'll give that a try i
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 06 05:53:47 EST 2020 | richardcargill
First switch on after the holidays and this year it's the Dek265 playing up. On switch on, the screen comes up with "motor comms failure, card 0 axis123 " . On looking at the cards there seems to be a power feed missing ( see attached pict
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 30 07:39:29 EDT 2008 | realchunks
Is the green box on top of the transformer? If so you can by-pass it.
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 30 08:03:25 EDT 2008 | chineechooze
You need switch out the cognex vision card.
