New Mobo

[cropwell]

I am not against Linux, but I didn't know there was a CNC flavoured one. I have got Ubuntu, so I will load that and try it. However, I am going to try one more time to use Uncle Bill's operating system on another computer.

[Jonathan]

pop over one night with a packet of hob nobs and we'll bang them on the T&C grinder and make them into proper engraving cutters.

Two packets surely as they're half price at Sainsbury's!

I have got Ubuntu, so I will load that and try it.

Just to be clear you have to use the version specified on the LinuxCNC site, else it almost certainly wont work.

[John S]

[QUOTE=cropwell;32713 Is there a market for 3.17mm diameter TC rods about 25mm long ?[/QUOTE]

pop over one night with a packet of hob nobs and we'll bang them on the T&C grinder and make them into proper engraving cutters.
Not a Tuesday night, that's pub night, bastard of a job but someone has to do it.

[cropwell]

Well tonight I got the machine jogging smoothly.
Possible fixing agent was make port LPT2 on PCI board to operate as EPP.
Now I have to repair all the damage done by re-install, set up my tool height macro and get back to where I should have been before the old computer started hanging and get on with what I wanted to do a week ago.

Thanks for all who have helped me.

Rob

And a packet of HobNobs for the bloke that said the magic words that fixed it 'ECP won't work'.

[cropwell]

Would you think this computer thing couldn't get more silly - well it has. I got a new mobo and various other bits and went back to my friends shop in Nottingham (PC Doctor) and we put the system together to find it dead, not even a beep. So we tried other processors and memory combinations but still no life. Then we looked at the board - it had a bent 'pin' on the Processor socket and it looked like it was factory bent.
So I went back to Web Systems in Bulwell and showed them the faulty board and they insisted that they would fix it, so I waited for a long time with nowhere to sit (I have a mobility problem) and they eventually conceded and replaced the board. Now here's the interesting bit - they wanted all the accessories from the new board, so they were still in their packets and sellable (to the next dumb punter ?).

They kept me waiting so long that PC Doctor had shut shop for the day and I have to go back tomorrow to continue the farce......

[cropwell]

Let's hope this farce is over. I am fed up of hiding in wardrobes with my trousers round my ankles :)

The machine was up and running yesterday with only a minor fault to find and fix ( X axis home sensor had a broken solder joint in the control box. It just had to be the most difficult to get to.

Frau Townshend did not find the Spitfire ads amusing, but I did.

TTFN

[mocha]

I am fed up of hiding in wardrobes with my trousers round my ankles :)

snip
TTFN

er, why is your machine in the wardrobe?

[cropwell]

To stop Baron Rix finding it. You may be too young to know about the Whitehall Farces, but try googling it anyway.

[mocha]

No, not too young to remember that, and a band leader doing rather well and becoming head of the BBC! lol. We were quite disappointed to let go our lounge orchestra when the wireless took off.

I remember Brian Rix, (didn't know about the Baron part). But of course now you mention it, farce, wardrobe and trousers around the ankles... should have guessed that one!

[cropwell]

I am happy to report that the computer now seems to be settled in its task. with a comfy new Intel based board. I actually got a piece of work done in one cut without spoiling it by the machine freezing.

Onwards and Sideways......
Rob