Milltronics Partner 4 w/ Centurion V controller
Acquired machine last year with many probs. Help from hear and my local electronics whiz tracked down several bad components and we got going with a couple of ultra simple parts(conversational programs). This has been a neglected project which I am now resuming.
Am now trying to program a more elaborate part. I've entered about 35 events. When I power up the machine and go to my program, I am finding unrelated events. I have already deleted old programs and have lots of storage space. When I open my new in-progress program, I attempt to go through event-by-event to review and confirm. I get to maybe the 15th event and a strange one appears,which I delete and/or edit. After a couple of "next event" moves, I lose my screen and get an error message (#100_ disc read error. cut power and repower). I then get back into the program a and it crashes again. The couple of smaller old programs are still OK and you can scroll through all their events_ no prob. For that reason, I hope my hard drive is still OK.
OR IS IT?
Anybody have any ideas? I can't see what I can be doing in the way of entry errors that could create these incidents. I am afraid it is a computer-related problem. (Bad hard drive?)
As always, any suggestions appreciated.
I am told a Centurion VII upgrade would be good but, being totally green in all this, I want to get control of the beast as is before getting involved with another devil I don't know.
Partner 4/Centurion V problems
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Originally Posted by
sportybob
Ron, my 2c worth. Some times data gets corrupted, reloading data into "corrupted space" nets you more corrupted data. Take the 2 minuts to do the reformatting, it could save you a lot of fustration.
Thunder storms and power surges and poor grounding can cause all sorts of problems in any computer system.
sporty bob
Bob (and others),
Thanks for the advice. I think I may have to plunge into the re-formatting as you suggest. This is a multi-pronged pain-in-the-butt because I am not a great computer user and I am also just getting my feet wet with CNC. I want to start off with the Conversational programming as it is a gentle transition from my manual operation experience.
Meantime, thanks to all for the help thus far.
Ron
Milltronics reformatting SRAM
Hey Ron, It is not as hard as it sounds. during boot up look for a "count down" on the upper left portion of the screen, ie: 9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 before it hits -1 press any key on the front panel. it will kick you to a DOS screen. select F2, reformat. select Y (yes) to all the screen inputs, when it ask to format another select N (no). it will reboot to the CNC software.
All that being said, hopefully you have a back up parameter disk.. you can then go yo F7 (prams) and select "load" (after inserting the "P-disk" into the floppy drive) it will load the parameters from the floppy.
If you don't have a "P-disk" then you will have to reload your machine parameters from the parameters list located in the manual that came with your machine. Then make a back of the P-disk for "next time".
C1 controls select program, files, save, arrow down to "parameters" select and save.
C5, C6, C7 select F7(prams), (save). it will "write a P-disk for you."
For all others, make sure you have a back up P-disk. It will save you time and fustration.
IE: reformat with a P-disk, 2 minuts, reformat with out a P-disk useing the P-list in the manual, 1 hour. with out a list from the manual .....? Call Milltronics service and ask for the file or list. 952-442-1401 YOU WILL NEED YOUR MACHINE SERIAL #. Always a good thing to have when you call. Just like ordering parts for your car, you need "make, model and year". In Milltronics speak, and most other MT mfg's it is the machine serial number that leads to answers.
Sportybob