[billetbones]

I've read a couple posts regarding the shut down of the machine and a realtime error but haven't solved my problem. I changed the power supply out like some suggested and that didn't help.
Any help would be appreciated.

[meckardt55]

If you read some posts, you should know about the watch battery that goes bad on the RTC board and the correct way to replace it. It may have gone dead and the BIOS will need to be replaced. Contact SIEMENS 1-800-879-8079 to get the BIOS installed.

Mike cncmachineservices (dot) com

[maver1ck]

In those threads I think it is also pretty clear that Siemens is not the only place that can reflash the BIOS on the RT Boards. I have done it for many of my customers, as well as quite a few on CNCZone. I think Siemens has brought their prices down recently, but I started offering this as a service to my customer's years ago when one was charged almost $1000 by Siemens just to replace the battery in the board. On a side note, I also had another customer that had a dead battery mistakenly identified by their Cincinnati Technician as a bad board and when their service tech was done, they had over $7900 in new control parts and several thousand in labor charges for an issue I could have fixed in about 30 minutes with a $5 battery.

[meckardt55]

maver1ck,
Can you send us your contact info so that we can send you RTC boards with dead batteries?

Mike cncmachineservices (dot) com