RV-4S Help - RV Placer stuck when load a job file

[laurianus]

If someone have an idea why RV Placer stuck and need to force it close after I load a job file?

[laurianus]

I moved the machine and after I reconnected it was not working anymore... after load the job the arm should move it as I know but it does not. I checked all the connectors few times and seems to be
connected OK.

[Mike]

Did you try re-seating the ISA card? Check to see if the LEDs on the DSP cards flash when it should be doing its startup homing procedure

[laurianus]

Did you try re-seating the ISA card? Check to see if the LEDs on the DSP cards flash when it should be doing its startup homing procedure

The ISA card seems to work... all 4 LEDs are blinking and the DSP tests are finished successfully but when I try to start Motor tests I receive an windows error (Illegal operation) and does not start. How can I check if the output signals from ISA card are OK? What else I can check?

[Mike]

Is this a job file that definitely worked before?
I've seen RV Place crash at startup with a malformed file - I think the issue was a too-long component name imported via my RVImport utility.

[laurianus]

Is this a job file that definitely worked before?
I've seen RV Place crash at startup with a malformed file - I think the issue was a too-long component name imported via my RVImport utility.

Yes... the file was worked before... and I test with multiple files and the same error.

I have updated to windows 98se from win95 (different HDD) and move the machine in otehr location in the same time. On the HDD with win95 I didn't change anything. I start from windows 95 HDD and also didn;t work.

One more question about windows 98... I have found the drivers for video card but I did not find the drivers for ISA controller... It needs drivers? Can you please send it to me?

Laurian

[Mike]

I don't think it needs any drivers once you have a bootable PC - the motor driver is accessed directly, and I'm pretty sure the capture card driver is installed with, or internal to the RV software.

[laurianus]

I don't think it needs any drivers once you have a bootable PC - the motor driver is accessed directly, and I'm pretty sure the capture card driver is installed with, or internal to the RV software.

I found the problem and I want to share for some one else which may have this problem.
I do not know how after I installed the Windows 98SE one port com was disabled in Bios. In windows both ports COM was reported OK so I didn't figure out so fast. More of that after I enabled it was reported as COM4 so I dig a little more to discover the port number in Windows 95/98 can not be changed... so to have COM2 as RV software wants you just need to change COM resources (memory address).