I recently purchased and wired up this machine and it won't boot the Creative Evolution program due to this error "protection device not found, program terminated!c:>." Anybody have any experience with this program? Not sure what protection device it is looking for and have not found anything in the manuals or online other than the emergency stop, but I don't even get to the eso at startup. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Creative Evolution CNC on Defiance VTX-1 start up error
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Milland
Diamond
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- Jul 6, 2006
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- Hillsboro, New Hampshire
Is this the company? Geonics Inc - Creative Evolution CNC
If so, give them a call and ask if there's supposed to be a dongle or equivalent on the machine. If it's actually a hardware piece they should be able to describe it and price a replacement, if it's a software run routine they should know what it is and why it might be failing.
If so, give them a call and ask if there's supposed to be a dongle or equivalent on the machine. If it's actually a hardware piece they should be able to describe it and price a replacement, if it's a software run routine they should know what it is and why it might be failing.
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Plastic
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I have one of these machines with CE can you give more details to what happens?
Do you have all of the controller cables inserted correctly?
After you type CNC, Does it detect the PMAC card?
After this you should get the ESO fault
I Just double checked the controller cables and made sure there are no bent pins. All good there. Here's my process. Power machine and chiller/spindle pump. Boot computer. Computer boots into DOS and asks if I want to insert floppy for .nc. I type N and enter. The very next screen is the error code. It doesn't go to the cecnc program so I can't check eso or go through that sequence. If I type cecnc and hit enter it gives the same error message. Kinda stuck not knowing what protection device it wants to see.
Milland
Diamond
- Joined
- Jul 6, 2006
- Location
- Hillsboro, New Hampshire
LOL. Nice. It was actually underneath the bottom drawer. No idea how it got under there. Must have bounced up and behind one of the drawers during transit.
