CNC_Chip_Thin
Plastic
- Joined
- Sep 18, 2016
- Location
- Northwest
Hey all,
Long time reader, first time poster. I'll save my introduction for another rainy day but glad to join the community.
Came in this morning to our 97' Haas VF-6 throwing alarm #213 Program RAM CRC Error. The book simply states "Electronics fault, call your dealer". I'm hoping we don't have a burnt out board in the back because that sounds expensive.
I deleted some of my recent programs from memory in case one of them was bad and to free up space. Alarm is still there.
Next step was going to be backing up all parameters, programs, offsets etc... I was going to remove everything and upload it all again and see if that helped. This machine was retrofitted from 3-1/2" Floppy to a USB input to make things easier a few years ago. Then it was hard wired in to our network so I have been transferring programs via ethernet cable using DNC server. Which has worked great, fast, convenient and simple to use. But now that I'm looking to back everything up from the machine I can't figure out how to send anything but a program via etherenet and DNC. All that I've read has pointed too backup via direct USB or 3-1/2" Floppy. IT has disabled all USB ports in the building so that's not an option as of now.
So to sum it all up I have 2 questions:
Am I going to have to beg IT to turn on my USB just to get everything backed up or is it possible via DNC?
If I do back everything up, re-upload settings and the alarm is still there, where should I start looking to find the cause of the problem?
Obviously hoping it's not a main board that's bad and also trying to avoid a service call.
Thanks in advance for the help, I look forward to being a regular poster and not just another Troll!
Long time reader, first time poster. I'll save my introduction for another rainy day but glad to join the community.
Came in this morning to our 97' Haas VF-6 throwing alarm #213 Program RAM CRC Error. The book simply states "Electronics fault, call your dealer". I'm hoping we don't have a burnt out board in the back because that sounds expensive.
I deleted some of my recent programs from memory in case one of them was bad and to free up space. Alarm is still there.
Next step was going to be backing up all parameters, programs, offsets etc... I was going to remove everything and upload it all again and see if that helped. This machine was retrofitted from 3-1/2" Floppy to a USB input to make things easier a few years ago. Then it was hard wired in to our network so I have been transferring programs via ethernet cable using DNC server. Which has worked great, fast, convenient and simple to use. But now that I'm looking to back everything up from the machine I can't figure out how to send anything but a program via etherenet and DNC. All that I've read has pointed too backup via direct USB or 3-1/2" Floppy. IT has disabled all USB ports in the building so that's not an option as of now.
So to sum it all up I have 2 questions:
Am I going to have to beg IT to turn on my USB just to get everything backed up or is it possible via DNC?
If I do back everything up, re-upload settings and the alarm is still there, where should I start looking to find the cause of the problem?
Obviously hoping it's not a main board that's bad and also trying to avoid a service call.
Thanks in advance for the help, I look forward to being a regular poster and not just another Troll!