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GITRDUN and others:
If electronic components are purchased from reliable sources, meaning manufacturers that you have experience with that provide virtually zero defects, and temperature rise is kept small, then reliability should be extremely good.
It does appear that HAAS is having some problems with flakey operation of their electonics. I think it is higher than it should be. Is there adequate cooling in the processor area, are components too densely packed, are there marginal components, or are there outside factors, such as primary electrical disturbances, that are causing these problems?
If the fans that cool the processor area are not working properly this can increase problems.
In plastibob's case it seems to be file size related. Maybe this is a bad area in HAAS memory. An experiment that might indicate this is:
Start with a nearly empty program memory space. Load a 200 k file. Then load another identical 200 k file with a different O-number. If the first loads fine and the second crashes it may imply a memory problem.
I do not have any idea why the particular error message should have anything to with a memory problem. But it is possible that as HAAS loads program memory that they check whether data was successfully loaded and if not reflect this information back the program part doing the RS232 processing.
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