Hello all,

sorry for reposting this but I think this is the right place for this thread

I have an old Cincinnati Vickers Acramatic 2100 CNC Machine,

first I got the Bridge Board failure so I toke the HD attached it to an XP machine(which killed the file system) made an image and started to fight to make it work again

I had to rebuild the OS and copy everything over so Back to the first error again

While loading the Vickers acramatic software it checks for all the attached hardware

It fails in the test "Bridge Board (WS)"

then of course fails in loading the programs to the RT in the step : NC Engine base

If you take the RT "Real Time" motherboard off the previous test is passed OK

I guess there was some settings on the bios of the RT motherboard to make it accessible from the bridge board

I already attached it (RT) to a power supply and a VGA card and changed the default settings to disable Floppy drive and disable halt on errors so now it boots fine (previously it wasn't booting and a red led on the bridge board was always on)

is there any other settings to be done on the bridge board

we have changed the bios batteries for both motherboards with new ones, the WS one was died and that was clear from the date reset and the machine was working for a while until that first error occurred

I even tried to revert to older version of the installed application but got the same errors

Any help or redirection is appreciated

Regards,
Akram

Blxxdy hell !

You are screwed.

The bios settings on the motherboard are read by the A2100 application software and if they are not spot on it will be just like the board not being there.

You cant just plug a monitor/psu/keyboard into that motherboard and change settings etc without it screwing things up. you need to download new settings directly into the bios, which is not something you and I can do.
Even a dead battery will screw up either one of your pc motherboards in your a2100 control.

the little 2 wire lead that goes from your motherboard thats on the far right hand side of the a2100 rack that plugs into the bridge board is very important, make sure its plugged in.

The bridge board is might expensive
your best option for spares might be Siemens in the USA as they took over vickers.

I don't know what your machine is like but an arrow 500 with A2100 to a UK based dealer is only worth £4,000.

You could easily spend that fixing yours.

Their was a guy on ebay sellying A2100 hard drives with pre-installed firmware on, until you have a working hard drive I wouldn't want to trust what the error messages say when the machine boots up.

If you want to break it up for spares let me know !