Need Help!- ez trak cmos failure

[krams]

Hello all,
new to the board.
I have an early 1990s ez trak Dx that had a cmos failure.

re soldered in a new battery, re installed the
boot disk and reconfigured the hard drive with the supplied parameters and the assistance of a electrical engineer I get a error message axis drives fault ,drives not on,failure to go home.
I have a red and green led on all three axis
drive boards and a red blinking led on the center board perpendicular to the drive board
any help would be greatly appreciated,
regards
krams

[machintek]

What version of software?
Was the mother board damaged by electrolyte leafing from the old CMOS battery.
Pull the green connector out from the AUXBOB and see if the red lights go off on the drive boards. Does the BMDC count down to Zero?

George

[krams]

Hello George,

Thanks for your assistance,

I found that the problem was a ribbon connector that was not pushed
down tight on the center board perpendicular to the mother board due to the fact it is in a difficult spot after the cmos battery repair.

It now homes.
However now the readouts lag when you move the x or y axis manually
or with jog.
Its as if the readouts have to "catch up" to the table movement.

Any advice would be appreciated,
My hope is that this will assist another member

Regards,

Krams

[machintek]

It may be the way the CMOS is set up. This controls a lot of what the mother board does.
Assuming the time, date, floppy, and hard drive parameters are correct, then there are the other pages of stuff including sometimes caches, type of memory etc. You may need to experiment a bit. I really do not have a machine to go to and look at. Maybe someone on this forum has the same vintage mother board and can write down their settings. If I was in front of the MB, I could figure it out pretty quick.

George

[krams]

Thanks again George,


I will give that a try,

Regards

Krams

[jj lockwood]

i have all correct cmos setting ..depending on the mother board u have
check that: base memory is 640k,,ext memory is 7168k
other memory 384k total memory is 8192k
drive a 1.44mb
drive b none
video: ega /vga
halt on: all errors
It would be a good to check bios settings
also; set primary slave drive and secondary drives D,E,F to none
i need to know what what motherboard dfi g586ipc rev c or d
or 486 ccv type or 486-r407 type

[machintek]

Cannot be set to halt on all errors. The Keyboard is half size so it is set to halt on all but keyboard. Older mother boards have a keyboard test that is set to off.

George

[krams]

Thanks to all for the reply!!!!!!!,

I will investigate more,

Currently the Machine performs all canned cycles,
However very slow on the up and down feed change and registering information after it is entered on the keyboard.
Seems slower on the program run.




jj lockwood

Can you please explain the last line of your post?

Regards

Krams

[krams]

Hello JJ lockwood

In regards to your last post,

Stupid question,

Where do I find the mother board I.D.?

Regards,

Krams