DX32 Wont bring up operations screen

[laserh20]

In my last post, I made the mistake of saying my bpt dx32 was up and running. Apparently it heard me and decided to show me my folly. The hard drive that I put in failed and I am back to square one. I put another hard drive in the system. fdisked, formatted, loaded dos 6.2, loaded the machine files. Everything was going pretty smoothely. However, when the system boots up it runs through the executive load then gives me a C prompt rather than going to the operations screen. I tried to run this off of the floppy and it does the same thing (it goes to an A prompt when I run it from the floppy) The only thing that looks a little of is when it does the machine check, it has a line that reads [1;16HNOT RUNNING. I am completely stumped. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

P.S. I think that when I die, I want them to burn a cnc machine in front of my grave before the toss me in.

[machintek]

Sorry, the burning of CNC at funerals is reserved for high priests of Service.
Kidding!
You do not mention the machine type, nor the version of software you are loading.
Are you using install.bat?
Can you find from the C prompt B3T.exe? This would test the BMDC if your machine is equipped with one.

George

[laserh20]

George,

The machine is a 760-22. I believe the software is version 4.06. I will double check when I get in this morning.

Thanks

Tim

[laserh20]

George,

There is no b3t.exe on the c drive. The software is version 4.30/6.81.

Your right about the burning of CNC'S.

However, if I win the lottery, I am going to buy a bunch of cnc's, a couple of cases of beer, and some dynamite. I will then invite everyone from this forum to come enjoy the carnage!!

[machintek]

OK. Version 4.30 was the first stable/acceptable version of software but do not try cutting 3D with it. There are a lot more revisions of the software past 4.30 but these require retuning of the Siemens drives, but will allow 3D to be cut a lot better.
For a correct install, the install.bat file is used. Did you use that?
If the executive is not loading, it may be wrong hard drive parameters in CMOS (1024, 16, 63), a corrupted file, of bad communications to the BMDC. Try cleaning the edge connector with a soft eraser, or if possible a different ISA slot.

George

[laserh20]

George,

I pulled out the board, cleaned the edge, and put it in a different slot. Same results. It appears that the executive is loading. The problem is that when the executive is done loading the system goes directly to a C:\ prompt rather than goint to the boss screen. I don't thinik it is the hard drive as I have tried to run this from the floppy drive and the hard drive and neither one will work. I am going to go through the entire installation procedure again just to make sure I didn't do something wrong.

I am missing the ansi.sys file. I deleted the line devicehigh=ansi.sys. I didn't have it the last time I had the machine running. Could this be causing a problem?

Tim

[laserh20]

ok, i fdisked the hard drive. reformatted the hard drive. installed dos 6.2. i put the dx 32 disk in and ran install. during the install, I got the following:

a:\ren c:\0.bat c:\autoexec.bat
Invalid parameter

a:\copy a:\dos*.* c:\dos*.*
a:\dos\bxt.fnt
a:\dos\fontload.exe
a:\dos\helvb.fon
a:\dos\bdx.exe

a:\>del c:\install.bat
file not found


After this, none of the files were copied to the c drive.

I then used copy a:\*.* c:\*.*

Then I used mkdir c:\dos

Then I used copy a:\dos\*.* c:\dos *.*

I changed the cmos to boot from the c drive.

Same result as before. The executive loads, but the user interface does not come up. It goes directly to a c prompt.

Note, if I run this from the a drive off of the floppy, the same thing happens. It loads the executive, but it does not open the user interface it goes directly to an a prompt.

I can't figure this out, what am I doing wrong?

I really need to get this thing running.

Tim

[KTD1]

Tim,

I have a 760/22 down right now as well so I'm sharing your frustration.
Just before I lost video and keyboard I had did a copy of my C:

If there is a file in my hard drive copy that might help you, let me know and I'll email you the files.

Max

[laserh20]

ktdi

Right now I am completely lost. If your machine was running prior to the keyboard and video crapping out on you, you could zip and send me the contents of your c drive less any .txt files (program files). I would take a shot at transferring the entire thing onto my c drive to see if it will run. My email is tlawson@advancedcuttingsystems.com.

Thanks for the reply,

Tim

[KTD1]

I sent an email yesterday.
Did you get it?

[laserh20]

KTD1,

I did not get the email. Please try to send again. tlawson@advancedcuttingsystems.com

Thanks in advance,

Tim

[machintek]

Lets try a long shot. The PC side is working - sort of. The PC boots, tries to load and displays video. That is a great start. What is lit inside the electrical cabinet. Are any LED lit on the AUF? On the TLAUF or LCTLAUF (do not know which one you have)? This would indicate a lack of 24VDC.
Anything lit on the Siemens?
Have you checked all the fuses on the bottom of the electrical cabinet?
Otherwise I will go back to thinking it is still software related.
BTW, I saw a real antique today. A V2XT with a 386DX mother board, 40 MB hard drive and DOS 5! Yes it was running. They bought it for 500 dollars and placed it in a fabrication shop. Alongside of it were some parts greater than 8 feet in diameter with burners around the circumference in preparation for welding. HOT!

George

George