Denford Software & Machines

Hi there,

Having recently attended training on the Microrouter Compact at Brighouse I tried to connect the machine (Microrouter Compact) at my school to machine a test piece. However, when I 'connect to the real machine' I get a piece of text in green stating 'initialising' followed by some sort of error message saying that a certain address cannot be read. The text stating 'initialising' then freezes as does the VR milling (ver: 5.12.0.304) software.

The same problem occurs with a stand alone laptop I have set in administrator mode. I am using the USB connection.

During a brief visit to the department a few months ago a Denford employee did successfully use the machine to make a component.

Can you help?

Regards,

Robert Harrison.

The access violation you are seeing is occuring because the machine is not connected / could not be found via USB or RS232.

It normally indicates that :
You are trying to run it on windows 98/95 - the USB interface is NOT supported by these operating systems (use RS232 in this case)

The Baldor USB driver has not been loaded correctly - check in windows Device Manager under USB devices (see atached picture) - if there is a problem, the USB drivers can be found on the original VR Milling CD under the \USB folder

The control is not turned on or has no power due to a blown fuse - check inside the cabinet that the Green seven segment display is lit up.

There is a USB cable problem - check all cables from the PC, through the machine connecter, to the Baldor board are OK and haven't fallen off or been damaged.

Hope this sorts the problem