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Topic: Advice,criticism welcome....is it me or the software?

I run Win8 and the original bundled software(.85b).I had it finely tuned and was making great prints.

On Wed I got hit with a power surge while a print was in progress.My UPS prevented any damage to the printer/pc,as far as I determined the only casualty was RH which was rendered "fubar".

I figured I'd start clean and deleted RH and it's driver and rebooted.I installed a fresh copy of the driver from SD's site.In my infinite wisdom I figured this was a perfect time to try out the latest version of RH(.90c) so I went to their site and installed it.That's when the trouble started.

I spent the better part of Thurs unplugging,rebooting,troubleshooting and could not get it to play nice.At first I got the famous "com3 does not exist" yet the printer was visible on "com3" when I checked in "computer".I unplugged and rebooted and this time it connected but the motors,heaters were all inop.

After countless reboots I deleted everything yet again and installed the original bundled software(.85b).This time it connected perfectly the first time and is now back to normal.

Can anyone think of why the SD driver would not work with the RH version of .90c yet work with the SD version (.85b)? It appears to have been some kind of conflict between them.

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Re: Advice,criticism welcome....is it me or the software?

maybe the RH software defaults to the wrong baud rate?

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Re: Advice,criticism welcome....is it me or the software?

Thanks for the input but I'm sure that wasn't it.

The first thing I did was check config/connection and make sure it said com3 and 250000.

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Re: Advice,criticism welcome....is it me or the software?

I'm having this problem too

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Re: Advice,criticism welcome....is it me or the software?

If you also run Win8 64bit,welcome to the club big_smile

Right now I'm not sure if it's a conflict between RH .90c  and the driver or a bug with RH .90c and win8 64bit.

FWIW,this is a shot of my connection tab in the SD bundled version.Your tab must look like this for it to connect.

Keep in mind all the defaults in the RH version of .90c are totally different from those in the SD bundled version of .85b.Once you do get it to connect,you have to manually set every one for feed rate,etc.

This is where smart phones come in handy to catalog all your settings.

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Re: Advice,criticism welcome....is it me or the software?

Tony Holmes wrote:

Thanks for the input but I'm sure that wasn't it.

The first thing I did was check config/connection and make sure it said com3 and 250000.

The new, printer-board based motherboard does not require a special baud rate.

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