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Hello Marc
Thank you for your reply. I did as you suggested with no change. So I pressed around on the multi pin connector on the other end with a pencil and got it to work. It felt fully seated but it must of needed some coaxing.
Thank you once again for taking the time to help.
Dave

I finally got around to changing the motherboard battery but now I have a black screen.The mill goes through normal start up and I am able to home and jog but the screen is black. I remember reading about this issue but cant find it again.
Thank you for any help.
Dave

Thank you Marc
Your help is always appreciated.

Hello
I am getting a CMOS checksum error on start up . See attached screen pic. I just keep hitting F1 to continue.
My questions are: Can I just keep hitting F1 with out replacing motherboard battery.
Does the PCM-6890 B motherboard have a replaceable battery and if so will just replacing the ...

I found my problem. I never pulled the front panel off the controller when checking connections just the back cover.I reached in from behind and thought the 40 pin IDE connection to the motherboard felt sound. It wasn't.It was slightly lifted up on one end. Been kicking myself for my lack of ...

Thank you for your clear explanation. I would like you to make me the compact flash card,seems like the smart move. What about all of my machine parameters can that get copied from what info you have from previous times sending control in for repair? How do we go about making this happen.
Thank you ...

Yes,the control has been upgraded to CNC 10 v 2.36.
As suggested I backed up my cnc/icn program files and report files. The report files has a few folders. one named INSTALL ms-dos batch file and
another called INSTALL.SH sh file. If the control errors again and I get the VERIFYING DMI POOL DATA ...

Thank you for your reply BodeRacing.
Of all your suggestions I tried the one that was the easiest for me. I opened the back of controller and wiggled wires focusing on hard drive. Fired up with no problems! I didn't have the forethought to try powering it up before trying to re seat wires to confirm ...

Hello
I have a vertical mill with a M400 control ( #6119). I was establishing X and Y zero points on a new program. Screen said Y zero accepted but the display did not zero out. None of the functions on screen were working so I had to power down manually. When powering back up I get system ...

I sent you a private message earlier today about you possibly having a part I need for my M-300. I was going to ask how the build was going but I did not want to put you on the spot in case " life getting in the way of fun"syndrome was in effect.
I now see you've been kicking -ss Great progress ...