Re: VIA Epia Motherboard for CNC?

Thanks for the feedback, Dennis.
I have the room for a regular mobo.
Maybe I'll get an Asus or something from a
few months back. With CNC-Pro 32 Megs of RAM is
overkill. Have made turnings from both wood and metal.
Using Gecko G320's with servo's w/1000 line encoders.
Just got done running a batch of 10 spindles, out of cherry
only off about .003" over the whole batch, and this is wood!
The electrics are cobbled up in a "temporary" mode for now,
to prove them out. So far everthing works great. Now its
time to tidy things up with a new mobo ect.

-John



--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "Dennis Cranston"
<dlcranston@e...> wrote:

> I just finished a unit using that motherboard, only the 1 ghz

version. I

> added 256 meg memory and running Win XP Pro. I haven't tried CNC-

Pro, but

> MACH2 locks it up at initialization and requires a hard reset to

clear. I

> tried MACH1, but not happy with the results. It seems a little

erratic. The

> MACH1 would self estop in the middle of a run apparantely because

the

> software detected the hardware was off doing something other then

generate

> step pulses. I think the problem is that the board has so

many 'features'

> that it may be impossible to shut them all off. I have tried an

external

> video board and shutting off everything in the BIOS that I could

find, but

> still no success. (Many hours spent and I consider myself computer

hardware

> knowledgeable) I set the board aside in hopes that someone else

would try it

> and describe the solution.
> My personal opinion; that it may not be suitable for CNC

work. I hope

> someone will tell me I am wrong.
>
> Dennis Cranston
> Houston Texas
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Mesh [mailto:jmesh@h...]
> Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 1:53 AM
> To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] VIA Epia Motherboard for CNC?
>
>
> Has anyone used the VIA EPIA mini ITX Motherboard for CNC?
> It has integrated ethernet. VIA doesn't list DOS drivers so I
> E-mailed them but they never got back with me.
> I'm thinking of getting the 800 Mhz model to run CNC-Pro for 2 small
> lathes.
>
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