A customer of mine wiped their boot memory. All we get is the indication of a boot and warm start then the floppy drive shuts down and we get the blinking cursor in the top right corner. All serial numbers have been worn off the controller cabinet and the robot. They bought this used without the diskettes. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
Needed 1995 irb1400 m94a arcweld sys diskette set copy
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RobotRon -
May 19, 2016 at 2:55 PM -
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It is strange that you only have a flashing cursor in one corner - maybe you have another issue with the controller at the moment that is hanging the controller rather than a wiped boot memory.
If you had later 2.1 software you might of been able to make a backup through service/file/ that contained the serial number.
Earlier versions of 2.0 and 2.1 had no backup facility so you had to save parameters in a SYSPAR directory and all modules separately in other directory.Normally on an M94 after a pulled Main/Axis/ Memory board, a forced c-start or a dead back plane battery you will see a lot of memory erasing steps after power on (T-xxxx several stages), then you will arrive at a prompt saying 'insert disk 1 (of 3) then press OK'
The problem with M94a systems you will need at least one original boot diskette (RW2.0 or 2.1) to transfer the serial number (using the dos serial number transfer program 2300-2 update.exe) to a new complete set of boot disks unless you can get a generic boot disc set (no serial number) from ABB. We had to do this in the good old days when updating robotware and leaving a customer with new discs with correct serial number.
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It is strange that you only have a flashing cursor in one corner - maybe you have another issue with the controller at the moment that is hanging the controller rather than a wiped boot memory.If you had later 2.1 software you might of been able to make a backup through service/file/ that contained the serial number.
Earlier versions of 2.0 and 2.1 had no backup facility so you had to save parameters in a SYSPAR directory and all modules separately in other directory.Normally on an M94 after a pulled Main/Axis/ Memory board, a forced c-start or a dead back plane battery you will see a lot of memory erasing steps after power on (T-xxxx several stages), then you will arrive at a prompt saying 'insert disk 1 (of 3) then press OK'
The problem with M94a systems you will need at least one original boot diskette (RW2.0 or 2.1) to transfer the serial number (using the dos serial number transfer program 2300-2 update.exe) to a new complete set of boot disks unless you can get a generic boot disc set (no serial number) from ABB. We had to do this in the good old days when updating robotware and leaving a customer with new discs with correct serial number.
Thank you.
I had to leave the project for another and return. I was able to get the digital version downloaded onto diskettes using an old xp os. Got the weld cell welding and the brake started dragging for the 315c positioner. The customer shorted the resolver during a troubleshooting exercise. I tried to boot without the 315c info modifying the eio and moc to exclude positioner references. I got a fatal sys error. We are trying to get another servo. Meanwhile, I am still trying to develop a program that will allow them to position manually in the absence of the servo. Any ideas?