A little up front info this robot has been sitting for about 1 year with the power turned off so the first thing we did is replace all the battries in the top of the controller then we started to do a cold boot as the memory was wiped clean after the battries died. So as stated in title I can not get the controler to accept the key disk so i can not move forward with the instlation of any of the disks. I have disonected the battries and waited 5 min for the memory to drain then on restart the controller goes thru destroying the files and comes up to the install key disk screen and press any key. After inserting the key disk and pressing the enter key the light comes on, on the floppy drive and after about 30 seconds the screen on the teach pendant flashes and the insert key disk message comes back up. I have never had this problem in the past doing a cold boot. I have changed out the floppy drive and tried a different set of our back-up disks. Now I am stumped.
I can not start a cold boot in IRB1400 m98
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an82cj7 -
August 25, 2022 at 10:46 PM -
Thread is Unresolved
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First - reseat and verify all floppy connections.
Second - disconnect the Main CPU, Robot CPU & Ext Memory from the backplane for 15 minutes and then push them back in. Reseating the computer boards may help.
Third - any robot with a floppy drive that has not been used in a while should automatically get a cleaning disk run thru the drive before a floppy is used.
Because of their age and vulnerability, floppy drives and floppy disks have issues that are hard to diagnose if you can't independently verify them. Do you have another robot or old desktop you can you can verify with?
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I did install a new floppy drive just incase the old one died but no difference in startup. I will try removing all boards and reseating them next. This is our only robot so testing componets by swaping is not an option also this is the only floppy drive we have in the building. I did make copys of all the disks when we bought this robot and have kept the set the came with the robot locked in the safe. I am working with a set that was copied about 2 years ago and only used 1 time to do a cold boot and they worked then. Thanks for the help!! I will update this post with the good bad and ugly details as they happen.
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Well after removing the boards for 1 hour and reseating them I startrd to install the software again I found a bad disk and contacted ABB and got a set of files sent out. Some of the generic ABB files did not work so after a mix of old and new disks I was able to compleat the cold boot. I beleave the removal of the boards allowed them to loose all memory and stop locking up ther cold boot process. Thank you to Shooter for the info I would have never thought of reseating the boards.