Well this is a problem that I’ve been having, for no apparent reason the RIOS application will lock up, and I have to end the task. This has made it impossible to do the initial robot servo configuration because that is a 15+ or so minute process. I am always able to get through about 2-3 servos and then it locks up, sometimes I try to skip a certain servo but that doesn’t work change anything.
I have a robot arm which is the B model, and I have a USB to Serial connector. There is never any problem connecting the robot to RIOS or to LynxTerm. I am on a Windows 7 64bit system.
I really need to get this fixed, this is for a school project :mrgreen:
I’m not sure what would cause that right off hand. Could we get more information on the USB-Serial cable you are using and perhaps a screenshot of the error message if there is one? A picture or two of your wiring would not be unwelcome either.
The error message is harder to give. there isn’t an error message exactly, its just that the program freezes, and goes unresponsive.
What wiring do you want to see? I can give you pictures from my webcam.
Also not sure if its important but after the RIOS freezes and I go to task manager to end process, if I try to restart it I always get a error code 5 (which I found means that the COM is busy). Also my firmware is different from what is shown in lynxmotion.com/images/data/rios106h.pdf, i think it’s 2. something
This is the first ever report of RIOS locking up as far as I can remember. So it’s not a trend or known issue. Have you done any testing on the PC itself as far as it’s health goes? Memory test, hard drive, etc. Have you made sure no TSR’s or other programs are loading before running the program? Perhaps re-seating the cards and memory modules would be in order. Random lockups tend to be hardware related. Software lockups tend to be more repeatable.
Well there’s the hardware issue… Look in the driver for a property called Latency or equivalent. If there is something like that lower it to minimum. If it does not help, then you must select a different cable. We recommend only the FTDI one, as it has proven time and time again to be the most reliable. With these cables you get what you pay for. RIOS uses a high bandwidth.
