Good times, bad times....

[DavidF]

Ugg! what a day. Im changing too many things at once. Decided to do some upgrading of my rostock V1, installing tricklaser arms and dropping the e3dv6 below the effector, added effector mounted twin 50's (yea baby) cooling fans, but at the same time I upgraded to a new coumputer (windows 8) which is becoming my nemessis... The rostock up grades went great an I am seeing a noticeable improvment over my V1 arms that to my surprise had a couple of u joints seized to the shaft. Honestly never really detected the problem as the shaft they were mounted on just decided to piviot in the 2 piece effector plate. Honestly when it comes to mechanical stuff i thought I was better than that (not noticing the seized joints)
well im running the first print since the upgrade and all I can say is WOW!!! much better!! but then comes the dark side...Windows 8 wtf?? this is totally different! I got repetier downloaded but havent figured out how to get it to connect to the printer. I downloaded the driver (I think) and arduino firmware but its just not coming together like it should and I have been unable to connect to the printer thru the computer. If it wasnt for being able to reset my z height thru the lcd I would be screwed right now! Tomorrows upgrade is installing the astrosynce dampners and I would like to be able to recalibrate the printer after doing so. But this windows 8 thing is going to plague me big time. Im sure its just a learning curve, but if you have any advic to offer im open to suggestions....

[BenTheRighteous]

I suggest upgrading to a Linux operating system!

[DavidF]

I suggest upgrading to a Linux operating system!

Yea umm not an option....

[precisionpete]

Usually when your having that much trouble getting the computer to see the printer ditch windows 8 and upgrade it to windows 7.

7 works.
8 you could get it functioning eventually but why give yourself more work over a bloody transistor box?

[jdurand]

Since Microsoft dropped support for 7, you know it works.

I wonder if old copies of 7 will be able to be re-installed in the future like XP?

[Mac The Knife]

I suggest upgrading to a Linux operating system!

And some would consider that a downgrade

[BenTheRighteous]

Those people would be wrong.

[DavidF]

I got it!! Took a fresh start and a bit of poking around, but I got it...