zxy axes not working gecko G540

[millsy]

hi all,
I`ve just got back to tinkering with my mill after a long recovery from my illness february 2016 before I got sick all the axes on my mill worked when I press ref all they went to their home switches then backed off as per normal I have just got the all clear from the Doctors that I can now operate machinery I`ve just tried to set up my digital probe to find the center of a pocket ever since I`ve tried to do this first my x axes stopped working and when I press ref all none of the axes work but the dro numbers work on the x axes I`m using mach 3 version R3.043.066 when mach 3 is running z and y axes motors get warm as normal but x axes motor is stone cold I went into hardware test and none of my home switches are working for some reason !!!Q ahould I download Mach 3 again and rest all the settings etc I think I`ve might of inadvertently -:(changed some settings many thanks in ad advance for any help

[DaveCVI]

Hi,
Motors not moving could either be a basic mach configuration issue, or some hardware that died.

For configuration stuff, look in C:\Mach3\xmlbackups - that is where mach stores backup copies of the mach config xml file. You can copy one of the older config files to a new name in the mach dir and start mach using that profile. If things come back to life you will know it was a clobbered config.

You can reinstall mach if you want - but it's unlikely that will make a difference (mach installations don't usually get corrupted, the config files do).

Otherwise you will have to go trouble shooting the electronics to see what is working and what is not.
Dave