This Roland CNC is an older model MDX-40 running the firmware and drivers for the newer MDX-40A MDX-40A manual - It is set up with a windows machine that runs it. Files can be loaded via usb or through the (server).
Hello. Our golsdsmiths studio has a problem with a Roland MDX-40 firmware update. We are running it on a machine with Windows 10 with Windows 8 drivers. A recent Windows update caused VPanel to vanish and I can't reinstall it. The driver properties Window freezes the system. The time to update the firmware to MDX-40A has come. We got an old Windows XP laptop for the firmware update. Everything went smoothly all the way to phase 3/13. I was prompted to verify the version and I started the mill to update mode. Scanning blinking and I click OK. The updater gives the error 'No signal. Cannot find active printer driver.' No firmware update is sent. I try again and when I turn the machine power on in the update mode, Windows XP tells me it has found MDX-40A and would like to install drivers for it. But yet again, the updater gives me the same error. First I thought that I'd need to update the MDX-40 firmware to the newest version to update it to MDX-40A and I tried to run the 1.90 firmware update with DropOut. All I got was a printing error while sending the MDX-40 1.90 firmware update.
I surmise some data was sent before the error, so the XP recognizes it as MDX-40A even if it doesn't have the firmware and that's why the 1.90 firmware update failed.
I can still run the mill as MDX-40 with the loaned Windows XP laptop, but that won't solve my problem. Is there a way to check which firmware the mill has? What do I need to do to get the MDX-40A upgrade sent to the machine? Is there a way reset the situation?