Originally Posted by
GLCarlson
When I started having M3 issues (spindle, not atc) I did multiple reinstallations. No help. Something -clearly in software- was not cleared by a reinstall of M3. It was erratic, but got progressively worse (more frequent-once it happened, I had to cold boot both controller and machine, which sometimes cleared the error for that session). I was about to do a total hard drive reformat, but went to PP instead (controller was old, it was time to move to M4, etc). Not a squeek in the year plus since then. Problem was clearly software or the control computer itself, since nothing else has changed.
Until you do a complete, low level reformat of your OS and reinstall M3, I don't think you have eliminated a software cause.
Since you've got PP coming, you're at most a few days out. I'd wait for PP.