For the second day in a row, my (just) 2yr old Tormach controller has refused to boot.
Yesterday I opened it up, re-seated the card, re-seated the ram, put a new battery in, and then it booted up.
Left it switched on for several hours, but with no actual run-time, then shutdown as normal.
Now again this morning it won't boot up. Not even any beeps this time, just a message on the screen that says "attention, no signal".
Reading through the interweb it seems that this a common issue, and often points to a dead controller, though with no specific mentions of which part of it has gone wrong.
So I'm looking at getting another PC to run Pathpilot on, but the question is what will I need, in terms of specification and configuration to run this?
I've never set up a PC with linux before, or had to install Pathpilot from scratch on a new system.
I'd be very grateful for all the advice you can give me. Thank you
Alternatively if you know a simple fix for this, please let me know.