I just acquired this BP Torq cut 22 with a DX32 control. I purchased it in unknown condition and was told that the issue that took it out of service was air solenoid related. This seemed to be accurate as there was a broken tool fork, some new airlines plumed in around everything and some new solenoids just hanging off the machine. My intent for the machine was a complete retrofit to LinuxCNC if I could not get the DX32 up and running cheaply.
So I have been slowly getting the PC to turn on and boot to DOS. The first issue was reseatting all the cards on the motherboard as the monitor had no signal. Next I had a bad CMOS/BIOS battery. I got that fixed and can boot to DOS. The control attempts to do the "Machine Check"but I get a timeout. I tried the B3T test and got the results shown in the picture. It makes it past the analog test and then times out.
I have pulled and cleaned the BMDC contacts and switched ISA slots. The BMDC has 2 visible LED's. one is red which is on, the other is green which I have never seen come on. The machine does not have air to it but I assumed I could at least get the control to come on if it didn't.
As for the rest of the PC. It has an aftermarket motherboard, a Biostar 8433UUD running an AMD CPU and a Trident VGA video card. The HDD is 1 GB after market and makes a ton of noise (if it gets running most of these will be upgraded). It came with a ton of manuals, diagrams and 3.5" original floppies.
Since I had a dead Bios battery I am hoping I do not have the correct bios settings in. To get it to even boot to DOS I had to disable the external cache in the bios. Do any of the Bios settings have an effect on the BMDC timing out? So what should I try next? The cost of the BMDC repairs appears to be more than I paid for the machine and about 1/3 of the way to a new Linuxcnc system with new servos etc.