Accumove Won’t connect to VMD

[fish76]

Does anybody hav any tips or tricks to connect from accumove to the VMD? This has been working all last week and now this morning it won’t connect to VMB. In the netwok, it says cable not plugged in. I’ve tried a different cable still nothing. Closed program multiple times. Shut off VMD multiple times. Any ideas?

[weldguy]

Have you seen this document about setting up the connection

https://torchmate.com/uploads/images/PD ... cumove.pdf

Maybe your network connection settings changed somehow.

[fish76]

Thanks! I hadn’t seen this before. But, it didn’t fix it.

[weldguy]

Have you gone to Windows Device manager to be sure your PC is still seeing the network card and showing no errors? Should be a magnifying glass down near the Windows icon to serach with, just type Device Manager into that and it should get you there and you can look at Network Adapters

[tcaudle]

Unless Device Manager has changed in WIN10/11 it simply shows if the card is there and has a Windows driver loaded, it won't show if anything is connected to it or if its its sending data.

There are some test level things you can do. Using "ping" if you know the network IP address of the card and of the remote device lets you do a "response" test ping does not work if you don't know the IP address of the devices .

Most Ethernet jacks have two LED's. One is to show physical connection. Light comes on if it sense another port physically connected . If that is not on then either the cable is bad , or one port or the other is dead. Physical connection is not the same as data moving (flashing LED) You can't get data with no physical connection .

If you have a hub or another PC with Ethernet, plugging into hat will let you know which end of the connection is bad. If the PC end t lights when you connect the hub or another PC then its good. If not its a bad port on that PC. If it does light then most likely the port on the controller is bad.

[weldguy]

Great tips Tom, always learning things here! Hopefully the OP will post back with what he has found.