On 11/22/2014 01:52 AM, Gregg Eshelman wrote: > I got it cheap, real cheap. Has 4 gig of PC5300 DDR2 and a Core 2 > Pentium 4. Also has a low profile PCIe x16 video card. It's small enough > to be mounted inside the cavernous 1990 vintage control cabinet I > stripped all the original electronics out of. > > Most importantly it has a parallel port to which I can connect a Pico > universal stepper controller. > > Some of the last Optiplex machines had too much BIOS stuff in them, and that interfered with the RT performance. You may have to tweak some of the BIOS settings and mess with LAPIC and other oddities. But, try it with the live disk and do the latency test. if that works well, then you are golden. if not, some investigating online may turn up the setting to get good RT latency.
I have a 650 here that gets the real time delay message every now and again. I use it for testing boards, not running a machine, so I don't worry about it. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
