We are attempting to restart a machine that has not been used for half a decade. Initially the machine restarted successfully, but we had problems with homing of a couple of linear axis. I tried using the installed PEWin32 (v 1.9xx - very old) but had problems with it not being ale to restore PLCs and Programs from a backup .cfg file. So I installed the latest Pro2 suite and was able to get past my restore problem, however since then the control application is not ale to communicate with the Turbo PMAC anymore (TCP/IP communication returns error 10001 which is documented in their manuals as communication failure).
The control application is from a machine vendor that is o longer in business ad we do not have source code so we cannot debug easily.
So here are my questions, hope someone can help me:
1. Is it possible that installing and/or using the Pro2 suite has reset my PMAC IP address (it is ow 100.100.100.51), I could have sworn that before I installed the Pro2 suite I could not ping that address, nnow I can and that is now definitely the address of my PMAC.
2. Is there a logging version of PEWin32 available that will log all client calls, so that I can see what the application is trying to do and what fails.
If not than I will have to write my own DLL that will intercept all calls and returns - not fun.
3. If it is not an IP address issue, but a DLL compatibility issue then is there a way to restore the state of the DLLs to the level prior to Pro2 suite installation, Un-installing the Pro2 suite did not fix the problems and I see that many DLLs in the System 32 directory have been left updated.
Again any help and advice would be greatly appreciated.