Looking for Zcorp 3D printer users, new owner here... looking for help.

[Cismontguy]

Hello Moadella,I am sorry I do not understand your question. I am not real knowledgeable regarding these printers. I have just been working my way through the issues I faced. I have since closed the books on that printer. No longer working on it. There is some kind of serious issue with the CPU board on a lot of these ZCorp printers I have found after talking to like 5-6 owners. Zcorp seemed to have known about this before... but did nothing to correct it. My CPU board cooked itself when the $7.00 cheap POS cooling fan failed on the chip set! I bought another mother board on line and got it to boot up but now there is some kind of timing error between the CPU board I bought and the rest of the printer. That is why it some times goes through some of the pre diagnostic tests and some times does. not.Do you have your printer hooked up to a monitor and keyboard so you can see who far the boot up gets before it failed? I use to video tape it with my phone.Cismontguy

[MoAbdalla]

Hi thank you for your reply.. I meant I had the same original error of “Warning Kernel.346541: eth-Rtl: Initialization failed network failure, ask for help via LCD”.
I had mine connected to a screen and keyboard too and it stops at this error and doesn't boot up.

When I first had it like a year ago it just had some printhead errors and which I solved by replacing the Hp11 printhead and skipped the alignment check by printing in monochrome. it worked fine for a while and we left it on as recommended but for long time, about 6 months without use. Now when I tried to reconnect it to the computer through a hub it give me the above kernel error while booting up. and on the LCD screen it says network initialization error. I also started hearing humming noise from the CPU.

So that's where I'm stuck right now. I hope it's not a complete motherboard change like you said.

Thanks
Mo Abdalla

[Cismontguy]

Mo Abdalla,I am not sure I know what to suggest? I solved my communications issues by getting to the set up and changing the network connection option in the set up using the keyboard and monitor. If you take the CPU box out, you should be able to tell whether the CPU chip set fan is running or not? If you can put your hand on the CPU board you can tell that it is getting hot! I used an IR touchless thermometer.Cismontguy

[MoAbdalla]

Gotcha, Thank you I will try that!.Mo Abdalla