Looking for help on initializing Shapeoko 3

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I have a Shapeoko 3 I haven’t used much over the past year and a half. I booted it up and saw that I needed to flash the hardware to use the new versions of carbide motion and carbide create.

So I did that. Now when I load up carbide motion, when I hit the “initialize” button the spindle will correctly home and zero on the X/Y axis. It then asks me to insert a tool to probe the Z axis. I insert a tool, click “OK” and the spindle dives into the cutting table, where it keeps trying to push down. I can hear a clicking from the motor slipping, and a few seconds later I get the error, “probing cycle failed”. What do I need to do?

This is all a little frustrating as before I had updated the old software worked perfectly…grumble gumble

EDIT: My board is a v2.4e. I don’t have any extras like a probing tool installed. Thanks

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Looks like you have the Bitsetter option; before “initialize” click on the Setting and check the Bitsetter option, if on turn it off.

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I had to initialize 3 times before it would recognize my XXL with the last update. But it finally did…

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Yup, that did it, thanks!

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