Program to Clear Faults and Restart a 90-30 PLC

- Insert floppy disk into drive A.

- Reboot the HMI from drive A by power cycling the machine.
- From following startup screen, move the cursor should be at COM1, if yes press Enter .
+StartS90

v0.5 - Press <Enter> for PLC--+

area 16550A
Serial Port (COM1 to COM2)
COM1

BIOS area 16550A

Data Rate (300 to 19,200)
19200
chip not found
Parity (None, Odd or Even)
Odd

chip not found

CPU ID (SNP, CCM or RTU)

Loopback (Test COM Port)

Failed
Auto Detect (Data Rate/Parity)

+Use <Up> or <Down> arrows for line-----+

COM1 3F8 in BIOS

COM2 2F8 add to
COM3 3E8 UART
COM4 2E8 UART

+-- Select COM port, Press <Enter> key to connect to PLC or

<Esc> to exit------+
StartS90 has been developed by GE Fanuc Tech Support to
restart Series 90

PLC's that have stopped with faults. The program shows COM
ports with I/O

address and UART chip at the upper right (or shows

defaults for Windows NT)
You can select any port by pressing the <Left> or <Right>
arrow keys on the
first line or by entering a highlighted digit (1 to 4)
shown at the right.

Press the <Enter> key to connect to a PLC using standard

SNP at 19,200/Odd.
You can also press the <Down> or <Up> arrows to select
lines below to change
Data Rate, Parity or to enter an SNP ID (up to 7
characters) for multidrop.
Press the <Tab>, <Left> or <Right> arrows on any line to
change any values.
Loop Back checks out port and cable while the AutoDetect
tries all speeds.

Note

Version 0.5 shows only PLC Status. Function keys and code
for Ref Tables,

Config, Genius config, TCP/IP CommReq and SeqEvtRec zoom

screens are gone.

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
- Once connected, the upper part of the Status screen looks like:
+-PLC Status Press <Esc> to return to COM Port
Mode (Monitor, On-Line, Program) On-Line

AQ64
State (Run/Enabl,Stop/Disabl,+2) Run w/I/O
I/O,Enable
Fault Table (<Enter> Clears Both) PLC Table
21:27
Time (<Enter> Set = to Computer) 13:53:47
PLC
CPU ID (SNP=7 char,<Enter> sets) ABC

FixedSweep (0=Normal,<Enter>sets) 0/Normal

to 50MS
Window (Prog/Comm,Limit or Comp) Comp/Lim.
6MS
+Use <Up> or <Down> arrows for Line-----------+

screen and exit program

CPU331 with R2048 AI128
15 MS Run with
0 faults(0 lost) 02/03
13:53:48

1999/02/28 In

L4 SNP ID=ABC
Program Window=Complete
Comm. Window=Limited to

- Select PLC Table and press Enter. You should see the number of faults going to 0.
- Select State and choose Run w/I/O and press the Enter. PLC should go to Run now.
- Remove floppy, and power cycle the Machine again