Need some help with Lenovo laptop.

[kclanton]

I have a hand me down lenovo laptop that I would like to use as a backup. Its running windows 10. It will not connect to the controller. Anyone know why?

[erik_f]

have you loaded drivers? Also I have a Win10 machine that I have to plug in to the bot and restart every time to get it to talk to the controller.

[curtiss]

This link might be handy... covers a lot of areas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPWe-PFofkA

[Marc F. Lupien]

I have a lenovo laptop that I used to use to control the shopbot without any kind of problem. Right now, I have a lenovo desktop hooked up to the shopbot and it's working perfectly.

If I understand correctly, your computer is second hand... When you got it, was there a bunch of applications installed on it or was it clean (fresh windows install) ??

Of course a clean install would give you less chances of problems.

I understand that Windows 10 has a procedure that you can use to perform a clean re-install of the itself. It does remove all user files and all applications that doesn't come with Windows... I would suggest doing this procedure and restart fresh. Note that I did not run this procedure myself.

[jerry_stanek]

On my one laptop I just had to reload the firmware for the shopbot to see the drivers.

[Sameer Patel]

You need to install the drivers you received with the controller or take it to the service center they will fix it for you