small shale
Starting the first print, and first, instead of starting off by making a square, it starts printing more of a triangle, and then starts actually making the shape, but doing squiggles on it, and then it just starts dragging the print along with it. Any settings I need to change?
dire birch
nozzle is too far from the bed
nimble current
This is poor bed adhesion
dire birch
do you have an auto-bed-leveling probe of some sort or all manual?
nimble current
But yeah probably nozzle height
small shale
i bought a bl touch
didnt use it yet
should i install that right now before I try again?
wanted to just try a first print to see how badly it would screw up
dire birch
up to you. if you ultimately plan on using the bltouch I guess you might as well put it on there now so you don't have to re-calibrate everything again
small shale
alright, ill do that then, probably will make life easier too
thanks, will reply if something goes wrong again lol
when*
small shale
up to you. if you ultimately plan on using the bltouch I guess you might as well...
also, would you by chance know whether or not i'd have to install firmware before installing the bl touch? watching a video saying I should but others aren't really saying anything
dire birch
yes. you'll probably need to flash firmware that's configured to use the bltouch
small shale
yes. you'll probably need to flash firmware that's configured to use the bltouch
would it be this?
my printers version is 1.0.2, so not sure whether I can use these or not
dire birch
the board number (e.g. 4.2.7) should be printed on the board. match that number up
small shale
the board number (e.g. 4.2.7) should be printed on the board. match that number ...
ah, okay. how would i know if it properly installed or not?
dire birch
the firmware? it should show the version number somewhere in the menu or something?
small shale
not sure, still shows 1.0.4
i extracted the firmware and put it in the sd and then put it in the printer and turned it on, but on the printer versions still the same as before
dire birch
show the contents of the sd card
small shale
dont think i can right now, i had to delete the bin file and repaste it into the drive, and now its in the printer but its been stuck on the starting screen i assume updating for the past 3 minutes
not sure if it should take more than 30 seconds
small shale
show the contents of the sd card
do you know whether its safe or not to turn it off?
saw someone said it'll get turned into a brick or like get messed up if I do
dire birch
I mean, if it's been over 5 minutes there really isn't another option other than rebooting it
small shale
I mean, if it's been over 5 minutes there really isn't another option other than...
yeah i did it. heres the drive again
small shale
printer, the one on the outside
dire birch
reformat the sdcard as fat32. copy the firmware file again and give it a simple new unique name like fwupdate112.bin. and try again
DO safely remove the sd card
small shale
alright, also what will that do?
dire birch
just covering a bunch of bases here. maybe the filesystem is partially corrupt? reformat. maybe it already tried to flash this filename and failed? give it a unique name because creality boards require a new name for the next flash
maybe you are unsafely removing the sdcard and corrupting the filesystem? don't do that
small shale
its already a fat32
dire birch
reformat it anyways
small shale
alright
small shale
reformat it anyways
should i redownload the files, or just copy and paste them once formatted?
just in case the files are like corrupted
dire birch
don't copy it from the sd card.
small shale
gotcha
small shale
don't copy it from the sd card.
yeah same thing as before, still stuck on that screen for some reason
very weird
dire birch
could try a different sd card
small shale
could try a different sd card
unfortunately dont have anymore; is this due to the sd card?
dire birch
possibly. boards not liking particular sdcards for firmware updates is a thing
small shale
think it did something to the printer; tried turning it on without the sd card and now its stuck
wtf
small shale
possibly. boards not liking particular sdcards for firmware updates is a thing
sorry for a lot of questions btw, very confusing to me; for the bl touch firmware, do i only need the bin file and update the machine only?
dire birch
there's probably firmware for the display as well
small shale
this is what it comes with
in the notes, it says to do both
so i guess i'll have to do the screen one too.
small shale
there's probably firmware for the display as well
so I updated both firmwares, but im not seeing anything new on the screen like i should for the bl touch version, which is like auto leveling and everything
i mean version is different but everything else is the same
screen updated but machine didn't, still not sure why. machine updates with every other firmware, but not with the bl touch version
wonder if i need to actually plug it in and get it working first
dire birch
not sure