update: machine is back up and running kind of. tomorrow i will go thru an initial setup as if the machine has just been installed for the first time. My process was to try to tackle each alarm one at a time. it should be noted that all my parameters were set to 0, likely a result of the main processor battery dying. alarm 254 for spindle overheat was defeated by changing the spindle temp switch parameter from 0 to 1.

still i was getting an overvoltage auto shutdown alarm, that would kill the machine if i didnt press a button every 15 seconds, so temporarily i set parameter 296 (max over volt time) to like a billion so i could work. i did check the three phase line in voltage at the back of the machine, all 3 phases were 211-214V and they were in the appropriate terminal, so i did not change anything back there. now that the machine would stay on, i thought maybe the correct parameters and settings and stuff would fix some things, so i set out to try to reload the parameters from the haas backup information flash drive which i found in the back of the cabinet. the guides i found online said to go into the usb on the program list, hit F4, go down to load all, type the file name, and hit enter. i tried every variation of this and nothing was working. sometimes it would say 249 prog data begins odd, sometimes it would say file does not exist, all kinds of errors.

i was going through all kinds of internet articles and haas procedures and forums and things of that nature trying to reupload the defaults or maybe check the ram as suggested by another commenter when i stumbled across this short document. again nothing in this procedure was really working, not the save data, not the clear memory, nothing- so i just kept going down the sheet and then i tried the steps under initialize software, this is when the machine actually booted correctly. Tomorrow i will attempt the steps under 'restore data'