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Revision 1 (Amber Herold, 04/23/2010 09:09 AM) → Revision 2/3 (Amber Herold, 04/27/2010 02:14 PM)

h1. Hardware Troubles 




 * <link linkend="PresetSendError">Microscope temporarily loses communication during 
 preset change</link> 


 * <link linkend="GIFoff">Leginon complains that it can not activate GIF 
 slit</link> 


 * <link linkend="stagebad">Compustage pole touch error causes the image acquired at 
 the wrong place</link> 







 h2. Preset manager fails to send a preset to the 
 microscope 



 Why: If Tecnai microscope is busy for reasons such as correcting a pole touch error, 
 Leginon can not comunicate with the scope until the latter is free. 


 Solution: Make sure the scope is not busy any more and send the preset to scope manually 
 to resume data collection. 


 Note: The immediate imaing condition may be wrong since manual preset sending does not 
 include extra image shift from the target, but it should recover in later process. 





 h2. Leginon can not activate GIF slit 



 Why: Unknown 


 Try these: 


 * Toggle the filtered button in the EFTEM menu a few times. 


 * Send tomography preset and then the square preset to scope. 


 * Make sure Gatan's GIF tracking program is off. 




 There is no fix for this bug. 







 h2. Image acquired at the wrong stage position 



 Commonly why: dirty or worn compustage parts 


 Solution: Call for scope service 


 * If this happens during grid atlas data collection, it has no impact on targets 
 selected on it. However, there is no way to patch to the intended location 
 easily. 


 * If this happens while a target is reacquired for drift correction, the drift 
 correction will be wrong. There is no fix except to "declare drift" in Drift Manager to 
 force another drift corection as soon as possible. 




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