This message was posted by Caren Maffucci on AmayaUsers.com. PLEASE DO NOT REPLY VIA EMAIL. Instead, respond to the thread on the WEBSITE by clicking here: http://www.amayausers.com/boards/ultimatebb.php?/topic/3/199.html I had a problem earlier today, which I was able to solve by re-installing software (I had recently upgraded to Corel Draw X4) so now that "challenge" has been met but replaced itself with another. I was asked to do the 20,000,000 maintenance and did everything up to removing the black cover, greasing the presser cam follow and replacing the black cover. However I'm thinking that I didn't make sure that the presser foot was released before pressing "ok" for the machine to move to the next maintenance step. When I moved to the next step, it said that something blocked movement and maintenance would be cancelled. Needle 1 is down (I have removed the actual needle, but the arm is down) and if I try to hit "Head Up" under maintenance the error reads "Color change stepper index error - off index while sewing." I looked up that error string in the archives and have already blown the heck out of everything behind the needle case. In Maintenance/Sensors the following show to be "Blocked": Y Axis Home Z Axis Index & Safe Color Change Index Everything else on that screen shows to be Open. I really don't feel that I have a bad sensor, but think that the machine registered a block when the presser foot wasn't released after replacing the black cover and I don't know how to bring it out of it's misery. Anyone - Buhler - Anyone... I am dead in the proverbial water. Caren- =========================================================== The AmayaUsers Mailing List Website: http://www.amayausers.com Discussion Board: http://www.amayausers.com/boards Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://www.amayausers.com/list ===========================================================