Hello, Athena Embroidery Accents has just posted in the Machines & Hardware forum of AmayaUsers Discussion Boards under the title of Color Change Stepper Index Error. This thread is located at http://www.amayausers.com/discussion/showthread.php?1078-Color-Change-Stepper-Index-Error Here is the message that has just been posted: *************** Hi Steve, I'm in Philly and having the exact same issue and just here searching the boards before I cry and try to find a tech. This happened late Saturday, the last day before our vacation, so guess where I am on the first day of vacation??? Problem started because I slid the hoop out to remove a pin before starting and got distracted and didn't put the hoop all the way back. I hit emergency stop immediately but hear some horrible crash, but it didn't look like it hit the hoop. Presser foot and needle stayed down. We managed to get the foot up enough to free the garment and hoop by taking off the arms and manually moving the z driveshaft (per Rod's suggestion on another thread). Then I mused out loud "wonder if we can move to another needle" and my partner thought I told her to and then BOOM...series of crunches and now 2 needles down (but movable), presser foot partway down and color change stepper index error. If you have any ideas, please post! I'm going to post this on the boards as well. Thanks, and hope your machine is working like a trooper! Kim @ Athena Embroidery Accents *************** =========================================================== The AmayaUsers Mailing List Website: http://www.amayausers.com Discussion Board: http://www.amayausers.com/boards Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://www.amayausers.com/list ===========================================================