Sorry, I can't help with motor growling, but probably it is not happy being woken up after all the years it has gone unused LOL. Are you leaving it plugged in? Or are you doing decorative stitches that then decides to straight stitch after awhile? I'm not sure what would cause that. It might be something in the computer board. And I'm no help with that, either.
I don't know if there is a Necchi IO or facebook group that may be of help. I used to belong to some Yahoo groups, but when Yahoo groups closed down, I never transferred to wherever they went.
Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.
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