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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: October 27, 2015, 08:42:59 PM »

Art:

You, Sir, are a genius; I got it installed and DarvinTest ran successfully.  Now I have a new challenge for you...  I continued with the instructions that came with Darwin2762;  copied and paste the drivers to the appropriate folders without Mach4 running, but once I run Mach4 they are not loading.  I doubled and tripled checked the folders and ran Mach4 again and they still do not load under Mach4/Config/Plugins.  Also, the only option I'm given for Select Motion Device is the Simulation Device.  Thanks again for your time.  I can't thank you enough for you help!!

Ben     

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: October 27, 2015, 08:20:19 AM »

Hello Art, thanks for such a quick response.  The Windows 7 I'm operating is 32 bit.  I checked the Device Manager and it does not have the entry for Mach Pulseing engine; I also checked under User Account and I am logged in as the administrator.  I went ahead and uninstalled and then reinstalled Mach4 and the option to install as admin was given.  So I'm assuming that it was installed as admin, but you know what they say about assumptions.  After re-installation with licenses loaded the results were the same; "Darwin Driver Installation Failed".  Thanks again for helping me troubleshoot.

Ben

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: October 26, 2015, 08:51:24 PM »

I'm running Mach4 on a laptop with Windows 7; I have purchased and installed the licenses for Mach4 and the Darwin Parallel Port Plugin.  I downloaded the latest plugin for Darwin, 2762, and ran the DarwinTest.exe and it Failed.  If you encountered this issue the only guidance under the installation instructions stated "If it fails to load you need to load the driver manually from this folder as in Mach3 with the old driver."  I never owned Mach3 so I downloaded the manual for it and the instructions to manually load the driver must be for XP or later because you cannot use these instructions for Windows 7.  Can someone please provide me the corrective action for this issue?  Also, I am not a real tech savvy guy so if you could break it down "Barney Style" for me I would greatly appreciate it.  Thanks in advance!!