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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: patface on July 19, 2014, 07:18:22 PM
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First things first I am a newb but not clueless and have tried a number of things to solve my issues but now I come to you for help.
So I bought a homebuilt CNC from a yard sale and everything seemed to work well. I declined to purchase the computer they had hooked up to it because I already have several "beater" systems at home. I get it home and find I have to use a parallel port, no biggie I go to newegg and purchase one. Few days later it comes in I install it and hook everything up. Now I can't get mach3 to communicate with the motors or the computer to communicate with the breakout board. To be honest I'm not sure which.
Did some reading and figured out I need to assign the port and pins inside mach3 and I do so, after I search and search for info on my breakout board which had no markings of any kind. I eventually find what I think it is, photo attached, and assign pins as directed by it's documentation, no dice. I triple check my newly installed pci parallel card to confirm the port and it seems to check out. I checked the bios and could not find any options there. So now I am clueless and coming to you guys.
I will note I did watch the machine run at the yard sale so Im fairly confident that nothing is broken but who knows.
Windows 7 64bit
mach3, was given to me on a flash drive. I am not confident it was not a pirated copy so after I hit post here I am going to uninstall and reinstall the demo version from this site and give it one more go. I fully intend to purchase the full version once I get up and running.
Ask any questions you need
Photo I took of the actual Breakout board
(http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee347/cowchipbingo/20140712_183855_zps99264e32.jpg) (http://s534.photobucket.com/user/cowchipbingo/media/20140712_183855_zps99264e32.jpg.html)
Documention I found for the breakout board after exhaustive googling.
(http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee347/cowchipbingo/breakoutboard_zps275d5932.png) (http://s534.photobucket.com/user/cowchipbingo/media/breakoutboard_zps275d5932.png.html)
Parallel Info my Device Manager
(http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee347/cowchipbingo/parallelportinfo_zps791c9fa6.png) (http://s534.photobucket.com/user/cowchipbingo/media/parallelportinfo_zps791c9fa6.png.html)
Basic settings
(http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee347/cowchipbingo/parallelportinfo2_zpsccc9c55e.png) (http://s534.photobucket.com/user/cowchipbingo/media/parallelportinfo2_zpsccc9c55e.png.html)
Port and pins settings
(http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee347/cowchipbingo/motoroutputs_zps1c6f3693.png) (http://s534.photobucket.com/user/cowchipbingo/media/motoroutputs_zps1c6f3693.png.html)
Thank you in advance for any assistance.
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Mach3 is a 32 bit system.
This http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,27428.msg193654.html#msg193654 (http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,27428.msg193654.html#msg193654) might help.
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As Ozymax mentioned you will not be able to use the parallel port with a 64 bit OS.
Not that it will help but I also notice that you entered the address 0x800 as your Port#1 in Mach - it should be 0xC800.
Tweakie.