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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: bpimm on September 01, 2011, 01:29:00 PM
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Hi,
i have been running mach3 for several months, My computer is on it's last leg. I am trying to replace it similar performance but newer machine. The new machine has no parallel card so i bought the Roswell from newegg that was linked in a previous thread, installed it with the linked driver from the chipset manufacturer. I also copied my XML file from the old machine to the new install.
I have no output from the parallel card to the G540, I checked with meter on the pins, Also checked the parallel card with a LED driver program and it works, the address in Mach is set to the same one that works with the LED driver program. When I run driver test I get "pulses to fast". What is it telling me?
I am not a computer guy, I prefer to hit things with a hammer. :)
Any advise?
Brian
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The cards that seem to work in cases like yours need to work without a factory driver, try reinstall with an ms generic driver first before hunting cards, the startechs from tigerdirect have never failed.
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Sounds like the driver is not installed properly. Try deleting the driver from device manager and then running the driver test, the first time the driver test is run it will give pulsing too fast or similar message as it installs the driver, the next time you run it will hopefully be fine.
What operating system are you using?
Hood
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No change. I get one quick flash of "Excellent system stable" followed by "Pulses too fast"
Windows 7 is the operating system.
Brian
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Is it 32bit or 64bit Windows 7?
Hood
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32 bit.
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Should work then, can you attach a screenshot of your PCI ports resources page and also your xml.
Hood
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Thanks Hood,
Attached
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Ok port address does seem fine from screenshot. Not sure why the drivertest is not working right. You dont have the ports set for the axis so enable them and see what it runs like if at all. See screenshot.
Hood
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OK, that is the same as the original computer, What do I set them to, windows calls it LPT3. would I set it to 3?
Brian
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Set them all to 1
Hood
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Thank you Thank you Thank you, the motors are turning.. Just turning slow I'll check my setup.
;D
Brian
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Good its going, still a bit concerned about the driver test though. What does the Time in Int and also the Frequency say on Diagnostics page?
Hood
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Here is a screen shot of the driver test.
Motor calibration is off, should it change from computer to computer?
Brian
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Calibration should be the same if you use the same xml but unless you changed that xml it couldnt be the same one as no way the motors would run without you having the port numbers entered.
I am wondering if ossibly you need to run the driver test in compatibility mode? Never used Mach on W7 so not sure.
Hood
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Good its going, still a bit concerned about the driver test though. What does the Time in Int and also the Frequency say on Diagnostics page?
Hood
time in Int is fluctuating between +3 and +4
Frequency is 25003
Brian
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All is good then, it would seem its just the driver test itself that is not wanting to run correctly under W7, you could try setting it to compatibility mode but if the machine itself is running fine I wouldnt worry too much.
Hood
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Ok, I'm going to make some shavings today, we'll see what happens. Thanks for all the help Hood.
Brian