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Mach Discussion => Mach3 under Vista => Topic started by: Hylan on December 27, 2014, 04:22:15 PM
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I just built a new computer Windows7-32bit and installed Mach3. My machine is running using a db25 parallel port and is outputting and controlling the machine fine. However, I have no inputs. My E-stop is on pin 12 and it worked fine on the older XP computer that died. Now I can't for the life of me figure out why it's not working. I had to change how it was setup just to clear the estop.
I had seen that I might need to change my bios for the serial port to ECP+EPP from bidirectional. However, this isn't an option in my bios (see attached picture).
Any suggestions are welcome. I'm wondering if I don't need to add a Smooth Stepper to the system and not use the serial output? Thoughts on this?
Thanks,
Hylan
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Hi,
you are looking in the serial port settings, but
you have to look for parallel Port settings.
Thomas
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Thomas, you are right and I went back in and there are no bios settings for the parallel ports. I guess this makes sense since the mobo doesn't have any parallel ports on it. I have a old parallel port installed (not sure of it's make or model) and this one is the one I'm using and running the machine with. It outputs but doesn't input.
I saw others posting that the Lava dual PP boards work really well. So I bought one and installed it. However, I can't get it to work at all. I think it's a setting issue, but I can't get any of the utility software to run on my computer.
Any advice on how to configure the Lava board on a Win7-32 machine?
Thanks,
Hylan
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Hylan,
have you checked in control panel -> hardware (hope it named so in the englisch version)
how the card is detected by the system ?
maybe you have to install a new driver from Lava homepage.
Thomas
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Thomas,
Yes, I checked everything and downloaded the driver from Lava. It still didn't work. I finally gave up and installed an Ethernet Smooth Stepper and everything is now back up and running properly!
Thank you,
Hylan