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FAQs / Re: Can't get any response from parallel port

« on: February 17, 2009, 05:21:52 PM »

It turns out I had the wrong port number selected (0 instead of 1). I would had figured that the diagnostics page would show pin status regardless as long as it had the right parallel port address, but apparently not. At any rate, I seem to have controls working now.

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FAQs / Re: Can't get any response from parallel port

« on: February 17, 2009, 02:23:23 PM »

Ok, using the port monitor I can see my switches are in fact causing the input pin to go high, but Mach3 never seems to get the signal. Likewise, jogging shows no activity on the parallel port in the port monitor. I've verified that Mach3 is using the same address as the port monitor. I still can't get the input auto-detect to detect my switches. Any other thoughts as to what might be keeping mach3 from communicating with the parallel port?

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FAQs / Can't get any response from parallel port

« on: February 12, 2009, 03:42:29 PM »

I can't seem to get Mach3 to interact with the parallel port on my computer. I checked in the device manager, and I have the address correct (378).  I couldn't seem to get my motors to respond, so I tried setting up an input switch as shown here http://solsylva.com/cnc/xylotex.shtml . However, triggering the switch shows no activity on the diagnostics, and using the auto-detect for setting up an input switch doesn't detect the switch when pressed. I just switched over from EMC, and the setup worked previously, so I'm not sure what the problem might be. Any ideas what I can do to troubleshoot this?