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General Mach Discussion / Re: "No driver seemed installed. Run driver test."

« on: September 28, 2013, 08:46:34 PM »

Seller, sent a technician this morning to install Win7 32bit. Good old-fashioned service rarely on the menu these days. For those living in Barbados, seller was Thinking Computers.

Norbert

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General Mach Discussion / Re: "No driver seemed installed. Run driver test."

« on: September 27, 2013, 09:33:04 PM »

Wow, what a bummer    . I hope seller will take computer back for exchange to a 32 bit

Thanks for quick reply, though

Norbert

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General Mach Discussion / "No driver seemed installed. Run driver test."

« on: September 27, 2013, 08:56:10 PM »

Today I had to buy a new computer to replace a 11 year old one running XP Pro SP3. The new 64bit PC came with WIN7 and a parallel port card installed by dealer. No motherboards with on-board parallel port are available nowadays. At least not here.

I can see the parallel port on the Device Manager as LPT1 and the driver also reports as being up-to-date, yet when I install Mach3 R3.043.066 I get  "No  driver seemed installed. Run driver test." which I did but see no result.

The program proper seems to install alright but without the parallel port.

Can anyone suggest a remedy?

Thanks

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Jogging in the Zed goes the wrong direction for a tiny amount

« on: February 03, 2013, 07:10:06 AM »

Hi Justin, glad to hear it's working for you. Still, keep observing machine doing some additional projects before you can feel confident enough that the toolpath works out as planned.

Cheers
Norbert

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Jogging in the Zed goes the wrong direction for a tiny amount

« on: February 02, 2013, 09:01:09 AM »

.....so,what's happening?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Jogging in the Zed goes the wrong direction for a tiny amount

« on: January 29, 2013, 12:44:24 PM »

Justin, please post results when you get the controller up and running with the buffer. I do believe it will work for you....I know how frustrating it can be to have new new machine sitting there and not being able to use it.

The  the chips with dots are the same 2 as on your image.

Good luck
Norbert

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Jogging in the Zed goes the wrong direction for a tiny amount

« on: January 28, 2013, 09:11:25 AM »

Eradicatore,

OK, I re-read your post and it sounds to be exactly the same problem I had.

Here is some background info.

1) I purchased my units (8621 package) through http://www.discountcampus.com/cgi-bin/webc.exe/store/cncSystemsWin.htm and I can highly recommend them. The system came (June 2012) complete with a Dell Optiplex 380 and PCI parallel card. I opted for Windows OS and March 3. Windows is version 7


2) starting Mach3, the very first moves in any direction were mostly correct. Subsequent moves were incorrect. When the controller was warmed-up, the errors were immediate...always Z- and X+ as Y+  I thought it was me because my lack of knowledge of Mach3. (My other machine has a Syntec controller)

3) Between David (of dPP engineering/discount campus) we spent easily 12 (maybe more) hours over several days on the phone. I have a VOM and we went over all the connections on the board. No problem there. We also checked and tried all possible configurations settings but the problem persisted.

4) I contacted Luiz Ally (TechAlly on youtube) and he graciously send me his XML file. Still, the same problem.

5) David then got a RMA and I send the controller back to Sherline for exchange. Replacement arrived and.....same problem.

6) David got a new RMA for the second unit and I got a new board again. Still the same story.

7) Having never heard of a problem like mine, David suspected too weak a parallel signal and suggested the parallel buffer since nothing else seems to work. Obviously Sherline hasn't heard of it either as they didn't suggest trying a buffer before sending a replacement.

The buffer corrected the problem immediately. In retrospect I wish I had ordered his (dPP) "CNC Extended Box"  (without probe) as that has a built-in buffer but at the time I didn't see the need for the other extras and the switches.

As to the white dots on the IC, well, current unit and previous have them.

I had an old PC (7-8 years??) in junk pile storage and the THAT one works without the buffer.

I am neither a technician nor an expert in the CNC field but it looks to me like you have no other option than to get the buffer or see if a friend has an old PC laying around.

Cheers

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Dolphin Lathe tool dra files

« on: January 27, 2013, 08:05:33 AM »

Thanks, Hood, I too have Partmaster (Dolphin) Turn. The metric tool dra files will come in handy.
Thanks again.
Norbert

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Jogging in the Zed goes the wrong direction for a tiny amount

« on: January 26, 2013, 10:28:44 PM »

Eradicatore

I had the same problem except in my case it was mostly the Z axis.....it would mainly go down even when receiving a signal to go raise the spindle.

X and Y would behave erratically too but not as often.

Sherline replaced the controller twice but no improvement at my end. We tried everything you could think of and in the end, what did help was this  http://www.cnc4pc.com/Store/osc/product_info.php?products_id=203 .

An alternative would be to find an old PC XP computer. I found out about that after I got the buffer.