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General Mach Discussion / Re: Win XP installation woes - G-code stops at first motion line
« on: December 19, 2014, 06:12:50 PM »
Ok - I have made some progress. Using a couple of different XP and 2K machines (with and without port driver installed and with and without physical ports) I have figured out the following. (using diagnostics page and windows device manager.. )
- if you don't have a port, you get a pulse frequency of "simulated" - and you can dry run g-code
- if you do have a port, and you install the port driver you get a pulse frequency of 25 kHz+ or something positive depending what you config - and you can dry run g-code
- if you do have a port, and you un-install the port driver you get "simulated" again. and you can dry run g-code
and my one weird case which has me stumped because this is the computer I need to run this on...
- I have a port, I installed the driver, and I get a pulse frequency of "0". and this is the situation that won't run motion.
So - the new question is, what causes the port frequency to be "0". Is this a driver/port problem? or a setting?
Thanks
James
- if you don't have a port, you get a pulse frequency of "simulated" - and you can dry run g-code
- if you do have a port, and you install the port driver you get a pulse frequency of 25 kHz+ or something positive depending what you config - and you can dry run g-code
- if you do have a port, and you un-install the port driver you get "simulated" again. and you can dry run g-code
and my one weird case which has me stumped because this is the computer I need to run this on...
- I have a port, I installed the driver, and I get a pulse frequency of "0". and this is the situation that won't run motion.
So - the new question is, what causes the port frequency to be "0". Is this a driver/port problem? or a setting?
Thanks
James