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Mach3 under Vista / Re: Getting up and running in Vista

« on: November 18, 2007, 09:37:05 PM »

Hi Art,

I have just installed Mach3 version R1.84.001 on a new desktop computer running Vista.

I have run memoryoverride.reg per your instructions in "Getting up and running in Vista".

For step 3 of your instructions, I ran drivertest.exe in the "run as administrator" mode and it completed with a "Mach1 test complete" window.  When I click OK I get a window that says "Mach1 OCX and Driver loader has stopped working".  I selected "close program".

The first couple times I did this, I got a blue screen crash.

Next, I re-started even though it did not ask me to.

After re-starting, I started Mach3 Mill in "Run as administrator" mode.

I haven't figured out a pattern yet but almost every time I shut down Mach3, I get a blue screen crash.

Vista has never asked anything about "compatability mode".

Do you have any further instructions?

Should I try a newer release of Mach3?

Thanks, Ed

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Sony laptop

« on: April 07, 2006, 01:30:13 PM »

I just installed Mach3 on a new HP nc6120 running Windows XP Professional.  After a hint from Art that I should try the optimisation guide I got things running.  I selected the HP nc6120 because it is one of the only new notebooks on the market that still has a parallel port.  Everything else seems to be going USB.

Hope this helps,

Ed

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General Mach Discussion / Re: mach2 but not mach3?

« on: April 07, 2006, 01:19:58 PM »

Hello G,

I just set up Mach3 and ran into the same issue.  If you go to the ports & pins setup screen for Motor Outputs and look over to the far right, you will see cells that indicate which port to use for step and dir.  The default was 0 for my installation.  I set them to 1 to match the port number of the parallel port I am using and started getting output.

You may have already tried this but, if not, I hope this works for you.

Ed