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General Mach Discussion / Problem after installing new PC computer with Mach3
« on: March 25, 2014, 08:42:16 PM »
I have been using my plasma table for about a month now and decided to upgrade my computer with a faster and bigger computer.
I reinstalled all the software and setup Mach 3 with all the information off my old PC. The one thing that is different is the new PC has a separate card and cable for the printer port. I am running XP on both machines. I went to device manager and got the io range for the lava parallel PCI port (e000-e007) and entered that in the port address for port 1.
Everything seems to work except for turning on the plasma cutter. I can move x,y and z manually with the keys on the keyboard. I can run a g-code file in mach3 as long as I don't try and cut. The problem is as soon as I turn the torch on manually or the g-code file turns on the torch the PC looses communication with the bob. The dro's in mach3 still move if I move the x,y,z with the keyboard but no movement on the table. It does not activate the reset button. I have to reboot the computer and then everything is ok until the torch is activated again.
If I hookup the old PC everything works fine and I can make cuts manually or with mach3.
Any help would be great and very much appreciated.
I reinstalled all the software and setup Mach 3 with all the information off my old PC. The one thing that is different is the new PC has a separate card and cable for the printer port. I am running XP on both machines. I went to device manager and got the io range for the lava parallel PCI port (e000-e007) and entered that in the port address for port 1.
Everything seems to work except for turning on the plasma cutter. I can move x,y and z manually with the keys on the keyboard. I can run a g-code file in mach3 as long as I don't try and cut. The problem is as soon as I turn the torch on manually or the g-code file turns on the torch the PC looses communication with the bob. The dro's in mach3 still move if I move the x,y,z with the keyboard but no movement on the table. It does not activate the reset button. I have to reboot the computer and then everything is ok until the torch is activated again.
If I hookup the old PC everything works fine and I can make cuts manually or with mach3.
Any help would be great and very much appreciated.