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General Mach Discussion / Add-on PCI card or another type of connection?
« on: November 24, 2014, 05:36:30 PM »
Hello, I`m trying to control new 3 axes router with Mach3 and Win XP
My motherboard is ASUS P5Q PRO. It does not have built-in parallel port. So I installed add-on card to one of the PCI ports.
The card is Moschip Semiconductor mcs9865. It has 2 serial and 1 parallel ports. From device manager I saw the PCI Parallel port adress: first value in i/o range is EC00. Of course, I changed the default adress 0x378 with this one EC00 in mach3.
With drivertest.exe I saw continious unstable signal from 35 000 up to 44 000.
In fact, the PC does not send any signals to the parallel port.
In the diagnostics tab on mach3, I don`t see any leds blinking whatever I do. I see only few parameters - Time in int. (changing really fast from 2.6 to 3.7) and Input signal current state = 24 112
I don`t know what to do. I guess this add-on card sucks.
Do you have any suggestion for reliable COMPUTER-TO-LPT (Parallel port) connection?
Thanks
Dimitar
My motherboard is ASUS P5Q PRO. It does not have built-in parallel port. So I installed add-on card to one of the PCI ports.
The card is Moschip Semiconductor mcs9865. It has 2 serial and 1 parallel ports. From device manager I saw the PCI Parallel port adress: first value in i/o range is EC00. Of course, I changed the default adress 0x378 with this one EC00 in mach3.
With drivertest.exe I saw continious unstable signal from 35 000 up to 44 000.
In fact, the PC does not send any signals to the parallel port.
In the diagnostics tab on mach3, I don`t see any leds blinking whatever I do. I see only few parameters - Time in int. (changing really fast from 2.6 to 3.7) and Input signal current state = 24 112
I don`t know what to do. I guess this add-on card sucks.
Do you have any suggestion for reliable COMPUTER-TO-LPT (Parallel port) connection?
Thanks
Dimitar