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General Mach Discussion / brand-newbie needs help setting up plasma/router table

« on: July 08, 2007, 06:31:05 PM »

Hi everyone,

I am having a dickens of a time setting up my table, and don't know
where to start. I bought a dual plasma/router table from DynaCNC.
I am attempting to use a computer I have already. It is windows Vista
powered and I added an additional parallel port yesterday. I have
followed all Mach3 vista set up instructions, but still can't get my
table to do anything.

When I reset mach 3 I get an external emergency stop request. What I
can deduce is that my parallel port is in conflict with itself. it is
a multi I/o card and the LPT2 listing says that is range is in use
already. Of course it is in use with the multi i/o function.

I assume that this is causing port to not provide the correct
information to the controller. When I disable port 2, I actually can
get to cycle through the three axis, but only in the software. My
table does not move.

I suppose I should have sprung for a computer along with my machine
that was already configured.. but I had an extra sitting around.
Where should I start to determine what is the problem?