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Mach3 under Vista / The Classic: DRO's move, motors don't; Win 7
« on: July 11, 2018, 10:06:02 PM »
I ran Mach3 on my XP for almost 10 years on my CNC router. Everything worked pretty good until the XP computer crashed permanently. I transferred the XP hard drive to a USB enclosure and plugged it into a duo core Win7 so that I can run exactly the same software as previously. The DriverTest worked finally after I right-clicked Run as Administrator. The test rated the timer test as excellent.
I am using port 378; see first thumbnail. The motors have never moved with my new system, no movdment, no jog. Following Patrick Hood-Daniel's video on testing the parallel port, I tested output pins 2 through 9 because I suspect the problem here is something to do with the parallel port: the results were satisfactory were satisfactory, with active lows about 0.08 v and active highs of about 3.4, except to output pin 3, which was active low 0.2 and active high of 0.012 v.
One other thing indicates a serious problem; see the second thumbnail. TheDiagnostics screen, Time in Int varies from about 65 to 85, not 6.5 to 8.5, which makes no sense at all. Paul Campbell, Tutorial #5, Troubleshooting, his Diagnostics screeen Time in Int is running about 3.5, which he calculates means 11% of the computer time, a reasonable amount of time, he says. Since both our Mach3s are running at close to 25K frequency, that means, I think, my Time in Interupts is somewhere north of 200%. Definately a WTF (What The For-goodness sakes) moment.
I would greatly appreciate any and all clues as to where to look for the solution.
Sorry, but I can't get the 2 pictures to load/attach.
I am using port 378; see first thumbnail. The motors have never moved with my new system, no movdment, no jog. Following Patrick Hood-Daniel's video on testing the parallel port, I tested output pins 2 through 9 because I suspect the problem here is something to do with the parallel port: the results were satisfactory were satisfactory, with active lows about 0.08 v and active highs of about 3.4, except to output pin 3, which was active low 0.2 and active high of 0.012 v.
One other thing indicates a serious problem; see the second thumbnail. TheDiagnostics screen, Time in Int varies from about 65 to 85, not 6.5 to 8.5, which makes no sense at all. Paul Campbell, Tutorial #5, Troubleshooting, his Diagnostics screeen Time in Int is running about 3.5, which he calculates means 11% of the computer time, a reasonable amount of time, he says. Since both our Mach3s are running at close to 25K frequency, that means, I think, my Time in Interupts is somewhere north of 200%. Definately a WTF (What The For-goodness sakes) moment.
I would greatly appreciate any and all clues as to where to look for the solution.
Sorry, but I can't get the 2 pictures to load/attach.