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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 is not working

« on: March 11, 2008, 03:00:05 AM »

Hi, Hood!

Just some funny thing to let you know.

Last Friday, I went to Central Department store,the computer section, supposed  to shop one desk top for Mach.

As Ripley said, "Believe it or Not" all of the tested five sets, shown only blue screen or simply
shutdown after downloaded. Not even one set to prompted me to reboot.

PJ.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 is not working

« on: March 07, 2008, 04:28:31 AM »

Hood, though that I should buy one desk top only for Mach3, may be a used one will do the job.

This should be a last post, unless I could found out why Mach won't work in my note book.

Thanks you so much for every suggestions and supporting,

Until then, Bye.
PJ.

If you can use one of the desktops again but this time format it and just have Windows and Mach installed.
 Laptops can sometimes have issues with Mach but really its not the problems you are having. Just dont understand why you are not getting DRO movements with the driver installed.

Hood

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 is not working

« on: March 06, 2008, 06:17:23 AM »

Dear Hood,

Thanks for your kind .xml checked. I was tried this Mach 2,3 with 6~9 desk top computer and only got blue screen for every sets until downloaded to HP notebook, Pentium M processor,1.73 Ghz, 760MB Ram.  No more blue screen but unluckily for it won't run with driver installed, but the Driver tested is O.K

I supposed it should be some way of trouble shooting and make it works or this software is not compatible with notebook?

Regards,
PJ.

PJ
 just looked at your xml, cant see anything wrong here and it seems to work fine with the driver installed. Can you try on another computer?
Hood

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 is not working

« on: March 05, 2008, 01:12:20 AM »

Thanks to Mr. Hood, Adam, Chip for helped.

Attached is Mach3 mill.xml file.

Please let me know if it can help.

Regards,
PJ.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 is not working

« on: March 04, 2008, 08:49:56 AM »

Dear Hood,

Please let me know the procedure to attach xml file, copy from and paste to for example.

Regards,
PJ.

Can you attach your xml file and we can have a look and see if its a setting that is the problem. You will have to use the full reply form and use the additional options tab to attach it, you will also have to rename the file before you attach it, if you rename it something like PJ.xml the forum will accept it.
Hood

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 is not working

« on: March 03, 2008, 09:33:51 AM »

X,Y,Z and Spindle were enabled since the first started.

Thanks,
PJ.

Just enable the axis in ports and pins, no need to set up pins or ports for them, just make sure they are enabled and the DROs should move.
Hood

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 is not working

« on: March 03, 2008, 04:48:32 AM »

Adam,

Am very wondering why Mach 3 is emulated when the driver is uninstalled, jog or runs program.

But it won't work when the driver is installled, the driver test is O.K.

Will you suggest to plug in the axis controler in order to make it works??

Thanks,
PJ.

PJ, I use the hobby cnc board - its working. Watch the videos http://www.artsoftcontrols.com/Videos/Mach3%20Video%20Selections/Mach3%20Video%20Selections.html

Adam

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 is not working

« on: March 03, 2008, 04:16:44 AM »

Thanks Adam,

I will check for the video, hope for some hints.

Rgds,
PJ.

Hello PJ
I don`t know how much experience do you have, but this is my first time and it took me one week to understand the setup and set up my machine:-) I still have a lot of questions.
There is a great instructions and videos on the webpage.

Adam

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 is not working

« on: March 03, 2008, 04:10:05 AM »

Dear Hood,

Thanks for reply,

I do have a controller board from Hobby CNC but did not plug in yet. Just try to emulated the functionning from Mach 3.

Though if it working then I will hook it up.

No, I never had it working, simply a very first trying.

RGDS,
PJ.

PJ,
 bit more info please, what type of drives/motors/breakout etc do you have ?
 Have you previously had thie working?

Hood

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General Mach Discussion / Mach3 is not working

« on: March 02, 2008, 11:39:05 PM »

Just download Mach3 R3.037. After reboot,the driver test is in order but all the axis won't be jog able or run with G code.

I found that uninstalled the driver will make the control back to works.

Would it be something wrong from parameter setting.

Any kind of suggestions will be appreciates.

alay.