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« on: December 22, 2016, 09:55:19 PM »
lets try again.
2 years running on XP with cambam and auto cad into a Chinese CNC router. All good. Electrical storm blew out the hard drive. Decided on a new tower and bought one and had parallel port installed. Loaded window 7 32 bit. All good so far.
Loaded other programs all good including cambam and autocad. This PC is a stand alone and is in the shed where the machinery is. No internet connection.
Loaded Mach 3 and loaded as normal with no apparent issues. Set native units, set port values at motor inputs as per the specifics previously and worked through the configuration. All set. Restart etc. Applied the license.
Try to jog the CNC machine and nothing moves. DRO's on the program run page indicate the XY and Z axis are moving but nothing at the machine.
2 days at the computor repair shop of no value.
Suggestions to date via friends and this forum are first
Run program in compatibility mode of XP. no value. next
Check LPT port address of mach 3 and window are the same. I'm assuming the Mach 3 port address is on the screen of ports and pins under config? Hopefully a pix is attached.
I've also attached a pix of what I think the window port setting are. Or may be not? Am I right? These settings seem lacking in detail. Am I right? Am I in the right spot? next
Run driver test in the Mach 3 folder. Another pix hopefully? Is this the driver two thirds down the first column where it says driver test? I click on it nothing happens or rather nothing appear to happen. Again am I in the right spot?
Another thing my Asian computer people discovered is in the devices manager and clicking on Mach pulsing engine a line appears below Mach 3 driver with a question mark? Hopefully a pix is here