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General Mach Discussion / Re: New to CNC and Ignorant
« on: July 12, 2023, 08:45:28 AM »
Back in its day the MP3000 was a popular multitask controller used with Mach3 but it was designed around WinXP so the chances of ever getting an MP3000 to work with Win7 are pretty slim (I believe the set-up disk (supplied by CandCNC) made some changes to the WinXP registry as well as adding .dll and other files to the Windows folder. It may also have made some changes to the Mach3 installation).
The MP3000 is old (like me) and I have no idea if or where a set-up disk can be obtained. You could perhaps try CNCzone to see if anyone there still uses the MP3000.
Perhaps extreme...
If you are computer savvy then the way forward may be to make an identical ‘clone’ of your old PC. If, for example, you could obtain an identical PC motherboard then cloning the HDD is easy enough then everything should work without issue. However, just cloning the HDD and fitting to a different motherboard is unlikely to work.
Hope this helps.
Tweakie.
The MP3000 is old (like me) and I have no idea if or where a set-up disk can be obtained. You could perhaps try CNCzone to see if anyone there still uses the MP3000.
Perhaps extreme...
If you are computer savvy then the way forward may be to make an identical ‘clone’ of your old PC. If, for example, you could obtain an identical PC motherboard then cloning the HDD is easy enough then everything should work without issue. However, just cloning the HDD and fitting to a different motherboard is unlikely to work.
Hope this helps.
Tweakie.