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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 on lap top wont operate

« on: November 25, 2007, 09:53:02 PM »

Chip, Those port #'s did not make any difference.
Hood, I think may do just that. I'm going to try another thing or 2 first because it takes so long to load XP.
Thanks again guys,
Al

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 on lap top wont operate

« on: November 25, 2007, 06:54:48 PM »

Seams to me as though Mach is not getting a hold of the port. I may try reloading Mach yet again. I have allready installed and unistalled
it 2 or 3 times. Getting pretty frustrated. I think I'll walk away from it for a bit and try again latter.
Thanks again for your help.
Al

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 on lap top wont operate

« on: November 25, 2007, 06:47:53 PM »

Yes, the same voltages.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 on lap top wont operate

« on: November 25, 2007, 06:41:24 PM »

Hood, That is the same xml as I use on a PC and it works fine. Did you try it on a PC or a laptop ? I have tried 2 different laptops, even different brands with different processors, ram, etc. and get similar results. Voltages as described in an earlier post with no voltage changes under Mach. Also no movements at all. I am going to try and find an updated driver. Maybe that will help. I am pretty sure I am checking the voltages correctly.
Thanks for the help,
Al

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 on lap top wont operate

« on: November 25, 2007, 05:39:01 PM »

This should be the .xml file.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 on lap top wont operate

« on: November 25, 2007, 05:26:34 PM »

Hood, I can't for the life of me remember how to post a file here. Can you help me ?
Al

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 on lap top wont operate

« on: November 25, 2007, 05:16:27 PM »

In the Device manager it shows 0378-037A and sys it is working properly.
Do I need to tweek something here ?
Al

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 on lap top wont operate

« on: November 25, 2007, 05:06:49 PM »

Yes, the port setting is 0x378. How can I tell what the correct port address should be ?
Al

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 on lap top wont operate

« on: November 25, 2007, 04:52:34 PM »

Ok, I got the crashng to stop. I ran through the optimization settings. I think that's a good idea in my situation because the laptop will be used only to control a machine and nothing else. Still no movement on the machine. Checking the output voltages I get 4.3 volts all of the time on pins 1 thru 16, pin 17 is .44 volts and 18 thru 25 are grounds. Makes no difference if Mach is running or not. What am I missing here ?
Al

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 on lap top wont operate

« on: November 25, 2007, 12:03:31 AM »

Chip, I ran the special driver program and it makes the computer crash, reboot with errors, when I tried to run
Mach. I then ran the original driver test program and the same thing still happens.
Brett, I will check out the optimazation file area. Quick time is not installed on the laptop.
I will check this out further tomorrow. Thanks guys for the help.
Al