Well that didn't work either.  The driver test failed.  It ran the preparation fine but when it initiated the driver test it crashed the VM.  Not sure what is going on but it sucks!  If anyone has it working in XP mode on Windows 7 I would love to see your VM settings.

Hello I am new but most mb's do still have a pp port, its just a header connector on the board.  I have run into two styles most have a very readily available one and msi has there own. the msi is smaller but can be found on the net. the last one I built cost me 450 with a 24 inch refurbished monitor from tiger. It runs emc,Mach,corel and turboCad no problems on xp pro or Win7 32

I like cheap

the only time it skipped steps was when I ran faster then 60ipm and its a Shirline 20tpi, it will run 55 but I keep it at 40 so the nuts stay tite for more then a day. I also drilled the table for lube.

and thanks to everyone on this site as I'm 2 months into this "hobby" and from just reading stuff here I'm doing 4 axis work