Thanks, Hood,
Okay, did the first one, restarted pc, restarted mach (pod plugged in and switched on),
Despite seeing 'Deskpod-ncPOD-plugin-3.00.--A.Fenerty-B-I'' 'in the motion control hardware sensed!' dialogue at start of mach, I'm still only seeing 'nc~POD v2.00.059 config' in the dropdown under 'plugin control', plus an ominously empty config box... (see attached)
Still no response from motors or DRO's while jogging, and it won't run gcode that will run (although not on the machine itself, obviously) when I have the parallel port driver selected. I seem to remember something automatically appeared there last time I did all this... I know I had same problems a year ago, forgot to write down what I did.
Rich B