I think my question is too noobish for anyone to help. I went on to reinstall Mach3 and chose the default of not using a 3rd party controller. This time, drivertest.exe appears. Went on to run the program after rebooting. It ran without problem. Next is to learn how to interpret the result.
I'm using a notebook on vista with no parallel port. Will be ordering smooth stepper given the cost as compared to my original intention of having a CNC Brain. CNC Brain seems a wonderful product and Bruce and those in its forum are really nice and helpful folks. I promised myself to definitely own one when the situation is more stable next year. Job security is a major concern.
To folks using smooth stepper on laptop with Vista, is there anything I should look out for beside disabling speedstep, power saving feature, etc?
Any help/suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Wong