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Introduction and question about Mach3
« on: January 09, 2015, 05:00:23 AM »
Hello I am new to this forum. I am a Mach3 user for some time and have been running it on an XP machine and with my custom made Mill. I am 40 years of age and hobbies are everything which concerns racing ;-) Living in the Netherlands.

Like I said I am using Mach3 for some time now. Great product. Now I have to migrate my Windows environment to Windows 8 because the dependency for other applications I am using is asking me to. I have been installing it on Windows 8 and had it working. But when I restart my PC it says something about the Mach3.sys and wants to restore all the time. Very annoying.

Does someone know what to do?

Thanks in advance!

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Re: Introduction and question about Mach3
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2015, 07:33:17 AM »
If it is a 64bit install then  it will not work with the parallel port driver
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Re: Introduction and question about Mach3
« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2015, 07:49:10 AM »
I thought the parallel port driver won't work on any version of Windows 8?
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Re: Introduction and question about Mach3
« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2015, 06:43:26 AM »
Quite possibly Gerry.

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Re: Introduction and question about Mach3
« Reply #4 on: January 11, 2015, 04:08:02 PM »
I remember there is a version(32bit) of Win 8 that works with the LPT. Art discovered it.

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Re: Introduction and question about Mach3
« Reply #5 on: January 11, 2015, 04:40:39 PM »
Win8.1 it was I believe

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