Well, not exactly new. It's a Dell D610 laptop. It's the newest laptop I could find with a parallel port.
I installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 and did all the updates (183!!)
Then I installed Mach3. Other than Windows, it's the only thing on the machine.
When I did the driver test, it crashed. Went straight into reboot.
So, I uninstalled and re-installed the driver and rebooted. Same problem.
Ran specialdriver.bat. Windows gave me a bunch of grief about compatibility but I went with the suggested settings and it seemed to run normally.
Now when I run driver test, it doesn't crash but it doesn't pulse either. No graph parading in the window, no pulses per second, no timer variation, no nuttin.
The only clue I have is when I click the Start Timer, I get a message box that informs me that it 'Could not locate missing vectors'.
Any suggestions would be welcome.