Really stuck....
I have had a 3 axis mill up an running fine on a 700mhz laptop
, Finaly decided to use a more powerful desktop with XP and latest Mach3 Lockdown. Once I have configured Mach correctly I can Jog my
machine for about 10 seconds or so then the pulse timing goes crazy and the motors will scream, jump and stall but they do try to move in the correct direction! A reboot cures it for another 10 seconds. I have even tried a different Motherboard and processor (Both AMD Athalon XP 2800) and both ECP parallell port on board giving out 5v at address 0378 and same problem ive lost count of how many times I have reinstalled windows even Win 2k and still no joy have also tried with Mach2 and earlier Mach3 releases.
I am confident that it is all set up perfectly I have tried every kernel speed and rebooted after. My Parallel port works ok because I can turn on my spindle and see the limits/probe change state in the diagnostic screen.
One thing I have noticed is I dont seem to get the Driver successfully initialised in the status window? However the Machengine does appear in device manager. I have also allready tried using the special driver by running the batch file but nothing works with that one so reverted back to original driver.
If any one can help
Thanks