Nervis,
I feel your pain!
One possibility is you could make sure that your baud rate on the CNC side is set the same as the baud on the PC side. Do you have that application icon on the PC side that looks like a penguin? I forget, its some kind of communication utility. I had to use it once to get this same problem solved. 1st try a lower baud say 9600, then take it back up when you get it handshaking.
Does your PC have a floppy or a CD?
We have 2 CNC with 2 floppy drives each. I wanted to install a CD, I called Fadal, they said: "Nobody here has heard of putting a CD in a MP32, and no we don't have that as an option".
(I think they just want to come out and charge a service call for the simplest tasks.)
By the way, we grabed an old CD drive, put it in one of the bays, installed it in windows 95... No problem! We can now move large data files to the CNC hard drive, then DNC code into the CNC memory all at practically no cost (except time).
Scott_bob
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