Need assistance setting up Mach3 for evaluation

[mrgadgeteer]

Hi Everyone, I wonder if someone could help me get Mach3 working, here is my problem:

extracted from my other thread: http://www.cnczone.com/forums/showth...453#post725453
PC: 2.4GHz with 3G's of RAM running Vista. Kcam working fine but stepper still has a "pulse" noise. Only improvement is that Kcam program does not "hang" on other PC or mouse activity.

I installed the Mach3 Trial, configured parallel port pin 2 as step and 3 as direction (same as my working Kcam settings) and E-stop is set to Emulated - using no physical inputs. When I enable Jog and use the manual Jog buttons the X axis readout increments or decrements accordingly but the stepper is motionless and no logic changes are noted on the breakout board.

My assumption is Mach3 "thinks" it's moving the stepper but perhaps I missed a certain setting? Mach3 has soooo many settings....

Can someone who knows the in's and out's of Mach3 help me out?
Thanks in advance!
Mike

[ger21]

The port address may be set wrong. Also make sure pin 2 and 3 (and any others) are assigned to Port 1.

You did install the driver when you installed Mach3, right?

[ger21]

Also, you're not using Vista X64, are you?

[mrgadgeteer]

32 bit Vista but the port wasn't defined, it's working now. Thank You!