stuck need help

[petesos]

Hi all
any ideas how to do a fix . My cnc has been turned off for about 12 months due to personal circumstances and now i am back at it , so turned it on and everthing works but the machine aint moving , the steppers are exited and i write a program and it loads to mach 3 but i can not do anything with the machine ( jog ) nothing has been changed or anything it just wont move now any ideas anyone
please.

[Voicecoil]

Have you checked that there is power to the control unit and steppers?

[petesos]

Hi
Yes there is power to the unit as the machine fires up ok and the stepper motors are all locked ready to work

[JohnHaine]

Is the esto button flashing?

[petesos]

Hi There
Yes the estop is flashing

[petesos]

in my mach3 when i load mach3 a window comes up asking me what port i want to use it has never done that before and i have tried using every port but still no movement

[JohnHaine]

What motion controller do you have? Parallel port? If the estop is flashing try clicking on it

[petesos]

Just clicked on the estop and still no movement .
When i load mach3 a window comes up that says YOUR SYTEM IS SHOWING MORE THAN ONE CONTROL DEVICE PLEASE PICK THE ONE YOU WOULD LIKE THIS PROFILE TO USE.
NORMAL PRINTER PORT OPERATION
BSMOTION _V2.0
OR NO DEVICE

[petesos]

Am using a data cable

[JohnHaine]

What sort of data cable and where is it connected? But try selecting the second.

[petesos]

USB type , just tried selecting the second one and nothing still . i have tried putting the cable into every port but no luck and yet if i plug in the keyboard and mouse into the same ports they all work fine

[JohnHaine]

Do you have the manual? IIRC you may need to select the USB one, clock OK, then restart Mach for the change to take effect. READ THE MANUAL!

[petesos]

will look for the manual now