Hi there john I managed to get a few things setup.
what I found out was that in order for mach 3 to run on my laptop it needed to have Parallel Port checkbox ticked on initial installation and now it shows in Diagnostics tab :: pulse and other processors incrementing and decrementing which watching the you tube video shows thats what I need to see ,also I did a Driver Test on my Laptop and it said Excellent in green and all stable.so all that is good. So I proceeded forward to the Motor outputs tab and looked at the pdf they sent for my machine and set the Step pin and Dir pin according to the pdf spec pinout ,so I need to know what else needs to be checked on the motor output tab.I also want Mach 3 to control spindle automatically do I need to check that and anything else on that page and also on the Input signals tab what needs to be ticked for all limit switches and homing to work having trouble with that not working???????Please help thank you