Help please. Dip switches and mach 3 settings

[dazp1976]

Hi dazp1976,
If I got it right, you.re talking about milling steel and/or aluminium. I.ll use it mainly for wood, and sometimes for plastics. I guess each material and machine has it.s own limitations. I.ll keep in mind your specifications for when I get there. At the moment, I.m searching for a new motherboard or pc.
About the Old Gigabyte socket 775 Matx board you.re mentioned some time ago, I can get a separate motherboard and the add to it all else, or get a whole second hand pc. I.ve just found this one for 15 Euro,
https://www.olx.ro/oferta/desktop-pc...tml#e11bdcef1f.
Is this the kind you were talking about?

Yes for milling aluminum.
The PC running my X2 conversion is similar. It was a custom build about 10 years ago that eventually sat in the loft for years. It has this board in with a Celeron 331 (2.66ghz)
https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard...M-S2-rev-10#ov
I put 2GB ram in as I'm using on-board video.
350w psu, dvd, floppy.
Has a faster SATA drive in there but I assume an IDE one will be just as good, just take slightly longer to start up.
Setup is flawless on the 3 axis X2 mill.

Only trouble with sata drive is xp needs an initial driver on a floppy for it when installing fresh. Some boards these days don't have a header.

Have 4GB ram in the new/old Dell and putting a video card in there in case I go 5 axis on the next machine. It's overkill but at least it shouldn't have any issues.

Also on another note. Because I neglected to use screened cables on the X2 I decided not to fit limit switches. Soft limits in Mach3 have worked perfect for it so far. As long as they're set up correctly in relation to the home position and remember to home at the end and beginning of the day it seems to work spot on.