Problems continue and don't know what to do

[Kitwn]

L,
You have my sympathy, it is usually just one minor thing that causes all your problems. Finding it is the nightmare!

One option is to install a new hard drive in the computer and put XP onto that. You might even have one lying around in an old external USB hard drive in back of a cupboard. It's also worth asking around if anyone has a working XP era PC they'd let you have cheap. I did that on my local 'Buy, Sell, Swop' Facebook page a while back and had 2 by tea-time. A hybrid of those is what runs my router now.

Good luck

Kit

[Crazy L]

Cheers Kitwn, Yes, it is my 1st machine and 1st foray into home cnc ( I work on full size Bridgeports using Heidenhain as a day job) but I find it frustrating when I have to put upon others to help me out. A chap on here, Leadhead has offered an XP tower and he is local, so there is that option, and Cropwell here is trying his best to help me out too. Nice to have such a friendly, helpful community.

Rob T, yes, it's a 32 bit system. I changed the printer port to ECP today. I've not checked the voltage of the pci card, but that is what the old tower was using when I bought it, anyway....

After a bit of a fiddle......It still doesn't work, lol but what I have found is.....
1: When go to move z manually with pg up/pg dn keys, the motor makes a whir, but doesn't turn the screw.

2: The same cannot be said for x and y, no noises and no movement, but the readout moves on Mach with all 3 axis when applied.

3: I can't turn spindle on on jog/manual, but it stays on until I hit the machine mounted estop, or hit the reset button on Mach, at which point it comes on again if I hit the reset button again.

I have got somewhere, just not where I want.