"Pete C." wrote in message
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Bob La Londe wrote:

"Bob La Londe" wrote in message
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I have not fired up my mini mill for a couple weeks, but I need to
engrave
some replacement number chips for a club I help run. Anyway, turned
ont
he PC and started my controller the other day, and I have been dinking
with it off and on for about a week now.

Nothign seems to be wrong with the PC. All other software works.
AVAST
says it has a clean bill of health. Memory tests are ok, but when I
start
Mach 3 the PC reboots. Not always instantly, but everytime.

Following diagnostics were done.

Memory test
Re-install Mach 3
Install latest version of Mach 3
Unplug controller from LPT port
Start Mach 3 with different setup file.

Still crashes. I can run multiple other aps... no crash.

HELP!!!

I just do not get it unless my parallel port is just plain damaged and
causing the problem with the driver.

I nuked the machine and started from scratch.
Memory tested,
New hard drive, (found nothing wrong with the old one but just in case)
Fresh installation of Windows,
Clean fresh installation of Mach 3

Everything seems to work just fine and then when I start Mach 3 the
system
reboots. GRRRRRRR!!!!!!!



That really sounds like something messed up in the BIOS settings, since
that's the only thing that may not be refreshed.

I could not find anything in the bios. Tried reset to defaults (the way it
was working before). Tried ECP, tried bi-directional, tried output only,
even tried turning the parallel port off. Under any circumstance the darn
machine would reboot after I started Mach 3. The desktop I use for my
accounting is the same identical machine, and it runs Mach 3 just fine. The
other machine ran it for nearly a year then kaput.

I gave up and, I am setting up another machine clean and fresh right now. A
little newer machine with brand new (and more) memory and drive.

I have a buddy who gives PCs to chidren of disadvantaged families around
Christmas time every year. I'll just give him the machine. It seems to run
all other aps just fine. I run both Ubuntu Linux and Windows XP
applications, and I loaded every application on the machine and it didn't
crash either in Linux mode or Windows mode. Just with the Mach 3 under
Windows. Grrrrrr......