It's obvious many people don't use the Mach3 anymore since there has not been any posting here in a long while. I hope someone still knows how to use it since I don't get it to control the Easy CNC board. In the Mach screen, the led next to the reset button flashes all the time and I can't get it to stop even when I press the 'reset' button. I've checked the port settings in Mack3 and it says for LTP1 '0x378'. In the BIOS it calls for 378H and in the Devise Manager it says it is set to 0378. I tried to change it in Mach but it reverts to the default all the time. Also, In the BIOS it is set to 'ECP' and there is no IRQ settings.

 

You know, rcav8r, I was just getting to my computer to check the Mach3 website when I saw your post. I was going to look up the 'driver test' and I think that that is what you meant too. I just remembered reading a long time ago that you have to do it first but it is not mentioned in the Mack set up with the DVD and I just forgot about it. I'll do the check now and we'll see if that was the problem.

 

It was the E-Stop pin. It was set and I couldn't shut it off. I had to disable it. Once I'll get the machine running I'll enable it again.

 

In Mack3 pin #10 is assigned for the E-Stop by default and is active. For some reason it got a signal from the board, I think that that is what happened, that the E-Stop was pressed. Since I didn't know how to tell it it's not pressed, I just disabled that setup. Now Mach3 works. After all the calibrations, and so forth, are done I'll look into activating an E-Stop. Right now I still have to figure out how to get an axis go into the other direction after a limit switch was triggered.