Re: Mach 3 Crashing PC

On 2009-07-22, Bob La Londe <nospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Pete C." <aux3.DOH.4@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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......

Did you bother testing whether the parallel port worked with a
printer? I did not hear any such tests, and since this is an
application which depends upon the printer port, it makes sense to first
test it with a printer to see if that hardware is working.

Hmm ... for that matter -- is it already configured to serve a
printer? You might have to go in and unload the printer driver before
you can get it to work with the Mach-3 drivers.

Good Luck,
DoN.

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