I am running Mach3 from a laptop with 64-bit Windows 7 and a Smoothstepper. Everything runs just fine. BUT...
I am trying to install Mach3 on another dedicated 64-bit machine. I have loaded the Smoothstepper driver and the computer sees the Smoothstepper through the device management window. When I try to install Mach3, I get the dreaded "No Driver sensed Installed" message, which I go past because there is obviously no parallel port and I'm using a Smoothstepper. When I try to start Mach with the normal Smoothstepper plugin, and fresh XML (not configured for the machine, just default), I get the window to select the plugin, but it then hangs when I select it. When I move over my XML and screen sets from the other computer, it just hangs on startup, period. I'm taking a guess that there's some issue talking to the Smoothstepper. Any other ideas? What differences should I look at between the 2 computers to figure out what's hanging?