Mark, I'm checking on this for you... Anthony

Start with the driver. If that fails, get a diagnostics tool from the device mfg. It is possible that something happened to the physical device when it was disconnected. (Shouldn't be the case, but we're talking about hardware so Murphy's Law applies.) Poor cable placement/routing may cause errors / data loss on transfers but should seldom cause an OS or program crash. However, if the device sees something strange (noise?) and the device driver or firmware can't handle it, it could cause a device driver related crash. So, you're back to the device driver or damaged hardware either way. Let us know what you find.

We have been recommending the USB Gear USB RS232 Adapters for the past five years (or more) and have never had anyone call back with a problem. The units are $19.99 each and we have never had a problem with them being out of stock. In fact, we used to stock them ourselves but we couldn't keep enough around between people calling and our own service guys selling them to customers out of their toolkits... Here's more info: USBG-232 - I personally use this unit for my HP 9440 (with no serial ports) and it works great. This is the same unit our service guys have been recommending after wading through all the "less than functional units" (names omitted to protect the guilty). Here is an entire page about drivers and lists many different units - USB Gear 232 Adapter Info Page. MOXA and Quatech also have great units, but for single port adapters the USB Gear units can not be beat. HTH,

If you are looking for verification software you need to check out CGTech's Vericut and Predator's Virtual CNC. Both do 5x. We ( CIMCO ) do support 4x/5x with our wireframe backplotter in Edit 5. However, you would need to d/l and try it out for your machine/control type to see if it is supported. Not a substitution for true 5x verification, but worth checking out. Good luck.

FYI - HP offers the nw9440 with XP Pro. You can read more about it here. I know a few people using this laptop and love it. Here is another link with some featured models. Hope this helps...

If you haven't resolved your problem I would recommend contacting the folks at In-House. They have three DNC experts on staff that should be able to get you going quickly. In-House tel: 519-658-1471

Side note... in case you haven't solved the problem please search back through this forum for posts on USB to Serial Converters that have been proven to work well for DNC transfers.

As part of your search you should give the guys at Services Four Automation a call. They are experts in CNC communications / DNC networks - both wired and wireless. Services Four Automation (798) 728-0009 - ask for Frank, Steve, or Doug PS - In a previous post the major DNC players were listed... Past Post on DNC Vendors

David, you have mail.

Looking at the possible error in the link you posted in the message above. Thanks!

Ah, thanks. RE: Mail... I had to go out of town last week and thought I would be clever and purchase the new Cingular Mobile PC card for my laptop. After following instructions and rebooting my PC was pretty much toast. Anyhow, I'm going back to look through my messages (all 300+ non-junk messages, 1100 junk message deleted) and see if I can find your email. If you could resend it real quick that would help too. I'll get back to you asap. Btw, thanks for the link. Dev is looking at it now.

Opps... we'll fix this over the weekend. Look for 5.10.92 on Monday - cimco-software.com > Downloads.

quote: quote: Besides communications, what does Cimco have that you can't live without? Here are a few. File save as shows a blank, not the previous file name. Does not show the total number of lines in the file. Undo does not work after you save the file. Does not retain previous files list. Does not retain previous searches. File compare from the editor does not work and does not compare files currently loaded in the editor, you have to go hunt them down. File compare does not show line numbers, does not allow editting. Interesting. Glenn, are you saying these are things do "not" work in CIMCO Edit?

Very cool Serge. I am glad to see you guys are offering this service!

Quick note... Earlier versions of CIMCO Edit distributed with pre-V9 MC versions authorized users to copy a license to another PC. With V9 users were required to have a valid MC HASP on their PC to run CIMCO Edit. Copying CIMCO Edit OEM to another PC was no longer possible. However, we did run a promo so users could purchase an upgrade to the full license of Edit 4 at a discounted price. When X was released it no longer included an OEM version of CIMCO Edit. We offered another upgrade promo on (this time on Edit 5) that ran for about six months - we even advertised it on eMastercam for at least three months. We are currently running a another promo on Edit 5 in North America that ends March 1 (2007). Please contact Lisa at In-House and she can get you a quote on a full license. In anticipation of more questions, if you are interested in finding out about the promo in North America please contact your MC Reseller. If they don't know about it, have them contact us.