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I have a G540 that I am trying to run in Mach3.

I wired the X axis and installed required resistor and was able to jog everything fine. After wiring and plugging in the the second motor I started getting a Limit Switch Fault, no motor response and my mouse now freezes up when the motor is plugged in. At this point none of the 3 motors on my mill will work, though when I wired a 4th (loose) stepper of a different size with no resistor it would jog.

-The Coolant Pump is switched off.
-The Bios Parrallel Port has been set to EPP
-There are no limit switches plugged in
-I tested the motor wiring by confirming that the stepper motors will jog when plugged into a $40 TB6560 ebay board
-I've disabled the input pins in the motor configurations
-I'm using a Straight Through DB25 cable

I'm having trouble finding a solution in either the artsoft mach3 support or cnczone forums. I see others have had similar Limit Swith Faults, but the solutions as detailed above haven't worked.

Any suggestions?

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I am now able to jog all 3 axis of my mill (Sherline). But... when I put a G01 move into MDI it will only move if the command is positive, and then moves without stopping. In other words, I'll enter a G01 X0.05 command and it will travel for a few inches until I finally hit the e-stop or reset button. I am using the Gecko G540 configuration file. What am I missing here? Getting a G540 was supposed to make things easy??