[simonfisher]

Hey Everyone!

I'm looking for advice or pointed in the right direction. I'm a newbie to CNC, but I really want to learn, so I recently bought a 2012ish Velox VR-5050 CNC Router from the company I work for. It has been sitting for the past few years and when I powered it on & tried to jog it nothing happened. It's an older parallel port setup and on the back of the control box shows green lights lit next to the Estop, A Axis & parallel port, but no lights lit next to the X, Y & Z axis. I've attached some pics. It's 3 axis with 4 motors.
Velox said the breakout board &/or the drivers probably need replacing, but they've been a bit unresponsive since their quote...

So anyway my question is:

1. Is now a good opportunity to upgrade to a 4axis USB or Ethernet motion controller?
2. Is that even possible with a bit of rewiring?
3. Would an Azteeg X5 GT 32bit Motion Controller with Bigfoot BSD2660 SPI drivers do the trick? https://www.panucatt.com/mobile/prod...r_p/ax5gt.htm=

Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks!! Sorry for the long message