Hello,
I am a student at a high school in North Carolina, doing research for a proposal to get funds to fix our schools CNC Machine. I dont know a lot about it i cant find the model number or anything so finding answers is difficult. Our current set up (that does not work) is a windows 7 computer with the x/y,z/w parallel kind controller cords adapted to fit VGA or Serial ports plugged into the computer. I know that one of the cords is plugged into the motherboard port and the other is plugged into an expansion chip set which is then plugged into the motherboard at this time i plan to add pictures to this post sometime Morrow. My current theory as to why it is not working is that there is some data loss in the adapting from parallel to VGA.

My questions are such, Is this a valid setup for the CNC Machine? Is the problem the computer and do we need to get another one? is there any sort of setup i need to do in the computer?

Thank you