Finally got back round to Dads to try out the suggestions: It turns out that it was indeed the 9600 baud setting after all. 2400 baud works fine in a vanilla DOS environment. I'll see how it goes getting things working in Win2k after Dads got his jobs out of the way ;) Many thanks for your help on t...

Excellent thank you Mr Magoo, I'll give that a go and see if it helps.

Is there any chance you can post or PM me the contents of your config.sys and autoexec.bat files as they will tell me the answers to the other questions too?

Appreciate your help on this, thanks.

Just to post a bit of an update and ask for more assistance...... I did a vanilla dos 6.22 install just to test that all was well with the comms between PC and Starturn and no joy. Still can't seem to detect the machine or at least the software dumps out exactly as stated in original post. Continuit...

Many thanks for your responses, that's great. I'll try a vanilla Dos install first to ensure we have no comms problems and go from there. If I get it all working I'll post a guide :) I have a model number for the lathe now which is a Starturn 8 and this brings me onto another couple of questions. Is...

Hi I'm trying to set up the Starturn software on a Windows 2000 pro box to control a Denford Lathe. I'm not sure of exact model but I can find out if necessary. I just need some general setup guidance at this stage as I am working blind without manuals. Does anyone have a setup guide for the startur...