osrbikes 0 Posted May 28, 2008 Just purchased a US Cutter LP36-- got it in yesterday and was all pumped to start cutting-- WRONG I could not believe what little instructions came with the unit-- no stand assembly instructions, no blade installation -- pretty much nothing. I tried to use my laptop and USB drive to connect to the cutter-- i put one blank disc that came with it in and it had drivers on it-- I plugged the USB cord in the cutter then in the cpu-- almost right away I got a blue screen and it said the cpu was preparing to shut down and something about a dump-- cpu works perfect until the usb is plugged in. I jumped on here for a few minutes and read that I should use the serial cable-- well my laptop doesn't have a connection for that serial cable-- I'm not the smartest guy with cpus so I'm not sure do they make a 9 pin-25 pin adapter and if so can I use that??? Please help[ I just want to cut stuckers. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
osrbikes 0 Posted May 28, 2008 SOrry its a 15 pin port on my computer and I need to connect to the 9 pin port on the cutter. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dbohemian 0 Posted May 28, 2008 I have a lot of experience with NC equipment (a plotter is just a simple 2 axis NC) and inevitably laptops have issues. Even when they have serial ports (older ones) I have had about a 50% success rate with them. Your experience is 100% opposite of mine. Desktop, plugged in to serial, loaded software and boom, cutting. I would first, find a desktop, it does not need to be fancy, can build a new one for 300 or use a buddies spare. Keep this computer for dedicated cutting. Blade installation and setting instructions are on this forum. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
osrbikes 0 Posted May 28, 2008 My laptop is a new dell xps1210-- less than a year old-- will it not work-- don't feel like getting another cpu and don't really have much space to work with. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dbohemian 0 Posted May 28, 2008 It should work....I don't know why you got the error you did when plugging in your USB. It's just that I have found and spent many an hour messing with laptop serial ports (or lack thereof) and then a small inexpensive desktop worked perfectly. I would not give up on it but if you can test it with a desktop and serial, it may be helpful. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
