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I have an Embroidery program that I have on an old old computer running
Windows 98. My system crashed and I lost the ability to send an embroidery
design from the computer to my sewing machine. The embroiery program is
Wilcom ES 35, and the sewing machine is a Melco EMC-6. They communicate
through a parallel port. I use this computer only for my embroidery program.
Can anyone walk me through this? Also, how can I find what graphics card I
have? Do graphics cards go bad?
Appreciate any help I can get.

Check in the bios setup whether the parallel port is enabled as Enhanced
as a first choice
then reinstall the embroidery program

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I have an Embroidery program that I have on an old old computer running
Windows 98. My system crashed and I lost the ability to send an embroidery
design from the computer to my sewing machine. The embroiery program is
Wilcom ES 35, and the sewing machine is a Melco EMC-6. They communicate
through a parallel port. I use this computer only for my embroidery
program.
Can anyone walk me through this? Also, how can I find what graphics card I
have? Do graphics cards go bad?
Appreciate any help I can get.

" wrote in
message ...
I have an Embroidery program that I have on an old old computer running
Windows 98. My system crashed and I lost the ability to send an embroidery
design from the computer to my sewing machine. The embroiery program is
Wilcom ES 35, and the sewing machine is a Melco EMC-6. They communicate
through a parallel port. I use this computer only for my embroidery
program.
Can anyone walk me through this? Also, how can I find what graphics card I
have? Do graphics cards go bad?
Appreciate any help I can get.



here is a program you can use to determine the hardware in your machine

http://www.hwinfo.com/

If you explain exactly what you mean by "crashed" you will get much better
help than that which would have to be guessed at
from the undefinitve meaning of the word .

" wrote in message
...
I have an Embroidery program that I have on an old old computer running
Windows 98. My system crashed and I lost the ability to send an embroidery
design from the computer to my sewing machine. The embroiery program is
Wilcom ES 35, and the sewing machine is a Melco EMC-6. They communicate
through a parallel port. I use this computer only for my embroidery program.
Can anyone walk me through this? Also, how can I find what graphics card I
have? Do graphics cards go bad?
Appreciate any help I can get.

What happened when it crashed? Crashed how? What did it do, what were you doing,
were there any error messages? What were they exactly?

What happens when you try to send the design to the sewing machine? Do you get an
error? What is the error?

Yes, graphics cards go bad. Why do you ask? What is happening?
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+

Thank you all for your quick response. I did run through the bios setup and
still nothing. I do remember some of the settings that were in different
windows as I would digitize, send design, ect..
I open "hardware setup" window, then choose "options" the card that is
selected is "Multi Port" and it should be "Melnet".
I change it too "melnet" and "reset" but as soon as I close this window it
returns to "multi port".
As for my computer crashing, my hard drive fell off my desk onto a hardwood
floor. Thankfully I was able to retreive everything but my embroidery
program. So I reloaded the program. When I send a design over I used to get
the message "changing to Tajima" and then "sending design" as a result my
sewing machine would run the needles to the starting position. I would
program my design and color sequence and that was it. This is crazy, I have
a nagging feeling this is so simple, but I just can't get it! Everything else
runs great!
Thank you all again for your response.


"AlmostBob" wrote:

Check in the bios setup whether the parallel port is enabled as Enhanced
as a first choice
then reinstall the embroidery program

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Panda online AntiSpyware Scan
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Catalog of removal tools (1)
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Catalog of removal tools (2)
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/n...aspx?CID=40387
Trouble Shooting guide to Windows http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/
Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages before
use
Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters
_
" wrote in
message ...
I have an Embroidery program that I have on an old old computer running
Windows 98. My system crashed and I lost the ability to send an embroidery
design from the computer to my sewing machine. The embroiery program is
Wilcom ES 35, and the sewing machine is a Melco EMC-6. They communicate
through a parallel port. I use this computer only for my embroidery
program.
Can anyone walk me through this? Also, how can I find what graphics card I
have? Do graphics cards go bad?
Appreciate any help I can get.

dumm dumm mmmmmmmm
that was thoughts rolling slowly through the sludge of my mind
Its snowing and that makes me lurgy
do you have 2 cards
melnet & a separate multi-port card

If not you could delete the unused card from systems tab in control panel
reboot and let windows reconfigure itself
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Panda online AntiSpyware Scan
http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/spyware/test/
Catalog of removal tools (1)
http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/
Catalog of removal tools (2)
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/n...aspx?CID=40387
Trouble Shooting guide to Windows http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/
Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages before
use
Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters
_
" wrote in
message ...
Thank you all for your quick response. I did run through the bios setup
and
still nothing. I do remember some of the settings that were in different
windows as I would digitize, send design, ect..
I open "hardware setup" window, then choose "options" the card that is
selected is "Multi Port" and it should be "Melnet".
I change it too "melnet" and "reset" but as soon as I close this window it
returns to "multi port".
As for my computer crashing, my hard drive fell off my desk onto a
hardwood
floor. Thankfully I was able to retreive everything but my embroidery
program. So I reloaded the program. When I send a design over I used to
get
the message "changing to Tajima" and then "sending design" as a result my
sewing machine would run the needles to the starting position. I would
program my design and color sequence and that was it. This is crazy, I
have
a nagging feeling this is so simple, but I just can't get it! Everything
else
runs great!
Thank you all again for your response.


"AlmostBob" wrote:

Check in the bios setup whether the parallel port is enabled as Enhanced
as a first choice
then reinstall the embroidery program

--
-- -- -- -- --
Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de
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AVG free antivirus http://free.grisoft.com/
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Panda online AntiVirus scan http://www.activescan.com
Panda online AntiSpyware Scan
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Catalog of removal tools (1)
http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/
Catalog of removal tools (2)
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/n...aspx?CID=40387
Trouble Shooting guide to Windows http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/
Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages
before
use
Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters
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" wrote
in
message ...
I have an Embroidery program that I have on an old old computer
running
Windows 98. My system crashed and I lost the ability to send an
embroidery
design from the computer to my sewing machine. The embroiery program
is
Wilcom ES 35, and the sewing machine is a Melco EMC-6. They
communicate
through a parallel port. I use this computer only for my embroidery
program.
Can anyone walk me through this? Also, how can I find what graphics
card I
have? Do graphics cards go bad?
Appreciate any help I can get.

Tajima Support And Resources
http://www.tajima-hirsch.com/support_index.cfm
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+


" wrote in message
...
Thank you all for your quick response. I did run through the bios setup and
still nothing. I do remember some of the settings that were in different
windows as I would digitize, send design, ect..
I open "hardware setup" window, then choose "options" the card that is
selected is "Multi Port" and it should be "Melnet".
I change it too "melnet" and "reset" but as soon as I close this window it
returns to "multi port".
As for my computer crashing, my hard drive fell off my desk onto a hardwood
floor. Thankfully I was able to retreive everything but my embroidery
program. So I reloaded the program. When I send a design over I used to get
the message "changing to Tajima" and then "sending design" as a result my
sewing machine would run the needles to the starting position. I would
program my design and color sequence and that was it. This is crazy, I have
a nagging feeling this is so simple, but I just can't get it! Everything else
runs great!
Thank you all again for your response.


"AlmostBob" wrote:

Check in the bios setup whether the parallel port is enabled as Enhanced
as a first choice
then reinstall the embroidery program

--
-- -- -- -- --
Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de
spybot http://www.safer-networking.org
AVG free antivirus http://free.grisoft.com/
Etrust/Vet/CA.online Antivirus scan
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx
Super Antispyware http://www.superantispyware.com/
Panda online AntiVirus scan http://www.activescan.com
Panda online AntiSpyware Scan
http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/spyware/test/
Catalog of removal tools (1)
http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/
Catalog of removal tools (2)
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/n...aspx?CID=40387
Trouble Shooting guide to Windows http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/
Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages before
use
Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters
_
" wrote in
message ...
I have an Embroidery program that I have on an old old computer running
Windows 98. My system crashed and I lost the ability to send an embroidery
design from the computer to my sewing machine. The embroiery program is
Wilcom ES 35, and the sewing machine is a Melco EMC-6. They communicate
through a parallel port. I use this computer only for my embroidery
program.
Can anyone walk me through this? Also, how can I find what graphics card I
have? Do graphics cards go bad?
Appreciate any help I can get.