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Thanks

while im at it, every time I start RH I lse my com port and it resorts back to virtual port. any solution for that?

where did the answer go???

im freegin lost lol but not so lol

I just simply have no idea what you are talking about.

ahead of time, I great apologize if any of this sounds like im being a dick, im really not lol

and I apologize for all the typos. that's what happens when I get frustrated lol

No worries plus the WIKI is back up so most of what you need can be found there.
Your virtual printer issue sounds a little buggy what version of RH are you running?
And yeah your screens will be different than mine as those pictures are old but still do the same things.

Try RH V 0.95f I am guessing that it switching back to virtual printer is a bug.
Also what version of Slic3r are you using?

I understand and am asking you to be patient and let us help you.  Every software used is third party not something SD created.  So go to help in RH and click update or just go to the RH website and find version 95f it is similar enough to the one you have.  Then open Slic3r and do the same thing and update to 1.1.7
This important and will help you a lot.
Then all you do is direct RH to the new version of Slic3r.  We can get screen shots for you if needed.
I promise that if you follow the advice of the users here you will print successfully.  We all know how frustrating it can be but your hard work will pay off.

Just a quick note on this;

if he tries to update directly from RH, he will more than likely get V1.0.6 - same version I have. It seems to be pretty stable tho, I havent encountered any major issues with it, other than the old XP computer I am running it on doesnt have enough graphics resources to run the the filament visualizations while printing - solved simply by toggling the "eye" off

@ cf.noja47 - sit back, take a deep breath and let it out slowly - it will be ok. (and dont feel bad)

to get to the EEPROM screen:

at the top of RH click "Config" then select the "Marlin Firmware EEPROM Settings" - should be about the middle of the list.

If it is greyed out, and you cant actually click on it, there is a shortcut listed next to it - "Alt + E", i think...use that to open the settings screen - I had to use the shortcut the first time I tried to open it, since then it has been available to click on.

the one you want to change is the one that wardjr has highlighted in his screenshot above - top row, far right - it will probably read 138, change it to what was suggested (105) and click "Save to EEPROM"

If for some reason it doesnt work, or you get an error - dont panic. There is another way to change it.
I had a problem trying to change things directly in that screen for some reason, no idea why, so I only use it now to verify things were changed...

Disconnect RH, close it, then re-open and re-connect to clear out any errors.

The alternate method to change the steps/mm for the extruder is to type the following code in the G-Code box at the top of the manual tab in RH

M92 E105 <enter>
then
M500 <enter> to save it

You can then open the firmware settings screen to verify that the change has been made and saved.