U360 not installing in Windows

[Lakersfan]

I have 2 U360's that I have owned for quite sometime now. I recently reformatted my arcade with Tiny XP SP3. Now, for whatever reason, I cannot get one of them to work at all. I've tried verifying that they both weren't the same ID and changing the ID's around to see if it helped. For some reason, only the one works. In Device Manager, it has the yellow exclamation mark and it won't install drivers for it. (However the other one is working). I've tried to uninstall/reinstall the drivers and nothin'. I also updated the firmware on it to 2.5. I can tell you that when it is plugged in, the light on the U360 lights up so it is getting power.

Am I missing anything? Any ideas?

Thanks

[LeedsFan]

Try a powered USB hub. I have had issues where the USB ports just don't give enough power to the U360s. Sometimes you get away with it, sometimes you don't.

[Lakersfan]

The controller's USB is plugged directly into the motherboard. It may need more power than that?

[LeedsFan]

The controller's USB is plugged directly into the motherboard. It may need more power than that?

I've had three different U360s and I had to use a powered USB hub each time. One project was a laptop and while I could get one U360 to work perfectly the second simply did not want to know. (Both were plugged directly into their own individual USB ports on the laptop). A powered USB hub solved all the problems.

The third U360 was a single joystick plugged into an Intel Atom 330 Mini-ITX board. Again I needed a powered hub to make it work correctly. It was registering in Windows but as soon as Mala and Mame started the stick didn't work. All the software was configured correctly. Again as soon as I tried a powered hub (in fact the same hub that was on the lappy) it all worked seamlessly. I immediately went out and bought a second hub to get both projects working 100%.

I believe 500mA is the maximum a USB port will give out. And it seems the U360 is right on the borderline of needing this much power. Some people report no problems. Maybe it was the older PC hardware I was using that perhaps was underpowering my USB ports? 

The U360s are the best "all round" sticks you can get in all honesty. Buying powered hubs isn't a deal breaker for me.

I'd try and borrow one from somewhere if you don't have one already just in case it doesn't solve the issue. I'm guessing at the powered hub solution because of my experiences.

[Lakersfan]

Thanks man. I don't have one handy, but I imagine they aren't that expensive. Maybe I'll hit up Staples today. I'll report back!

[AndyWarne]

The U360s dont need anything close to 500mA. The powered hub is a workaround, I suspect the firmware needs to be upgraded if they are older U360s.

Andy

[Lakersfan]

Hey guys,
They are older U360's (purchased a few years ago). They are both upgraded to the latest firmware (2.5). Luckily, the workaround worked and the powered hub seems to have fixed the problem. 
Thank you LeedsFan.