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Protip: Make your cabinet JAMMA compatible and keep a JAMMA PCB close for these situations. Non-consumer tech seems fail less than our home PCs.  :afro: Or better yet, have more than one cabinet.
Bender:
I shouldn't even post this *knocks on wood*
I built and configured everything, so I've been able to fix any problems that have cropped up, and they do once in a while and it usulally only takes a couple of minutes to fix
Mostly it's been controler configs not being set up right but once the trackball connections came loose after a long bumpy car-ride(I put a little hot glue on the the connectors after that)

But a HD fail and your SOL :'(

M$ pisses me off I'm running XP64 and the clone won't run, cause of some BS protection they have in there and I'm running a legit copy :banghead: :banghead:

DarthMarino:

--- Quote from: drventure on June 06, 2011, 07:40:32 am ---Firing up the cabinet only to find that, for whatever reason, all the usb devices got remapped again, so you're sitting there with people wanting to play while your frantically trying to remap enough keycodes to make at least a few things playable.


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This drives me nuts.  I still can't believe that windows doesn't have a way to manually assign the ID's for these things. 
BadMouth:

--- Quote from: Bender on June 06, 2011, 09:34:53 am ---M$ pisses me off I'm running XP64 and the clone won't run, cause of some BS protection they have in there and I'm running a legit copy :banghead: :banghead:

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That will teach you to install those security updates!
I restored a backup of XP64 to my driving cab last week using Acronis and didn't run into any issues.
The backup wasn't even from the same computer  :lol , but it did have the same model mobo.
(set everything up on a test mule computer so I wouldn't have to sit in the driving cab squinting at s-video text)
Pretty sure it was the lack of doing security updates, but I guess Acronis could have helped.

There is a free version of Acronis available for those not already religously backing up,
but there has to be a Western Digital hard drive connected for it to work.  
(I connect a WD external drive via usb and it works fine)
http://support.wdc.com/product/downloaddetail.asp?swid=119&wdc_lang=en

There is also a version for Seagate/Maxtor drives called Maxblast.

I use both, depending on what's in the computer I'm working on.
The backups will work with all other versions of Acronis.
SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: DarthMarino on June 06, 2011, 09:47:35 am ---
--- Quote from: drventure on June 06, 2011, 07:40:32 am ---Firing up the cabinet only to find that, for whatever reason, all the usb devices got remapped again, so you're sitting there with people wanting to play while your frantically trying to remap enough keycodes to make at least a few things playable.


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This drives me nuts.  I still can't believe that windows doesn't have a way to manually assign the ID's for these things. 

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Because Windows caters to the lowest common denominator, not the highest. Steve Gibson is a choice example of the moronocity (made that word up) prevalent with Windows users. But enough Windows bashing...

Isn't there an app around here that works around that problem?
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