Ipac4 issues

[negsense]

I just finished wiring up my ipac4 into my cabinet and fired it up. Everything looked great until I realized for some reason when I pressed 1p coin, the Ipac outputs both keys 1 & 5. There were a ton of other problems too with buttons not working and joystick switches. Since it was my first time wiring something I decided to get each key working one by one until I figured out the problem. After disconnecting everything but the 1p coin button, I only grounded one key and hooked up ground and 1p coin. When I press the button I either get nothing or a string of 1 and 5 together, like 5 is being held down and 1 is being pressed every once in a while. Again, this is the only key hooked up, there are no other wires going into my ipac.

I also thought it might be driver issues, so I tried it on a second machine and got the same result. Details are:

ipac 4
OS: XP for cabinet and Windows 7 machine for verification

Any suggestion would be appreciated.

[sandheaver]

Make sure that you're wiring up the correct terminals on the buttons.

This kind of thing happens all the time when you wire up the microswitches wrong. 

http://arcadecontrols.com/images/microswitch_closeup_labelled2.JPG

In that image it is the bottom two terminals that you must wire up.  IGNORE the top one.  It does not matter which you wire as ground.

[negsense]

Just took a look and I had the ground on COMMON and the wire to the ipac on NO. This is what I used to wire up the buttons:

http://www.arcadecab.com/CabinetPlans2/CabinetPlans2_Wiring_CP.html

So when I take out the switch and just press the wire to the ground on the ipac and I get both 1's and 5's. I also get 2 letters at a time on player 3 up. The reason I thought I tried it that was is I thought the point of the switch was to connect the wire coming out of the ipac to the ground making the circuit complete.

[Dekieon]

I would download the ipac software and reset the ipac, and see if it is still happening

[negsense]

I tried that, the first time it failed, I restarted and reinstalled the ipac software and tried to reset it, did not help.

[Dekieon]

I am assumeing that you have tried it with notepad, and that is where you are seeing the 5's and 1's?

Try a different USB port.
Disconnect the keyboard if there is one attached.
Is the ipac connected to the pc directly or to a hub? If it is connected to a hub, try connecting to the pc directly.

[negsense]

Connected straight to the USB port, tried it on two different PCs. Yeah, the output is from Notepad. Is there any way to flash the firmware?

[Dekieon]

Possibly, I am not sure though. I would contact Andy and see what he says about it.

[kahlid74]

When you tried to reset it did you note which port it was set to in the menu?  If you set it to PS2 and the IPac is plugged into USB it will error.  I had a problem similar to this until I changed it to the correct port, reset and then it was all gravy.

[negsense]

Checked to make sure it was USB and not PS2. Andy answered my email really quickly and he's helping me with it.