Ipac 4 sticking on startup?

[Peja]

Hey there everyone.  I have a random question regarding my setup. 

When I start up the computer whether it is a restart or a fresh start, as soon as my computer gets to the desktop I hear the windows "ding".  What this means is my "keyboard" is being pressed.  When I navigate my mouse to the start button, within the search bar (windows 7) I see characters filling up the search box.  It isn't always the same characters but they will look like jk,l9 jk,l9 jk,l9 ....etc etc.  So I can hit any of the buttons on the control panel, (I usually mash down the 1 players 6 buttons) and it stops.

So it seems like the ipac is sticking somehow and thinks buttons are being pushed when they aren't. 

I am using an ipac4, ultimarc gold leaf buttons, windows 7 64bit, 2 u360(usb) and 2 joysticks that I can't remember the name of from my Soul Calibur 2 arcade conversion. 

My ipac, joysticks, and trackball, are all connected using a 4 to 1 usb hub if that matters. 


Thanks for any help you can give me on this.  I want to finally get this setup properly so I can launch directly into Hyperspin.  Unfortunately, I can't because of the dinging right away. 

Peja

[konp]

Check your button wiring. My guess is you've got some buttons you wired as NC instead of NO. On a standard microswitch you need to use the "bottom" terminal (when the panel is oriented correctly - the one furthest away from the button, basically) and the center terminal.

[Peja]

Reading up on it before I posted this, I thought the same thing briefly but then I remembered my buttons are gold leaf buttons from ultimarc that only have 2 terminals on them.  So that rules that out unfortunately, unless I am doing something wrong with those buttons.

Thanks for the response.

Peja

[PL1]

So I can hit any of the buttons on the control panel, (I usually mash down the 1 players 6 buttons) and it stops.

Check your button wiring. My guess is you've got some buttons you wired as NC instead of NO. On a standard microswitch you need to use the "bottom" terminal (when the panel is oriented correctly - the one furthest away from the button, basically) and the center terminal.

Even if he had wired a regular 3-tab microswitch wrong, it wouldn't stop when he hits a button.

Does the IPac do the same thing when:

1. Plugged directly into a USB port on the motherboard? or

2. Plugged into a laptop/other computer?


Scott

[Peja]

So I can hit any of the buttons on the control panel, (I usually mash down the 1 players 6 buttons) and it stops.

Check your button wiring. My guess is you've got some buttons you wired as NC instead of NO. On a standard microswitch you need to use the "bottom" terminal (when the panel is oriented correctly - the one furthest away from the button, basically) and the center terminal.

Even if he had wired a regular 3-tab microswitch wrong, it wouldn't stop when he hits a button.

Does the IPac do the same thing when:

1. Plugged directly into a USB port on the motherboard? or

2. Plugged into a laptop/other computer?


Scott

Those are great questions and I will test it out as soon as I get home.  If not, I have extra long usb extenders that it looks like I will be using.

Thanks PL1.

[Peja]

Not sure what is going on with my computer now but it isn't playing nice right now.  I tried running the usb cables individually and now my device manager keeps refreshing and playing the tone it does whenever you connect a new peripheral. 

It seems to be just the U360's that are causing it.  My ipac4 and trackball don't seem to do it. 

Also, my ipac 4 is still sticking when running it direct.  Here is what the start bar will look like when it happens.  It isn't every time.....just random and about 50% of the time.  It happens if the u360s are connected and if they aren't. 




And on my Win 7 startup.  I get the boot manager about 75% of the time.  Except there is no countdown clock.  So I have to hit enter every time.  Kind of sucks to have a keyboard connected at all times.  Changing the time in msconfig doesn't do anything either.  It's this screen except for its Win7 not Vista.  And there is only one option in there.....Win7 since that is the only OS I have had installed on that drive.





I don't want to do a clean format and install but will if that is what I need to do.  It just sucks reinstalling all of the emulators, led blinky, hypserspin, etc etc.  If there is any easy way to do that, I would be open to it but not sure if there is.

Thanks for any other help you can give me.

Peaj

[Peja]

Update:

Not sure if it is completely fixed yet but I ended up seeing an unknown device in the device manager called coprocessor.  A little google search showed me this is related to the nvidia chipset driver.  I found the driver, installed it, and the unknown device went away. 

I then plugged in all of my usb devices and none of them caused the device manager to keep refreshing.  I also restarted my computer 5 times with the the ipac working just fine.  No repeat characters.  My boot manager screen also didn't pop up. 

I will have to restart about 10 more times though to really get an idea if it is fixed.  Sometimes it does it and sometimes it doesn't. 

Hopefully all of this is due to a simple chipset driver becoming uninstalled somehow. 

Thanks,
Peja