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Toadie:

I'm sort of puzzled right now, maybe some of you have seen this?

I load up, run Hyperspin, and one of three things happen:

1.  Everything works perfect
2.  The FE will go into attract mode and for some reason my keyboard can't interrupt it.  Almost like the USB keyboard isn't working but the status lights function on and off.
3.  A game will start and either the USB joysticks or buttons will stop working, or come in and out.

Is there a problem with my USB bus or is it not fast enough or  ???

RandyT:


Go into the gaming controls panel and make sure your controls are working there, and use notepad to verify the keyboard is doing what it should.  If it all checks out, there's some kind of software problem.

The general rule is to always check at the desktop to rule out hardware issues and take it from there.

Toadie:

Yeah, I did that and everything seems to be working fine.

Joysticks work in the game control panel
Buttons type out keys on notepad

It's literally like someone is unplugging and plugging the device back in but across multiple devices.  In the background I can hear that "device recognized" beep.  When I exit HS the balloon message is that a USB device malfunctioned.

oh so close lol

RandyT:


--- Quote from: Toadie on December 23, 2013, 01:42:01 pm ---Yeah, I did that and everything seems to be working fine.

Joysticks work in the game control panel
Buttons type out keys on notepad

It's literally like someone is unplugging and plugging the device back in but across multiple devices.  In the background I can hear that "device recognized" beep.  When I exit HS the balloon message is that a USB device malfunctioned.

oh so close lol

--- End quote ---

Ok, then the first thing I would ask at this point is how many and what type of devices you have on that particular USB port, and whether the FE activates any of them which are not active at the desktop.  In particular, any lighting controllers or similar devices which start pulling more current when activated by the FE.

Toadie:

Well I think it's all the same bus so I don't think the order matters but if it does let me know and I can tell you exact ports.  Here's all of them

Keyboard - plugged into the CPU
Mouse - Plugged into the keyboard - never seems to have an issue
LEDWIZ
2P iPac
Joystick 1 - ultrimarc 360
Joystick 2 - ultirmard 360
Trackball
Turbo Twist Spinner
External Harddrive - never seems to have an issue


One thought I had and I'm not sure if it holds any water is would rapid button fire going through the iPac flood or confuse the USB communications?

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