One of my project cabinets has developed a problem in that it keeps losing the joystick and button controls. It's a very simple 4 way joystick with one action button running through an Ultimarc Minipac.
The cabinet works fine when first booted up. I can access games through the menu using the joystick control and the games all play fine. But if the machine is left to stand for a while then when I come back nothing works. No joystick no buttons, nothing. Even the USB keyboard that is left attached stops working. I cannot Escape or even CTRL-Alt-Delete so I;m forced to hard shut down. Then when I boot up it's all fine again. This is very annoying. Does anyone have any idea what the issue may be? I'm wondering if it's possibly the powered USB that the Minipac and keyboard are running through. But I dunno....
