Need some old school Optipac help - serial mouse

[leapinlew]

This is a pic of my Optipac. I'm curious if I'm doing anything wrong. It's a HAPP trackball and the green\yellow cable is the +5v and the blue wire is the ground. I'm using a straight through serial cable. I'm not 100% sure of the jumpers. I'm using Windows 7. The Serial ports are enabled in the BIOS.

I've read some other posts and people are talking about a serial to USB cable.

Anyone see anything obvious?

[BuZz880]

So what's going on?  Not working? Looks about right to me but I do have the serial to USB cable from ultimarc. You might try going into device manager and try to see if the device shows up. Also check ultimarc maybe there's a driver you need. Not sure. Andy at ultimarc will respond if you ask him a question.

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[leapinlew]

It's not working. No X or Y axis and it's not showing up as a mouse device.

I'm pulling my 5V from a switching PSU - not sure if that matters.

[jeremymtc]

Could be a driver problem. I presume that the serial port is on the motherboard... Have you tried updating the chipset drivers from the mobo manufacturer?

[leapinlew]

Could be a driver problem. I presume that the serial port is on the motherboard... Have you tried updating the chipset drivers from the mobo manufacturer?

What I should do is plug in a different serial device, but I'm practically positive it would work. It's one of the basic machines that TKWarrior is selling which is pre-setup. I'm very familiar with driver installation, and device manager shows no errors.

[leapinlew]

For anyone tracking this, I ditched the serial mouse and used a new USB encoder and getting much better response and no backspin issues. I'm sure they could have been overcome using the appropriate cable, settings, etc, but a new encoder was less than $15. I did have to do a little work: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=149845.msg1565206#msg1565206

Overall, totally worth it!