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| Doc Thirst:
Hey everyone, it's been a while but I have an issue that is driving me nuts. I recently replaced my cab computer. Everything moved over fine except my minipac. When I reboot the computer the minipac resets as well. In fact, the control panel does nothing until I start up Winipac (software to program the minipac) and use the program button to flash the minipac, after which it works fine. That is, until I reboot again. This is driving me nuts, but I know there is an easy fix, hell it worked fine on my old PC. I'm connected via USB 1.0 running on Win XP. Let me know if you have any insight. |
| loadman:
--- Quote from: Doc Thirst on December 11, 2006, 04:53:58 pm ---Hey everyone, it's been a while but I have an issue that is driving me nuts. I recently replaced my cab computer. Everything moved over fine except my minipac. When I reboot the computer the minipac resets as well. In fact, the control panel does nothing until I start up Winipac (software to program the minipac) and use the program button to flash the minipac, after which it works fine. That is, until I reboot again. This is driving me nuts, but I know there is an easy fix, hell it worked fine on my old PC. I'm connected via USB 1.0 running on Win XP. Let me know if you have any insight. --- End quote --- Does the Memory the MiniPac hold settings when you de-power it??? I know the I-pac VE does not. If that is the case my best guess is that your old PC had power to the USB ports set to on (like I do) when the PC is in standby , but this new PC does not have that setting on. Depending on the PC this setting can be switched in BIOS or a jumper on the motherboard |
| Turnarcades:
Yeah that sounds exactly what the problem is. If you check the Ultimac website, it says that the USB version is non-programmable, though the PS/2 version is. The PS/2 version will hold any flashed settings correctly, whilst the USB version will lose them the moment power is cut. This is the main reason why I opted for the PS/2 version - besides the lack of USB ports I had available, I preferred my own keyboard/control panel layout for my emulators, as some emulators do not let you use some of the buttons that are defaulted in MAME. If your PC does not support a constant power supply to the USB port, you will either have to put up with it resetting (which will happen if you unplug it too) or sell up and get the PS/2 version, which in my opinion is way better, and shouldn't be a problem for anyone's PC. After all, it's just a 'plug-through' section of a keyboard, so is detected in the same way as a regular PS/2 device. |
| jcrouse:
I think you guys are way off here or are misinterperating something. I did not look at the verbage on the Ultimarc website but am sure the interface, USB or PS2, has nothing to do with the settings being retained. It's simply an interface. Once the data is written to the chip what bearing should the interface have as to wether the data is retained or not? I have 3 mini Ipacs and all three of the and USB and never loose their settings. I know in the past there were some issues with this and I believe, not positive, it was a bad board and Andy from Ultimarc remedied the issues for the users. John |
| Ayrk:
I had that problem. The minipac would only work when I ran the config software. Turns out the issue is a registry one. Basically you need to remove the references in the registry so that the drivers can be restored. I found all of the details to this on the Ultimarc site. I tried to find the exact page but I couldn't. Somewhere on his site is a page with troubleshooting tips and he tells you exactly what registry keys to remove. I followed those instructions and it fixed my problem. |
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