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| ghettodish:
check my link below for my control panels and joysticks. No coin counter, no coin mechs. All my joy switches and buttons are double-grounded to the interface: ground wire goes from GND to all button/switch grounds and back to the 2nd GND. I know everything is wired right. I re-wired everything while waiting for my GPWiz40s to show up (I switched from CAT5 setup to DSub25) and still ended up with the same issues. It's not my USB hub, I switched that, too. Anyone ever get a bad shock while wiping the monitor? Actually, I think it may be a problem with the computer itself...It's the only thing I haven't changed. |
| SavannahLion:
Hhmm.... Could be a couple of things. A static shock from a monitor isn't too big a deal. I've received some pretty nasty ones that are just nothing more than bad hair days. I know you said the outlet is properly grounded, but is the ground circuit complete? Check your grounds all the way through and make sure the appropriate grounded points are actually grounded and not floating. That means checking all your power connections, check the power strip, check your USB cable, so on and so forth. I'm out of ideas actually.... Maybe the wiring or the switch is defective? Seems bizarre that it's the Joy1 Left that fails. Did you try physically swapping Joy1 with Joy2 to see if the problem follows Joy1 or stays the same on the GPWiz? Or try putting new cherries in there. Maybe it's a software issue? Hokey install or driver or whatever interfering with the GPWiz inputs. Did you try a different PC? |
| CheffoJeffo:
Was it a static shock or is the monitor chassis perhaps hot ? |
| ghettodish:
This time Joy1 Left is stuck in the ON position. My control panels are swappable and I get the same result with whatever one is plugged in, so I know it's not a bad switch. This problem did not happen after doing anything weird. It worked fine for a few days with the same panel attached. It just stopped working one morning after turning the whole system on. This weekend I'll try and bypass my quick-connect setup and directly wire in a button to Joy1 Left....and ground everything to the PC case, any every other suggestion everyone gave, although I'll have to do some reading on "hot" monitor chassis. PC swap will be my last resort. Oh, another thing..My cabinet had a TV in when my first 2 interfaces died. 3rd one died with the monitor installed...I don't think they were the cause. I've narrowed it down to two problem a) bizarre static problem, or b) bad PC. I don't want to think about c)... |
| RandyT:
Are your joysticks powered or the normal switch type? Has it ever happened *before* the panel was ever swapped? BTW, static is rough this time of year. Cold weather takes the moisture out if the air and static can get bad. Make sure the PC has a properly grounded outlet, and make sure that there is a physical connection from your panels to the chassis of your computer. But I'm leaning in the direction of a deeper issue here, and the more info you provide about your setup, the more likely it is that a connection can be found. RandyT |
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