How to tell if I fried my IPAC

[DennisInMN]

I just updated my MAME PC and my control panel isn't registering on my PC.  I even hooked up a keyboard to the pass-through and got nothing from that either.  I took my CP off my cab and hooked it up to my main PC and I got the same results.  A few weeks ago I had hooked my CP up to my main PC to play some games and check out some front ends, so I know my CP was working.  I opened up notepad and pressed buttons/joystick and I get nothing now.  How can I tell if my IPAC is fried?

Not sure if it is related, but it might be.  I just hooked up my trackball, 5 yrs after I created my cab.  I have a Happ trackball and an old serial Optipac.  I found that I needed to run 5V power from my PC to the Optipac, so I did that.  Like I said, not sure if this has anything to do with my IPAC issue but since my CP was working a few weeks ago and I haven't done anything to it since then I wonder if hooking up the trackball did something to it.

Thanks.

[Deadly]

The only thing left to try is to use the WINIPAC utilty and try flashing it. If that fails she's toast.

[DennisInMN]

I'll try that later tonight.  Also, I was thinking I should try another ps/2 cable to connect it to the PC.  I'll have to dig around and see if I can find one.

[DeLuSioNal29]

Does the ipac's LED light up when you have it plugged in and turn it on?  It has a self-test LED that does certain things so you can determine what's wrong.

Read more here (under the "Troubleshooting using the I-PAC Self-Test LED section"):
http://www.ultimarc.com/ipac2.html

Hope this helped.

DeLuSioNaL29