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Title: Need some old school Optipac help - serial mouse
Post by: leapinlew on February 24, 2016, 06:17:35 pm: 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?
Title: Re: Need some old school Optipac help - serial mouse
Post by: BuZz880 on February 25, 2016, 01:17:13 am: 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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Title: Re: Need some old school Optipac help - serial mouse
Post by: leapinlew on February 25, 2016, 02:11:20 am: 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.
Title: Re: Need some old school Optipac help - serial mouse
Post by: jeremymtc on February 25, 2016, 03:45:14 am: 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?
Title: Re: Need some old school Optipac help - serial mouse
Post by: leapinlew on February 25, 2016, 09:27:09 am: Quote from: jeremymtc on February 25, 2016, 03:45:14 am
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.
Title: Re: Need some old school Optipac help - serial mouse
Post by: leapinlew on March 06, 2016, 01:41:48 pm: 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 (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=149845.msg1565206#msg1565206)

Overall, totally worth it!