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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: DennisInMN on January 21, 2010, 02:57:19 pm
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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.
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The only thing left to try is to use the WINIPAC utilty and try flashing it. If that fails she's toast.
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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.
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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 (http://www.ultimarc.com/ipac2.html)
Hope this helped.
DeLuSioNaL29