Installing trackIR in XPpro

[Vegas]

Ok, don't want to sound overly optimistic, but on another board (Frugal's world) where he had done a review of the trackir, I asked if he had any ideas. He said there should be a exusbw2k.inf file in your Windows INF folder and maybe by pointing the install to that file it would work. Sounds like a plan, but I have no such file and asked him to forward it to me. If he does, I'll give it a shot and let you know.

Knew I shouldn't have been optimistic! I haven't received the file yet, but I installed the trackir on another computer (WinME) and it worked fine. There was no .inf file in it, or anyplace else on my computer. I don't know if you have to install on WinXP to have the software install this .inf or it's not the correct .inf.

HEY trackir people... how about posting some info on this problem? Like you are aware of it, working on it, or at least "tough nuts, you guys are stuck"???

[ September 19, 2003, 10:32 AM: Message edited by: Vegas ]

[Vegas]

Ok got it working under WinXP, however, it went the HARD way. I tried to add a bootable partition with Partionmagic... well, it was "magic" alright! It hung halfway thru and after doing a reboot, I had no operating system AT ALL! During the reinstall, I noticed that my motherboard, although supporting USB 2.0, didn't have the correct drivers/whatever, so I did that. After that, I installed trackir and it works! Doubt this will be much help to you all who were hoping for a quick fix (as was I), but I thought I would pass it on.

[ September 19, 2003, 04:08 PM: Message edited by: Vegas ]

[snake122]

So how can I disable USB 2.0 to see if this is the problem?

[Vegas]

Actually Snake, what I did was enable the 2.0 drivers, not disable them, so I have no idea. Maybe it was a fluke on the reinstall, I dunno, but playing around with this thing in IL2 FB is a blast (but it does take a lot of adjusting to as well). Hope you get it working.

[snake122]

quote:Originally posted by Vegas:
Actually Snake, what I did was enable the 2.0 drivers, not disable them, so I have no idea. Maybe it was a fluke on the reinstall, I dunno, but playing around with this thing in IL2 FB is a blast (but it does take a lot of adjusting to as well). Hope you get it working.Yeah I don't think that's it either now, I shut off my USB 2.0 in my bios and it didn't fix it. It's frustrating that it works on my 1.3 Celeron/Via/XP system but not the 2.6/Intel/XP system.

[PeteThomas]

I'm having the old XP installation problems, Discovers that a USB device is attached (doesn't state what it is, similar to Snake's issues by the look of it).

The Found new hardware wizard finishes with "Cannot Install this hardware", the HW was not installed beciase the wizard cannot find the necessary software.

I did install the SW before plugging the device in.

I'm also running Simkits, and Goflight modules on the same computer. Unplugged them to reduce the likelihood of conflicts.

TrackIR is directly plugged into the PC. Running a P1.4.

I'm off to find which MB I've got in the system, its been a while since I've had to worry about that...

Any clues pointers or log files I should be looking at?

Ta

Peter

[PeteThomas]

Should add, I've tried both the drivers that came with the device and the 2.12 beta.

[PeteThomas]

One thing of interest I did find while poking around was a file called setupapi.log under c:\windows.
It provided the following, so it looks like the file isn't being copied or registered?

[SetupAPI Log]
OS Version = 5.1.2600 Service Pack 1
Platform ID = 2 (NT)
Service Pack = 1.0
Suite = 0x0100
Product Type = 1
Architecture = x86
[2003/09/21 13:55:29 436.3 Driver Install]
#-019 Searching for hardware ID(s): usb\vid_0547&pid_0080&rev_0001,usb\vid_0547&pid_0080
#-018 Searching for compatible ID(s): usb\class_ff&subclass_ff&prot_ff,usb\class_ff&subclass_ff,usb\class_ff
#-198 Command line processed: C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
#I393 Modified INF cache "C:\WINDOWS\inf\INFCACHE.1".
#-166 Device install function: DIF_SELECTBESTCOMPATDRV.
#W059 Selecting best compatible driver failed. Error 0xe0000228: There are no compatible drivers for this device.
#W157 Default installer failed. Error 0xe0000228: There are no compatible drivers for this device.
[2003/09/21 13:55:31 1924.2]
#-199 Executing "C:\WINDOWS\system32\rundll32.exe" with command line: rundll32.exe newdev.dll,ClientSideInstall \\.\pipe\PNP_Device_Install_Pipe_0.{314E7C45-7B70-46B6-B3DE-7FD98B3B8254}
#I060 Set selected driver.
#-019 Searching for hardware ID(s): usb\vid_0547&pid_0080&rev_0001,usb\vid_0547&pid_0080
#-018 Searching for compatible ID(s): usb\class_ff&subclass_ff&prot_ff,usb\class_ff&subclass_ff,usb\class_ff
#-166 Device install function: DIF_SELECTBESTCOMPATDRV.
#W059 Selecting best compatible driver failed. Error 0xe0000228: There are no compatible drivers for this device.
#W157 Default installer failed. Error 0xe0000228: There are no compatible drivers for this device.

[PeteThomas]

Gave up on trying to find the 'right' answer. Formatted disk and reinstalled XP, and can now see TrackIR. Must be a exception than either XP and the USB driver aren't handing nicely.

[Vegas]

Yep, the good ol' reformat/reinstall scenario... amazing how that "fixes" the problem (thanks a bunch MS). But I hate to recommend it just in case it doesn't fix things.