Driver problems, please read.
Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 8:55 pm
Hi all,
Last night I had horrendous problems with TrackIR drivers. I bought a 7 port powered Belkin hub in order to try and solve persistant disconnect problems that I've been having with my HOTAS Cougar.
I disconnected all four USB devices (Cougar, TrackIR, X-Keys keyboard and ZIP drive) that I was running on my PCI USB 2.0 NEC chipped card and then plugged in the hub which Windows XP detected and installed . I plugged my devices back in and one by one and they were detected EXCEPT the TrackIR. which insisted on being recognised as a "USB Device" for which it couldn't install any drivers.
I followed the following advise in a thread posted on this board which seemed to present a solution for this very problem :
Quote :
"To delete the trackIR completely, which we have only done in Win2K, you must do the following:
Have device plugged in, delete from Device Manager. Unistall our software. Run Regedit and delete everything with the following in it: NaturalPoint, Eye Control Technologies, Pid_2235, Pid_1002, EZUSB, EZmon
That should do it, restart and then install our software, then install the device, it should seem like the computer is finding it for the first time, if it doesn't run you through the "new device found" proceedure, like it did the first time then we didn't get all the entries. Make sure it shows up properly in the Device Manager and then try it out. "
Having edited the registry as described above and double checked that all of these entries were removed I re-booted and still the TrackIR unit was detected as a "USB Device". After many tries at the above without success I disconnected the hub and plugged the USB devices back into the PCI card and restored XP back to an earlier time and Windows detected the devices except TrackIR which it still detected as a "USB device". I uninstalled Track IR and then re-installed it and all seems back io normal."
Sure enough the Pid entries required permissions to be altered in Regedit but all were removed as well as the other referrences to Naturalpoint, Eye Control Technologies, EZUSB, and EZmon.
Conclussion : the above method for registry editing doesn't work with Windows XP/SP1 there's still some entry(ies) Pids ? there that prevents this method from working.
BTW I have also recently removed two Windows Quickfixes that were reported to be causing USB problems.
Regards
Aces JG123
Last night I had horrendous problems with TrackIR drivers. I bought a 7 port powered Belkin hub in order to try and solve persistant disconnect problems that I've been having with my HOTAS Cougar.
I disconnected all four USB devices (Cougar, TrackIR, X-Keys keyboard and ZIP drive) that I was running on my PCI USB 2.0 NEC chipped card and then plugged in the hub which Windows XP detected and installed . I plugged my devices back in and one by one and they were detected EXCEPT the TrackIR. which insisted on being recognised as a "USB Device" for which it couldn't install any drivers.
I followed the following advise in a thread posted on this board which seemed to present a solution for this very problem :
Quote :
"To delete the trackIR completely, which we have only done in Win2K, you must do the following:
Have device plugged in, delete from Device Manager. Unistall our software. Run Regedit and delete everything with the following in it: NaturalPoint, Eye Control Technologies, Pid_2235, Pid_1002, EZUSB, EZmon
That should do it, restart and then install our software, then install the device, it should seem like the computer is finding it for the first time, if it doesn't run you through the "new device found" proceedure, like it did the first time then we didn't get all the entries. Make sure it shows up properly in the Device Manager and then try it out. "
Having edited the registry as described above and double checked that all of these entries were removed I re-booted and still the TrackIR unit was detected as a "USB Device". After many tries at the above without success I disconnected the hub and plugged the USB devices back into the PCI card and restored XP back to an earlier time and Windows detected the devices except TrackIR which it still detected as a "USB device". I uninstalled Track IR and then re-installed it and all seems back io normal."
Sure enough the Pid entries required permissions to be altered in Regedit but all were removed as well as the other referrences to Naturalpoint, Eye Control Technologies, EZUSB, and EZmon.
Conclussion : the above method for registry editing doesn't work with Windows XP/SP1 there's still some entry(ies) Pids ? there that prevents this method from working.
BTW I have also recently removed two Windows Quickfixes that were reported to be causing USB problems.
Regards
Aces JG123