WIN 2000, 1942, and USB

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CountRugen

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Hello,

I have a USB Joystick and Printer that W2K SP-3 seems to recognize fine upon startup. If I play a game for a long period of time, W2K not only loses sight of the USB Joystick (mid-game) but also my USB printer. Auto-detect hardware does not find it nor does pulling out and replacing the USB cables.

I've been to the support sites for 1942, my joystick, my motherboard, and W2K; but no entry matches my problem exactly.

The USB ports are on the motherboard. Some entries in this forum blame BF1942 for USB problems. They may be right, but I believe it may be a Win2K issue, bacause I can play quick games of 1942, exit out, and the USB connections are fine.

When the system goes into DirectX mode, I believe after a certain "timeout" W2K believes it's in "standby" mode (we all know W2K used to drop USB connections on standby, thus SP3 was born). I just don't think SP3 corrected it all, and I was hoping someone else had my problem and found a workaround.

Has anyone else encountered this problem? If so, were you able to fix it and how?

Thanks,
CountRugen

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Daedleus

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I've encountered something similar when using my wireless mouse through it's USB connection. I thought it had something to do with the radio frequency and a possible interference issue, but after rebooting, it operated normally.

I didn't use it in USB for very long because of this. I switched back to PS/2 and have been using it without any issues since. I had originally changed it to USB because of a scroll wheel issue within BF1942. I essentially couldn't use it when plugged in through PS/2, but it worked fine with USB.

I didn't think to check any of my other USB devices, although I do have a USB joystick and printer. I had to reboot when my mouse locked up anyway, so I didn't bother to poke around within the OS.

My setup is similar to yours. Win2k SP3 and various USB devices. However, now that I think about it, I believe the mouse would stop responding while in the OSes GUI. I believe it's a mouse driver issue or communications issue with my USB controller. I simply use the PS/2 port and avoid it altogether.
 
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