WIN 2000, 1942, and USB

[CountRugen]

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

p.s. 2 GHz P4 Machine
ASUS P4S333 MotherBoard (BIOS 1006)
512 MB DDR RAM
64 MB ATI RADEON 7500 (Driver 5.13.1.6166)
SBLive! 5.1 Sound Card (Latest Drivers)
DirectX8.1
Saitek Rumble Force 3D USB Joystick

 

[Daedleus]

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.