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321564 2005-02-04 18:16:00 It has been suggested to me that my PSU might not be enough to handle my joystick.
I have a 350w no name PSU.
I have six USB ports. Five of them in use. My comp is an Athlon 64 3200+ with 1024 megs ram and 120 gig SATA HD. LAN and fire wire dis-enabled in bios. Sound also dis-enabled.
Nothing else gives any problem. Does a cordless joy stick require oodles of power?

Field Value
Computer
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
OS Service Pack Service Pack 2
Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.2180 (IE 6.0 SP2)
DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)
Computer Name JACK-4BQ5LH519Z
User Name Owner

Motherboard
CPU Type AMD Athlon 64, 2433 MHz (11 x 221)
Motherboard Name Asus K8N-E Deluxe (5 PCI, 1 AGP, 3 DDR DIMM, Audio, Gigabit LAN, IEEE-1394)
Motherboard Chipset nVIDIA nForce3 250Gb, AMD Hammer
System Memory 1024 MB (DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Type AMI (10/04/04)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM1)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM2)
Communication Port ECP Printer Port (LPT1)

Display
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 (128 MB)
3D Accelerator nVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
Monitor Proview 986 (1313241117)

Multimedia
Audio Adapter nVIDIA MCP2-S - Audio Codec Interface

Storage
IDE Controller NVIDIA nForce3 250 Parallel ATA Controller (v2.6)
IDE Controller NVIDIA nForce3 250 Serial ATA Controller (v2.6)
Floppy Drive Floppy disk drive
Disk Drive ST380013AS (80 GB, 7200 RPM, Serial-ATA/150)
Optical Drive SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352B (DVD:16x, CD:52x/24x/52x DVD-ROM/CD-RW)
SMART Hard Disks Status OK

Partitions
C: (NTFS) 76308 MB (65913 MB free)

Input
Keyboard HID Keyboard Device
Mouse Logitech USB iFeel Mouse
Game Controller Microsoft PC-joystick driver

Network
Network Adapter Belkin USB Network Adapter (10.0.0.12)

Peripherals
Printer Family Tree Maker Printer
Printer Panasonic KX-P7100
USB1 Controller nVIDIA MCP2-S - OHCI USB 1.1 Controller
USB1 Controller nVIDIA MCP2-S - OHCI USB 1.1 Controller
USB2 Controller nVIDIA MCP2-S - EHCI USB 2.0 Controller
USB Device Belkin USB Network Interface
USB Device Logitech USB iFeel Mouse
USB Device USB Composite Device
USB Device USB Human Interface Device
USB Device USB Human Interface Device

Anyonehave any idea why joystick won't work. I notice I have a Microsoft PC-joystick driver installed. Could it be causing interference with Logitech joystick?
Jack
JJJJJ (528)
321565 2005-02-04 18:42:00 Have you installed any Logitech software for it? Normally you have to instal before plugging in USB devices. PaulD (232)
321566 2005-02-04 18:46:00 Have you installed any Logitech software for it? Normally you have to instal before plugging in USB devices.
Yes all software is installed. Joystick will work sometimes. Though recently it has spent more time refusing to work than it does working.
After installing software the software offers to calibrate joystick BUT then it can not find joystick.!!!
Jack
JJJJJ (528)
321567 2005-02-04 20:39:00 have you tried a different brand of batteries? Prescott (11)
321568 2005-02-04 22:07:00 Yes JJJJJ (528)
321569 2005-02-04 22:21:00 have you tried unplugging some of the other USB devices before using the joystick? 4bes (2848)
321570 2005-02-04 22:26:00 Yes tried that too JJJJJ (528)
321571 2005-02-05 01:03:00 have you tried a different wireless joystick for testing purposes? Prescott (11)
321572 2005-02-05 02:40:00 Any USB device can take a maximum of 500 mA at 5V from the USB port. That's 2.5 watts. If the joystick is USB, it is designed to work with 500 mA or less. Each USB port has 500 mA available, unless it's an unpowered USB hub, which can supply a total of 500 mA.

Youi have been told codswalllop, Jack.
Graham L (2)
321573 2005-02-05 02:44:00 have you tried a different wireless joystick for testing purposes?
No I don't have acess to one. I'm going to buy a new joystick and I'm trying to decide on a PSU model or a gameport one. If a get a gameport one I will have to install a game port. My MB supports it but I haven't installed it.
I'm pretty sure it's the J/S at fault. USB ports are all working,
Jack
JJJJJ (528)
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