Real DMD stops working in PBX

[Pablo Smiraglia]

about 70% of the time I quit a table back to the front end, my real pindmd3 stays blank. Can you help me troubleshoot?

- this happens with every emulator: VP, FP, FX2, FX3, pro pinball, Slamit

- even when the dmd stops working within the front end, I can start another table, in any emu, and the dmd fires up again

- restarting PBX only resolves the problem sometimes

- trying to "reset" the dmd using dmdext.exe after quiting the emu does not help

- I cannot find a pattern to replicate the problem at will, but happens more often than not

-  I use both real color dmd videos and images. when the dmd stops working, it stops showing either

- when working, I see a "Real DMD Initiated" in teh log. that entry is missing when it does not (I guess it makes sense)

 

the second uploaded log is for a new session (pinballx started form desktop) where the DMD did not start. I exited, restarted pinballx, and the dmd started working (third log). 

Logs from v2.41. Since then, I upgraded to 2.5 with same results.

 

PinballX.ini

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[Pablo Smiraglia]

any thoughts what I could do to troubleshoot?

[Postal90]

I have been having the same Problem, it's so random I cannot isolate the cause, I read somewhere to make sure your usb ports are not set up to go to save power mode, I have done that but then again I have had it happen coming out of a dmd game, I think my problems started after I had set up FX2 and dmdext a while back, I took FX2 off and  I am just running Visual Pinball now so I am assuming something is lingering on the system still.  I have been considering just doing a clean install.  I didn't have the problem when I originally got the cabinet going.  I was hoping someone had seen this also and had an easy fix

[Pablo Smiraglia]

any thoughts from the devs?