PLEASE help, SlikStik is down, I repeat, SlikStik is down

[GruvMaster]

O.K. I purchased a cabinet already assembled and complete, for a real steal. Everything worked well, and there were no issues, until....

It came with a PC monitor on the tube shelf (it's an old capcom case), and I purchased a 25" T.V., with the intentions of using it's tube instead of the pc monitor. I decided to add a wireless net card, as I have wireless in my home, and it would be easy. I did that to facilitate the search for a driver for the Extasy 9600, 256mb video card I was installing, for it's s-video out. The card itself was not an issue, and the display drivers seemed to load and operate fine as well. The problem, I believe, came from when my son was playing, and he said the machine was updating something. Since it had never had any internet connection, I guess it was set to auto update, and it did. From what I can remember, the version prior to this update was from March(5.something). Now it has version 6.8, and I wrote all of this because I am not really sure if the update was what caused the issue. Most of the controls on the SlikStik no longer function. I can navigate with the joystick, and add coins and begin play, but none of the playfield buttons function. If I just use MAME itself, the controls work fine, so it isn't in the hardware. I have tried all of the things on this forum I could find, including re-loading the software, creating a slikstik.ini file, with slikstik=true in the field, in the proper area. I am not too knolwledgable with this software, and I am at a loss, needless to say, the unit is pretty much useless without the front-end, and it is such a great GUI also....please offer some help if you can....Thanks...

[headkaze]

Sorry I don't know much about the SlikStik or what may have changed since the update. But what are "the playfield buttons"?

[BillyB]

Have you tried setting up the I-PAC software again?

http://www.slikstik.com/down.htm

[Deadly]

O.K. I purchased a cabinet already assembled and complete, for a real steal. Everything worked well, and there were no issues, until....

I use an IPAC4 and it stopped working last night. What I found is that in Device Manager the USB driver screwed up and had a yellow SPLAT on it. It will show up as a "splatted" USB HID device. Right click it, click uninstall, then hit refresh/redetect and it should install perfectly and your IPAC will one again function.

[lingpanda]

I use an IPAC4 and it stopped working last night. What I found is that in Device Manager the USB driver screwed up and had a yellow SPLAT on it. It will show up as a "splatted" USB HID device. Right click it, click uninstall, then hit refresh/redetect and it should install perfectly and your IPAC will one again function.

This was exactly my problem sometimes. Just had to reinstall the driver. Deadly did you see that winkawaks now works in GameEx?