Communication problem with Boot disk

[JeZii]

Hey!

I'm all new to CH Products and yesterday I bought CH Pro Pedals and CH F-16 Fighterstick - both are game port controllers. However, there were no manuals with them. The loss is worth the small price though - 10 euros in total. :thumbsup:

I've already flought with the pedals and a bit with the fighterstick without having the buttons programmed correctly. So I found this page and downloaded this XP Boot disk and tried it out.

I think the stick is connected correctly, but when I try to access the "chsetup", it keeps on saying something like this: Could not communicate with the throttle or joystick. I have the joystick connected with both game port and PS/2 cables and my keyboard is connected to the PS/2 cable's "thru port" (or whatever you call it). Those MIDI looking cables are not connected to any ports - could this have something to do with it?

I'll give you yet another glue, which might help with this problem. If I have both the joystick and the keyboard connected to the same PS/2 port, my Windows XP will just disable my keyboard during the Windows loading screen... :blink: I could use the keyboard to access BIOS for example (or use the boot disk), but it won't work for Windows. If I remove the joystick cable and connect the keyboard only and then reboot, the keyboard will work. Driver problems maybe?

Thank you in advance! :cheers:

[BLAZERBRUCE]

JeZii,

Are you using a USB Keyboard with a PS/2 adapter?

The Fighterstick uses the keyboard port for data transfer to the chips inside the Fighterstick. Using the mouse port instead will cause the program to crash.

If your refering to the MIDI looking cables as the ones on your fighterstick and pro pedals, those have to be pluged into the computer to supply the power to run the fighterstick during programming, and at all times you are using the Joystick and pedals.


~Bruce

[JeZii]

Thank you for your reply!

Oh yeah, by those "MIDI looking cables" I kind of meant "MIDI looking plugs"... :D They're not in a different cable, they're in the same cable where the PS/2 plugs are too. I found out somewhere though, that the "MIDI looking plugs" are for some different kind of keyboard... No problem there anymore, I guess. :)

And I'm using a 100% PS/2 keyboard, no adapters used...

BTW, I tried programming the stick with another computer and it actually worked... At least kind of. When I was programming the stick by assigning buttons to "macro string" and also the specific letters, it didn't seem to work correct in the test mode. The buttons were correctly assigned with some letters, but when I tried to test pressing them in the test mode, it didn't show any response.

Well, if I ever somehow could program the stick with another computer, could it be possible to use that configuration with my own computer? Would that 'transmitting' do that job?

Thanks again, sorry to be such a trouble... :unsure:

[BLAZERBRUCE]

Yea, those other plugs you speak of where for the old of old school AT computers. As long as you can program on another pc, the fighterstick will store its configuration in its rom and will work on any pc.. The fighterstick taps into the keyboard wiring. Sounds like your hardware completely blocks write access to the ps/2 port


~Bruce