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Title: Saitek Lock Up Problems
Post by: Eagler on June 05, 2000, 07:35:00 AM

Hello
I recently purchased the X36 combo USB. Fantastic stick. I had the buggy analog version for years, switched to the Sidewider PP (analog) and then back to the USB X36 after reading all your posts and realizing I needed more buttons in AH.
 Problem is that when I'm online for a while, the computer freezes (with a ticking noise) or reboots itself. The only way to release the lockup is to power cycle the computer (reset). I noticed the USB Host controller and the NIC (CABLE MODEM) both share IRQ 3 (com 2 disabled). Is this an issue? I do not seem to have any problems when flying around offline. I am running a Abit BE6 with a P3 500, 128 meg of ram, V550 diamond video with 16 meg of ram at 1024x768 at 32 bit color. The X36 is the only USB device on the system. I didn't have any lock up problems running the analog Sidewinder through the game port. Scandisk and defrag AOK.

thanks in advance for any help
Eagler

Title: Saitek Lock Up Problems
Post by: Pollock on June 05, 2000, 11:02:00 AM

Had a similar problem,

load the SGE SW from the saitek website and coinfirm you have DirectX 7.0A loaded.

Title: Saitek Lock Up Problems
Post by: Eagler on June 05, 2000, 06:28:00 PM

Pollock
thanks for the reply. Yes I have the latest SGE SW from the saitek website and am running DirectX 7.0A loaded.Any other suggestions?
Eagler

Title: Saitek Lock Up Problems
Post by: 1776 on June 06, 2000, 12:49:00 AM

 http://user.mc.net/~ronht/IndexFrame1Source1.htm (http://user.mc.net/~ronht/IndexFrame1Source1.htm)


See if the site can help ya.