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I want to describe some very frustrating issue which back from time to time. It affects a lot of users of 900* wheels of Logitech
I wrote about it to Logitech support and got no response.
Maybe some one of you knows 100% solution.
What happens?
In some unpredicted moments, the wheel is going to restart. Power led start to blinking, game stops to responding on controller movement. After a few seconds wheel starts to recalibrate itself (turning lock to lock)
Interesting is, that it may happens even if game is not run. Even if you don;t touch computer or its peripherals. It is unpredictable and untraceable - system log shows nothing except running service for checking user rights to start something... which is something - it is not written, probably USB or Logitech wheel driver)
Of course if happened during gameplay, car ends up crashed on barriers.
On what systems
From my observation - it may happen on every one. Maybe it depends on some hardware, especially USB controller chipset. Don't know.
I have experienced it on different mobos (Epox 8rda3+, Asus P5KC, Gigabyte P55USB), different wheels (DFP and G25) and different OSes (WinXP and Win7).
hopefully it is not to often, but there are a few my colleagues who has crashed during race just because wheel hanged up.
how often
Hard to say. Sometimes none issues through a month. Sometimes 2 times daily even playing musing and cleaning a living room.
There are some timespans where the issues are reported often by users on our forum. For example 2 years ago from autum till spring. Looks like we have another peek now.
Probably solution
I suspect something related to USB chipsets. But I'm not sure. A few weeks ago I do some changes in connections to USB ports. I put wheel on USB3 controller, all others to USB2 one. Since this I have no issues. But I don't know if it is coincidence or that found solution.
Probably it is not about stability of power line, because wheels don;t start after plug off/in power supply
If someone have experience with this problem, it would be very useful, because it may help a lot of people.
best regards
I wrote about it to Logitech support and got no response.
Maybe some one of you knows 100% solution.
What happens?
In some unpredicted moments, the wheel is going to restart. Power led start to blinking, game stops to responding on controller movement. After a few seconds wheel starts to recalibrate itself (turning lock to lock)
Interesting is, that it may happens even if game is not run. Even if you don;t touch computer or its peripherals. It is unpredictable and untraceable - system log shows nothing except running service for checking user rights to start something... which is something - it is not written, probably USB or Logitech wheel driver)
Of course if happened during gameplay, car ends up crashed on barriers.
On what systems
From my observation - it may happen on every one. Maybe it depends on some hardware, especially USB controller chipset. Don't know.
I have experienced it on different mobos (Epox 8rda3+, Asus P5KC, Gigabyte P55USB), different wheels (DFP and G25) and different OSes (WinXP and Win7).
hopefully it is not to often, but there are a few my colleagues who has crashed during race just because wheel hanged up.
how often
Hard to say. Sometimes none issues through a month. Sometimes 2 times daily even playing musing and cleaning a living room.
There are some timespans where the issues are reported often by users on our forum. For example 2 years ago from autum till spring. Looks like we have another peek now.
Probably solution
I suspect something related to USB chipsets. But I'm not sure. A few weeks ago I do some changes in connections to USB ports. I put wheel on USB3 controller, all others to USB2 one. Since this I have no issues. But I don't know if it is coincidence or that found solution.
Probably it is not about stability of power line, because wheels don;t start after plug off/in power supply
If someone have experience with this problem, it would be very useful, because it may help a lot of people.
best regards
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