My MOMO is busted. Going back to the "red" old Wingman.

#11

Yup. In fact, the Wingman software couldn't detect my wheel. If I remember
correctly, the first light comes on when there is power. The second light
turns on when it is detected by Windows. In my case, none of the light was
on at all.

"Alan Le" <awle (AT) pacbell (DOT) net> wrote

Quote:

I got this MOMO (brand new) from a friend a while ago. It has been
working.
For months I haven't played anything with my wheel because I was playing
with my Xbox. Yesterday I bought an ATI 9800 pro and really want to get
back to PC gaming again. I just fired up the wheel but no light comes
on.
The wheel is not "turned" on as if no power is getting through. The
adaptar
is warm though. I only paid $25 for it. :-) This is the "black"
version
with soft rubber on the wheel. I opened that sucker up and saw that it
was
gear driven!!!!!! Now, I want to get the old "red" cable-driven Wingman
from JustDeal. My question is that would it run on WinXP? I once had
that
same wheel but forgot if it would work with a serial to USB
converter????

Dumb question... was the latest driver installed? If it was, did you
verify
that XP had correctly identified it? The lights on the MOMO Racing won't
light up unless XP has properly detected it, and the driver is loaded.

Alan

#12

Quote:

Yup. In fact, the Wingman software couldn't detect my wheel. If I
remember
correctly, the first light comes on when there is power. The second light
turns on when it is detected by Windows. In my case, none of the light
was
on at all.

The first light (left one) comes on when the wheel's detected -and- has the
driver properly installed. The second light comes on when force feedback is
active. Was the wheel detected by Windows at all? If not picked up
properly, it should at least appear in the Device Manager as a generic
HID-Compliant device. Assuming it does, the next thing to do would be to
uninstall the device listed, and unplug the wheel from the USB port. Then,
run the Wingman installer (most recent of course), and wait until it gets to
the part where it tries to detect the wheel. That's when you can plug it
in. This isn't alway necessary, but I've found that the wheel sometimes
isn't picked up properly if attached prior to installing the Wingman
software. Also, I generally uninstall an old version prior to installing a
newer one.

Alan

#13

Thanks. Well, WinXP and Wingman can detect the wheel now, for some reasons,
BUT no lights come on and no force feedback. :-(

"Alan Le" <awle (AT) pacbell (DOT) net> wrote

Quote:

Yup. In fact, the Wingman software couldn't detect my wheel. If I
remember
correctly, the first light comes on when there is power. The second
light
turns on when it is detected by Windows. In my case, none of the light
was
on at all.

The first light (left one) comes on when the wheel's detected -and- has
the
driver properly installed. The second light comes on when force feedback
is
active. Was the wheel detected by Windows at all? If not picked up
properly, it should at least appear in the Device Manager as a generic
HID-Compliant device. Assuming it does, the next thing to do would be to
uninstall the device listed, and unplug the wheel from the USB port.
Then,
run the Wingman installer (most recent of course), and wait until it gets
to
the part where it tries to detect the wheel. That's when you can plug it
in. This isn't alway necessary, but I've found that the wheel sometimes
isn't picked up properly if attached prior to installing the Wingman
software. Also, I generally uninstall an old version prior to installing
a
newer one.

Alan

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