Spaceball 4000 FLX stopped functioning

[me1]

I am having a particular issue with my Labtec Spaceball 4000 FLX. I recently had IBM AS 400 interface software added to my computer and everything seemed to function normally after that. But soon thereafter my spaceball stopped functioning within Inventor. I shut everything down and rebooted. When I started Iventor again, I received an error message stating that the Spaceware driver was already running in Inventor. This is baffling.

During startup, the Spaceball software loads and the units beeps normally. I went in and tried to unistall the hardware and software but with less than desired results. I can remove the hardware, but the OS autodetects it and reloads it. Then when I try to unistall the software, it tells me it can't unistall because an application is running and the drivers are in use. Nothing is open and using the drivers. Using the Win Tack manager and checkinig the apllications that are running, I do the the SPWSRV.EXE driver running. But I cannot shut it down, I get and ACCESS DENIED error messsage when I try to shut it down. Another problem I am running into, for some reason the files are locked and cannot be overwritten or removed from the system. I am running Win 2K SP3 on a stand alone unit. I have administrator priviledges.

Has anyone else had simlar problems with their spaceball? I'm getting ready to call Labtec and talk to them. I think I may get the run around because there is no evidence that Labtec even still supports this thing.

Charlie Johnson
Jr. Mfg. Engr.
C&H Die Casting, Inc.
cjohnson@chdiecasting.com

[Anonymous]

If you want to uninstall the Spaceball drivers you
have to disconnect the Spaceball from your computer.  If W2K sees a
peripheral attached to a port, it will install drivers for that
device.

--
Hal Gwin
Mechanical
Designer
Xenogen

[Anonymous]

You didn't happen to install Logitech Mouse drivers did you? There is a
conflict as the logitech mouseware will think there is a mouse there and
grab the port before the SpaceBall get it. It will still beep but it
won't work. The fix for this is to uninstall the Logitech drivers and
throw them as hard as you can. If you need additional mouse driver
support, download the Microsoft Intellipoint software from Microsoft.

There are registry hacks to help fix this but I like the MS drivers
better. If you switch between SpaceBall / SpaceMouse devices and these
are on different ports like Serial / USB then you will have to uninstall
the drivers then very carefully clean out the left over 3DConnexion
entries the reinstall. Just reinstalling won't fix it.

me1 wrote:

> I am having a particular issue with my Labtec Spaceball 4000 FLX. I
> recently had IBM AS 400 interface software added to my computer and
> everything seemed to function normally after that. But soon thereafter
> my spaceball stopped functioning within Inventor. I shut everything
> down and rebooted. When I started Iventor again, I received an error
> message stating that the Spaceware driver was already running in
> Inventor. This is baffling.
>
> During startup, the Spaceball software loads and the units beeps
> normally. I went in and tried to unistall the hardware and software
> but with less than desired results. I can remove the hardware, but the
> OS autodetects it and reloads it. Then when I try to unistall the
> software, it tells me it can't unistall because an application is
> running and the drivers are in use. Nothing is open and using the
> drivers. Using the Win Tack manager and checkinig the apllications
> that are running, I do the the SPWSRV.EXE driver running. But I cannot
> shut it down, I get and ACCESS DENIED error messsage when I try to
> shut it down. Another problem I am running into, for some reason the
> files are locked and cannot be overwritten or removed from the system.
> I am running Win 2K SP3 on a stand alone unit. I have administrator
> priviledges.
>
> Has anyone else had simlar problems with their spaceball? I'm getting
> ready to call Labtec and talk to them. I think I may get the run
> around because there is no evidence that Labtec even still supports
> this thing.
>
> Charlie Johnson
> Jr. Mfg. Engr.
> C&H Die Casting, Inc.
> cjohnson@chdiecasting.com
>