I have a lazy trollish controller that works 100% 50% of the time

Minusorange · 6 Jul 2018 at 22:50

So I'm having trouble with my controller, when it works, it works but it doesn't seem to want to power on when I want it to power on.

There's nothing wrong with the cable or the USB ports I've tested them to make sure they're providing enough voltage.

There's no short on the controller as I've taken it apart and it's definitely getting power coming in from the port, all components still in place and solder looks fine. Vibration motors working fine and +/- aren't touching to cause a short there, resistors are all working fine

So I have no clue why it's seemingly trolling me by turning on when I shut down steam, or when I'm taking it apart or sometimes when I switch USB port, if it was an issue components surely it wouldn't work at all than 100% of the time when it decides it wants to work ?

Could the IC on it be broken ? It could be the caps but they aren't inflated and they're reading correct farads so I doubt it, maybe a fault on the PCB itself but that fault should be all the time and not intermittent

It's really annoying :confused:

Boycey0211 · 6 Jul 2018 at 23:29

Came into thread expecting story about your wife, leaving disappointed

Danny75 · 7 Jul 2018 at 00:34

The Steam peculiarity is interesting. Tried any of the methods here? https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/135514287302101617/

Pawnless Endgame · 7 Jul 2018 at 00:36

Boycey0211 said:
Came into thread expecting story about your wife, leaving disappointed

Indeed.

GD requires pics of said wife so that GD can offer their judgement and wisdom :-)

godinman · 7 Jul 2018 at 06:16

Power saving in the usb port or something?

Haze · 7 Jul 2018 at 07:51

Epic thread, buy a new controller......

Minusorange · 7 Jul 2018 at 14:57

godinman said:
Power saving in the usb port or something?

Nope

If leave the controller plugged in it stays on until I unplug it, if I plug it straight back in then it starts being pissy again and randomly decides when it wants to turn on

I mean I can leave it plugged in 24/7 to keep it working 100% of the time but I'd rather not

godinman · 7 Jul 2018 at 18:41

Odd, have you tried uninstalling in device manager and reinstalling using latest drivers? And motherboard drivers?

Minusorange · 7 Jul 2018 at 19:49

godinman said:
Odd, have you tried uninstalling in device manager and reinstalling using latest drivers? And motherboard drivers?

I've done an install, delete, reinstall of drivers

Unless you mean the USB drivers ? I use quite a lot of USB peripherals and they all work flawless apart from this controller which also works fine when it decides it wants to power on, the only thing I think it could be is related to the motors for vibration and the capacitors but the caps are fine and not bloated so I'm at a loss for what the hell is wrong with it.

It's been plugged in for 24 hours now and still working but I know as soon as I unplug it it's going to not work when I plug it in again :confused: