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[be9ine]

Can't seem to find help for this anywhere else. I recently unearthed a flash advance xtreme USB I bought several years ago and just now got it working. Previously when I attempted to get it to work correctly, I was unable to ever get the Xtreme link software or little writer to find the linker. After playing with it recently, I was finally able to get it working. I have since been using Visoly's Xtreme Link software because it works with my linker while Little writer and others do not. Now to the problem. I have had trouble free service with this product for awhile, and now, when I try to flash games or format the card with the linker, the light goes from green to red (as it should) but then turns off at random times. The software gives me no errors when the light goes out. I have tried uninstalling the drivers and re-installing them, as well as disabling and re-enabling the drivers. Can anyone offer any advice on how to fix this? Thank you in advance.

[McBanjo]

I am in the same situation as you but the light on my device doesnt go red, it stays green. When i plug it in it says that its and Unknown Device and that it is not recognized. When installing the latest drivers manually it says that the driver contains no information about the hardware. I havent ever used this device because of this problem for 4+ YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!! Any help would be appreciated, maybe because im running xp sp2 or how to edit the .inf file so itll recognize it. How can i force windows to accept the drivers? Any help greatly appreciated.

[be9ine]

Where did you get the drivers you have? I got mine from here along with the software I used to flash to the card. I couldn't get mine working for years either till I installed these drivers. Make sure you uninstall any previous drivers before installing those. I just unzipped the drivers into a folder on my desktop and then plugged in the linker and when I was asked to install drivers I just told it to look in the folder I unzipped the drivers into. Let me know if you have any questions or if this method works for you.

This post has been edited by be9ine: Dec 10 2005, 01:57 AM

[namjoe]

Hi,

I experienced the same problems as McBanjo. I recently re-installed the operating system.
The first thing I installed were the visoly software and the linker usb driver. Everything worked fine
until I installed another usb driver for some other divice.

Now the other stuff works, but the visoly software crashes when I start it. Device manager says
the linker works properly. My guess is that the visoly software/usb driver do not work together
with other usb drivers.

Unfortunately I don't have a clue on what to do in order to get the linker to work again.

[bigfootale]

this might be off-topic, but i used to have problems using an EZFA linker, where my OS wouldn't recognize it on some of my pc's, but got tired of only being able to have a couple games on it, and when i traded in my SP for a Micro, the cable wouldn't even connect to the GBA so i was up a creek.  Well, i just bought a GBA Super Card, which is a 'shell' gba cartridge in which you put a compact flash or SD memory card in, instead of having it embedded in the cart.  the result is being able to stick a 1GB SD cart (had one lying around) into the SuperCard and then being able to put hundreds of games on it!!!!!  very happy indeed.  and you don't have to worry about weird drivers because you just use a regular card reader, which WinXP already has the drivers for.  the best part is that these cards are about $50 including shipping (just bought mine on ebay).

i highly recommend this route, because memory is so much flipping cheaper when buying a SD or CF card.  Plus, a 256kb EZFA cart is actually just a 32MB cart.....the numbers can be misleading if you don't know your bits and bytes:-)

[Perplexer]

For what it's worth:

I have a Flash Advance Linker Xtreme and Flash2Advance 256Mbit card.

Running fine under WinXP Pro SP2.  In fact, I'm currently using the cart for DS games in conjunction with FlashMe.

I recall I may have had issues with the FlashAdvance on my USB2 ports... but my LCD monitor has a USB1 hub built-in, and the linker works just fine using those ports.

So try on a USB1.0 port or a USB 1.0 hub and see if that helps.

[be9ine]

Thanks to everyone who replied! I actually have a super card sd now and it's great! However, I would still like to get this one fixed. As far as trying it on a USB 1 hub or port, that sounds like a great idea. However, I only have 2.0 and I'm not really willing to buy anything extra just for this. Is there anyway to downgrade one of my USB 2.0 ports temporarily? Or, I don't know, emulate USB 1.0 or 1.1? Again, thanks for the help! In response to namjoe, where did you DL the software and drivers?

[jimjom]

MY EZFA SUDDENLY WONT WRITE! JUST FREEZES UP!!! NOES!!!!!!

[namjoe]

@be9ine:

Don't know where I downloaded the drivers. The latest version I could get was the same as the one included with the linker. That is the same version as the one of the drivers from gameboy-advance.net. I think if the driver works or not depends on what other USB devices you have installed. My sidewinder pad and digital camera drivers did not cause any problems with the linker.

By now I did two clean installations of WinXP. First time the XtremeLink software stopped working after I installed SpeedFan. Second time it was the USB driver for a heart rate monitor/cycling computer. This points to the Visoly driver to be the part not working properly, because I don't think all the other software is buggy.
(By the way: The driver manufacturer string of the Visoly driver says 'USB by Example')

I 'll try using the linker with the printer port interface.

[be9ine]

Yeah, gameboy-advance.net is where I got my drivers and software as well. As far as the EXFA problems, seems like I remember hearing about a hacked driver for EZFA that fixes some common problems. I don't think Visoly (Xtreme link manufacturer) is no longer around. Oh well.