Hi all,
I recently purchased a HTC Vive and was looking forward to playing with it. I bought a gaming PC specifically for this purpose, so I couldn't wait to give it a try. I turned on the PC and then the literal first thing I did was get to work setting up the Vive. (Note: all motherboard drivers, graphics card drivers etc were installed)
I downloaded Vive Setup and ran it, it installed Steam VR etc and everything went fine. It got to the hardware part and I plugged the vive in - it detected the USB but not the HDMI. I switched the HDMI to a different port on my PC and it detected it. I continued with the set up and connected the controllers etc, which worked fine.
Once at the room setup on Steam VR, I closed Steam VR to move my PC into a bigger room (I had it in my bedroom so the ethernet cable could reach - I installed the drivers for my wireless adapter via this ethernet cable). I plugged everything back in and fired the PC back up in the other room, opened Steam VR and went to Room Setup. I was greeted with the 108 error - headset not detected.
I tried absolutely EVERYTHING to try and fix this. I tried different ports on my PC, I restarted the PC a billion times, checked the wires into the headset, re-installed Steam VR and Viveport, reinstalled drivers, bypassed the link box, REINSTALLED WINDOWS, still I received the 108 error. (Note: after reinstalling windows and viveport, the detection part of the setup failed to detect the Vive. I let it sit there for 10 minutes and suddenly it detected it, and installed all the necessary drivers. I booted up Steam VR and it detected my headset, but Steam VR said it did not start correctly so I couldn't start a game. I closed and re-opened Steam VR, whilst feeling extremely cynical that the 108 error would return, and of course the error did return.
I have a degree in Computer Science and this had left me totally baffled. After 5.5 hours of trying to set it up I concluded that the Vive must be broken, so I sent it back to GAME. I have just got off the phone with them and they say that my new Vive will be sent out today and should arrive tomorrow. I am posting this because I would like to know if anybody else has experienced a similar problem, and how they fixed it. At first I was extremely excited to get a Vive but now I am just worried that this new Vive won't work either. I pray that this new Vive will work flawlessly but incase it doesn't and I am faced with the dreaded 108 error again, what else can I try?
Here's my PC specs:
Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 1700X 95 W 8 Core/16 Threads 3.8GHz 4MB CPU
RAM: 16GB DDR4
Graphics Card: NVidea ZOTAC GeForce GTX1070 Mini 8GB GDDR5
Thanks in advance :)