sidewinder force feedback 2

[Guest]

i have 2 sidewinder force feedback 2 joy sticks ever since i got a mother board that has USB2.0 on it my joysticks work like crap mb is a gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro 2 ive had xp home edtion since it came out no problems but my other mother boards didnt have usb 2.0.ill start game mech4 online play 1 or 2 games retrun to center goes limp wont come back on till restart .ive tried everthing reinstalling driver even runing xp setup again remember i have 2 of theses sticks supose to be compatible AND FOR A 100 BUCKS EACH YOU GUYS SHOULD SUPORT TILL HELL FREEZES OVER!ive talked with others same problems screwy reverse somtimes just goes nuts slams down to one side or theres been an unown error little lighting bolt in properties it doesint power up when entering a game i want a patch or some solution to this problem ive purchased 4 of these over last 3yrs i currently have 2 there dam expensive and theres ZERO SUPORT AT SIDE WINDER all i have is instalition cd that came with them microsoft says it suports then wheres xp drivers grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

 

[CWatters]

Perhaps it's a USB 2.0 issue? I believe USB 2.0 is only supported in WinXP
SP1 not the original WinXP and even then I think it depends on how you
arrived at SP1 (eg was it pre-installed for you when you got your PC or did
you upgrade). Make sure you read the both (or are there more than 2?) of the
knowledge base articles on this. They have titles like "Support for USB 2.0
in Windows XP".

I would make sure you have the latest USB 2.0 support correctly installed
THEN re-install the latest sidewinder drivers from the MS web site if your
copy isn't the latest.

Colin (not an MVP)

i have 2 sidewinder force feedback 2 joy sticks ever since i got a mother

board that has USB2.0 on it my joysticks work like crap mb is a gigabyte
GA-7N400 Pro 2 ive had xp home edtion since it came out no problems but my
other mother boards didnt have usb 2.0.ill start game mech4 online play 1 or
2 games retrun to center goes limp wont come back on till restart .ive tried
everthing reinstalling driver even runing xp setup again remember i have 2
of theses sticks supose to be compatible AND FOR A 100 BUCKS EACH YOU GUYS
SHOULD SUPORT TILL HELL FREEZES OVER!ive talked with others same problems
screwy reverse somtimes just goes nuts slams down to one side or theres been
an unown error little lighting bolt in properties it doesint power up when
entering a game i want a patch or some solution to this problem ive
purchased 4 of these over last 3yrs i currently have 2 there dam expensive
and theres ZERO SUPORT AT SIDE WINDER all i have is instalition cd that came
with them microsoft says it suports then wheres xp drivers grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
Perhaps it's a USB 2.0 issue? I believe USB 2.0 is only supported in WinXP
SP1 not the original WinXP and even then I think it depends on how you
arrived at SP1 (eg was it pre-installed for you when you got your PC or did
you upgrade). Make sure you read the both (or are there more than 2?) of the
knowledge base articles on this. They have titles like "Support for USB 2.0
in Windows XP".

I would make sure you have the latest USB 2.0 support correctly installed
THEN re-install the latest sidewinder drivers from the MS web site if your
copy isn't the latest.

Colin (not an MVP)



(e-mail address removed)... since i got a mother
board that has USB2.0 on it my joysticks work like crap mb is a gigabyte
GA-7N400 Pro 2 ive had xp home edtion since it came out no problems but my
other mother boards didnt have usb 2.0.ill start game mech4 online play 1 or
2 games retrun to center goes limp wont come back on till restart .ive tried
everthing reinstalling driver even runing xp setup again remember i have 2
of theses sticks supose to be compatible AND FOR A 100 BUCKS EACH YOU GUYS
SHOULD SUPORT TILL HELL FREEZES OVER!ive talked with others same problems
screwy reverse somtimes just goes nuts slams down to one side or theres been
an unown error little lighting bolt in properties it doesint power up when
entering a game i want a patch or some solution to this problem ive
purchased 4 of these over last 3yrs i currently have 2 there dam expensive
and theres ZERO SUPORT AT SIDE WINDER all i have is instalition cd that came
with them microsoft says it suports then wheres xp drivers grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr


.

 

[Guest]

i did a fresh install of xp home edtion then i nstalled service pack 1 and gigabyte says for xp plz refer to microsoft web site for updates in other words no suport them ether .like i said i have 2 sticks in good condition same bs happens to each one ok i have the installation sidewinder software version 4.0 it says for windows 98 and thats the newset ive seen sidewider website is useless thats my point where are the updates for xp i see article there saying that its suported wheres driver wheres the patch?

 

[Guest]

all so i do agree its a usb 2.0 issue ok lets adress it cause even with 98 software it worked fine oh yea all the rest of my usb devices work great on this new mother board in fact mb works great everything but this .and only way i can get it to work at all is disableing usb 2.0 and seting it at 1.1 cause otherwise it really does funky chicken thing almost has a some sort of spazum lol its kinda funny but not both worked great before new mb this time usb2.0 had xp home then same as now difference everything works but sidewindewr ffb2 stick.

 

[Guest]

funny thing is is that theres an ad in sidewinder site that says sidewinder joysticks now suported by xp well that would be great but WHERES THE PATCH FOR USB2.0!on my last mb it was not a usb2.0 mb i ran xp since it came out no problems i have had 4 of theses very expensive sticks currently have 2 now. oh yea my other mb even had a via chipset to no problems.microsoft has an artcle in the kb Q321127 that for most part adresses this issue but of course it just says they have been made aware of it and THATS IT LET ME REMIND THESES ARE 100 BUCKS A POP ATLEAST .you can almost buy xp for that .2 of sticks i have purchased xp had been out for some time and you get win 98 drivers?????support from side winder is a joke help plz