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Joe DiFonzo
After installing Windows XP SP2, my Sidewinder Precision2 USB joystick
stopped working. The stick I know is fine because I plugged it into my
laptop (still running SP1) and it was activated straight away.
I tried plugging it into every USB port on the SP2 machine to no avail. The
ports are working fine as I have a Microsoft USB optical mouse and a Canon
scanner plugged into them with no problems. Also all of the device manager
entries are clear (no ! or ? or X) and all USB hubs show that they are
'working properly'.
Weirdly, when I plug the stick in it is not giving an error about not
finding a proper driver or anything like that, just *nothing* happens when I
plug it in. I would have expected the little balloon saying "Found new
hardware..." to pop up. (This is what happens when I plug it into the
SP1-equipped laptop.)
The stick worked fine until I installed SP2. I used it to play BF Vietnam
almost every day.
Has anyone else seen this problem? What gives?
Thanks in advance,
Joe
stopped working. The stick I know is fine because I plugged it into my
laptop (still running SP1) and it was activated straight away.
I tried plugging it into every USB port on the SP2 machine to no avail. The
ports are working fine as I have a Microsoft USB optical mouse and a Canon
scanner plugged into them with no problems. Also all of the device manager
entries are clear (no ! or ? or X) and all USB hubs show that they are
'working properly'.
Weirdly, when I plug the stick in it is not giving an error about not
finding a proper driver or anything like that, just *nothing* happens when I
plug it in. I would have expected the little balloon saying "Found new
hardware..." to pop up. (This is what happens when I plug it into the
SP1-equipped laptop.)
The stick worked fine until I installed SP2. I used it to play BF Vietnam
almost every day.
Has anyone else seen this problem? What gives?
Thanks in advance,
Joe