Vista - Gamepad stopped working

**Snowee** · 01-12-2009

Ah yes, the wonders of vista lol. Ok yea one day I'm just playing using an old USB Sidewinder that's worked fine forever and all of a sudden poof, no more. It will see the gamepad, but tells me it's not connected properly. Or it will just vanish and reappear repeatedly. Switching USB's has no effect, neither does restarting and it doesn't even see it if I connect it to my motherboard.

<3 you vista.

**MrNeeds** · 01-13-2009

Quote: Originally Posted by Snowee

Ah yes, the wonders of vista lol. Ok yea one day I'm just playing using an old USB Sidewinder that's worked fine forever and all of a sudden poof, no more. It will see the gamepad, but tells me it's not connected properly. Or it will just vanish and reappear repeatedly. Switching USB's has no effect, neither does restarting and it doesn't even see it if I connect it to my motherboard.

<3 you vista.

maybe its not vista being the problem, maybe its the hardware malfuntioning and your dont have anything to blame apart from the obviously flawed vista of which ive had no problems with at all.

**roy69** · 01-15-2009

It all of a sudden failed, Sounds like it may not be working. Have you tried it on another machine?
Have you downloaded any motherboard updates from microsoft.
Are you having any problems with other USB devices?

01-12-2009	#1 (permalink)
Snowee Vista x64 8 posts	Gamepad stopped working Ah yes, the wonders of vista lol. Ok yea one day I'm just playing using an old USB Sidewinder that's worked fine forever and all of a sudden poof, no more. It will see the gamepad, but tells me it's not connected properly. Or it will just vanish and reappear repeatedly. Switching USB's has no effect, neither does restarting and it doesn't even see it if I connect it to my motherboard. <3 you vista.
My System Specs

01-13-2009	#2 (permalink)
MrNeeds Vista Home Premium x64 1,179 posts	Re: Gamepad stopped working Quote: Originally Posted by Snowee Ah yes, the wonders of vista lol. Ok yea one day I'm just playing using an old USB Sidewinder that's worked fine forever and all of a sudden poof, no more. It will see the gamepad, but tells me it's not connected properly. Or it will just vanish and reappear repeatedly. Switching USB's has no effect, neither does restarting and it doesn't even see it if I connect it to my motherboard. <3 you vista. maybe its not vista being the problem, maybe its the hardware malfuntioning and your dont have anything to blame apart from the obviously flawed vista of which ive had no problems with at all.
My System Specs

01-15-2009	#3 (permalink)
roy69 Vista home premium 64 bit 2,097 posts	Re: Gamepad stopped working It all of a sudden failed, Sounds like it may not be working. Have you tried it on another machine? Have you downloaded any motherboard updates from microsoft. Are you having any problems with other USB devices?
My System Specs

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