Sidewinder gamepad USB

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Mary B

I've been tearing my hair out for 2 weeks trying to get
this gamepad to work. I've downloaded drivers etc. I am
operating on Windows XP and everytime I hit add, it gives
me a message "Your gameport or gameport drivers are not
properly configured".The gamepad did not come with any
software. Got any suggestions? I don't know where to start.

Mary Boide
 
Start/Control Panel/Game controllers/add/Microsoft sidewinder auto detect...
it should then load the XP drivers and work.

Randy
 
This method of adding a device is only for gameport devices. USB devices as
the title suggests are Plug and Play and should load automatically when
connected to the USB port. I responded to your other post suggesting if your
gamepad didn't get automatically detected by the system then you probably
have a VIA controller for your USB and that you should get the update for
your USB controller. This site should have what you need.
http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=2

Let me know if you need more help or something explained in more detail.
 
It can also be that some people erroneously follow the suggestions of one PC
magazine and a couple web sites to "tweak" their systems for better
performance by turning off UPnP and Cryptographic Services in Control
Panel/Administrative Tools/Services.
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