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re: gamepads stopped working
Thursday, August 4, 2005 at 12:09 am
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Posted by justin (3 messages posted)


ok, found the drivers for the propad controller, insalled them, that one shows up now but it says "not connected"...now heres the wierd thing, when i restart if i go into the game controllers menu in control panel my USB controller shows up and is "connected" u can even go into properties to adjust it and it responds...thing is after a few minutes it dissapears and the ol "check device manager screen" error message pops up....its odd, yhea i will have to check the controllers on a diffrent comp tommarow, good suggestion though, thanks for the help so far


On Wednesday, August 3, 2005 at 12:58 am, stijn wrote:
>strange...
>
>stupid but did yuo try the gamepads on another computer so we are very sure they
>still work? Never know that the cat has been biting on it, or...
>
>Did you update windows, depending on your settings windows also updates automatically...
>Should not affect your gamepad...
>Try to remove the hardware in your device manager (both devices), restart your computer.
> Then check for drivers for win xp for both devices and download them, this way we're
>sure we're using the latest drivers. Plug in the devices. Windows should detect
>both. Follow the installation procedure once windows asks for the drivers if not
>installed automatically and see what happens...
>
>
>


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re: gamepads stopped working (stijn: Wednesday, August 3, 2005 at 12:58 am)

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All messages in this thread [show all]
-gamepads stopped working (justin: Mon, Aug 1, 2005, 6:31 pm)
-re: gamepads stopped working (stijn: Tue, Aug 2, 2005, 4:24 am)
-re: gamepads stopped working (justin: Tue, Aug 2, 2005, 9:18 pm)
-re: gamepads stopped working (stijn: Wed, Aug 3, 2005, 12:58 am)
*re: gamepads stopped working (justin: Thu, Aug 4, 2005, 12:09 am)
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