sidewinder gamepad

[wendy]

Hi

I have a sidewinder gamepad and i use xp it won't detect it, how do i get it
to work??
can anyone help me out?? i don't have any disks for the gamepad i got it off
ebay and it worked fine with 98
wendy

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Connect the gamepad to the PC and go to the Control Panel. Click on Game
Controllers and use the AutoDetect feature. XP has the drivers built in.

Cari
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"wendy" > wrote in message
...
> Hi
>
> I have a sidewinder gamepad and i use xp it won't detect it, how do i get
it
> to work??
> can anyone help me out?? i don't have any disks for the gamepad i got it
off
> ebay and it worked fine with 98
> wendy
>
>

[wendy]

"Cari (MS-MVP)" > wrote in message
...
> Connect the gamepad to the PC and go to the Control Panel. Click on Game
> Controllers and use the AutoDetect feature. XP has the drivers built in.


I can't find the auto detect anywhere.
ok i am really getting annoyed now, i downloaded the latest direct x and
devices for my sound card and the bloody thing still wont work

I go to control panel and then it stays under the USB devices that it does
not reconginze it when i click on that it says that there is no driver
installed when i click to detect or find a driver it then says that the
best one is already installed but there isn't one at all!! i don't get it
stupid thing!

could it have anything to do with the fact that it is meant to be connected
to a game port - my new pc does not have one so i got a connector so it goes
into the USB port instead - is that what is wrong??
wendy