HELP - SP2 killed my Sidewinder!

[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

does the joystick site have drivers that had to be
installed before sp2? what a pain sp2 is if you don't
install some drivers first.

>-----Original Message-----
>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
>
>
>.
>