Re: USB Controlleers

What are the brand and models of controllers? Something to try in the
meantime is some controllers have capacitors that get fully charged and then
they either disconnect or become unidentifiable. Either try disconnecting
them for a decent period of time (6 hours or so) or try unplugging them and
temporarily (and carefully) shorting the contacts inside the plug for a few
seconds. Then plug them back in and see if they work again.

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Joshua Smith
DirectInput Test Lab
Microsoft
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"Louis Lerman" <lerman@ufl.edu> wrote in message
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> Well, for some reason my USB Controllers are now not
> functioning (they - 3 USB controllers + 1 now listed
> as "unknown device" all under "other devices" in the
> device manager - all have the "yellow circle and black
> exclamation point" next to them). I tried to reinstall
> them by removing them from the device manager and
> rebooting but for some reason Windows (I am using XP
> Profession SP1) does not reinstall them (the drivers
> cannot be located). I tried to use Windows Update and
> Windows Catalog to get USB drivers but that also failed.
> Is there something else I have missed that can resolve my
> problem? Any help is appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Louis