USB device not recognized

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teddysmith1952

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Hi all,

I'm sure this has come up many many times so I apologize if I'm being a bore. My son has a game controller he has used for some time and now when it is plugged in we get a balloon pop up that says "usb device not recognized". This happened a couple of days ago an I went to the internet for help. I tried rebooting, combofix and even pulled the plug to cut power to the P/C for a few minutes. Still had the prob.

Then yesterday when we plugged the contoller in it worked. Today, same error message. The only thing we have done to the P/C recently was to install microsoft office a couple of days before this started and deleted "open office" that we had installed.

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Jim
 
Try the controller in some different USB ports. Perhaps try it on another PC if possible...

What OS are you running, BTW. I've seen XP become rather confused when USB devices are moved around.
 
Hi,
Thanks for the response. I have three usb ports and have tried all three and get the same error message. The controller works fine in my daughters laptop.
I am running windows XP. Like I stated, it stopped working a few days ago, then worked again, now it's not! Crazy.

Thanks again.
 
Did you install any drivers for it? Did you try loading/reloading drivers for it? Even if it worked without drivers before, maybe something of windows got messed up?
 
Check Device Manager to be certain that the root hub is functioning correctly. Ensure the root hub does not display a yellow circle with an exclamation point.

Make sure that the power requirements of the bus are not being exceeded. USB devices can draw a maximum of 500 milliamps for each connection.

If the device draws less than 50 milliamps, the port may never become active.

USB controllers require that an IRQ be assigned. The IRQ is assigned in the BIOS, and is usually IRQ 9.

Check in "Control Panel", "Admin Tools", "Event Viewer" for any indication of an error on bootup.
 
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