I was trying to install my Joystick (MS Sidewinder) and can't get the PC to recognize it. When I go to the contol panel and try to add new joystick I get this message.



I tried deleting and reinstalling the gameport in the device manager but still no help.
Any ideas?
Thanks

My PC running Windows XP SP2

• 3.2 GHZ Pentium w/HT


• 4GB DDR SDRAM at 400MHz


• Radeon X1650GT 512MB 128-bit GDDR3 AGP 8X IceQ Turbo Video Card


• 160GB Hard Drive / 300GB Hard Drive

    

Look for duplicate devices in Safe Mode. Boot to safe mode by pressing F8 before the starting windows message appears and choosing safe mode from the menu. In safe mode, go to Device Manager and expand the Sound and Game Controllers tree. Try cleaning out all devices (duplicates included) from the sound and game controllers category and restart normally. Windows should detect your sound card, related components and the game port. (you may have to supply drivers)

If it doesn't (after doing what I said in Safe Mode), you can try the Add New Hardware wizard in control panel. It might pick it up.

Grogan

Well, I got the PC to recognize that the Joystick exist but... this is the new message.



Something has got to be screwed up somewhere
BTW: I have SB16 Live.

My PC running Windows XP SP2

• 3.2 GHZ Pentium w/HT


• 4GB DDR SDRAM at 400MHz


• Radeon X1650GT 512MB 128-bit GDDR3 AGP 8X IceQ Turbo Video Card


• 160GB Hard Drive / 300GB Hard Drive

    

Have a look at this:

SideWinder: Game Controller Status Is "Not Connected" Using SoundBlaster Game Port (Q237612)

Grogan