Sidewinder Force Feedback 2 Problem with XP

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My Sidewinder Force Feedback 2 seems to have a problem
with the return to center tension. The device appears in
game controllers and calibrates, but the return to center
tension works inversely - i.e. it returns to the
perimeter and is difficult to hold at center - same with
all three levels of force - any ideas? ALways worked
correctly before - haven't used in a month or two, now
have SP2 - could this be related? Connected to the USB
ports of my ABit NF7-S mobo (NForce2).

 

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HI,
Remove teh SP2 & then try. Because their are lot of
issues related to SP@ & it may cause a working device or
hardware to behave erraticaly.

try removing the sp2 using its uninstall option in
control panel -> Add remove programs -> SP2 uninstall.

Mahendra
>-----Original Message-----
>My Sidewinder Force Feedback 2 seems to have a problem
>with the return to center tension. The device appears
in
>game controllers and calibrates, but the return to
center
>tension works inversely - i.e. it returns to the
>perimeter and is difficult to hold at center - same with
>all three levels of force - any ideas? ALways worked
>correctly before - haven't used in a month or two, now
>have SP2 - could this be related? Connected to the USB
>ports of my ABit NF7-S mobo (NForce2).
>.
>

 

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Oh yeah, that was an intelligent post. Don't uninstall SP2. Unplug the
device from the computer and do the following, then reboot and plug it
back in.

Click Start-Run-Type regedit and click OK. Navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USB

Now delete whatever folder starting with Vid_Xxxx that contains
information about your Sidewinder product. Once you have done that,
reboot and plug the device in.


----
Nathan McNulty


Mahendra wrote:
> HI,
> Remove teh SP2 & then try. Because their are lot of
> issues related to SP@ & it may cause a working device or
> hardware to behave erraticaly.
>
> try removing the sp2 using its uninstall option in
> control panel -> Add remove programs -> SP2 uninstall.
>
> Mahendra
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>My Sidewinder Force Feedback 2 seems to have a problem
>>with the return to center tension. The device appears
>
> in
>
>>game controllers and calibrates, but the return to
>
> center
>
>>tension works inversely - i.e. it returns to the
>>perimeter and is difficult to hold at center - same with
>>all three levels of force - any ideas? ALways worked
>>correctly before - haven't used in a month or two, now
>>have SP2 - could this be related? Connected to the USB
>>ports of my ABit NF7-S mobo (NForce2).
>>.
>>