Quake3World

...even ones that were previous working yesterday.

Here's the scoop. I picked up the Microsoft wireless gaming receiver for windows I go to install it to test some things I'm writing in XNA. Once it installs I test my code and it all works fine. Then I go to bed and come back and basically all my USB devices stop working. No keyboard, no mouse no iPod charger, no USB flash drive, no printer. all USB devices just don't work. When I plug in any USB device including ones that worked previously I get "USB Device Not Recognized" for everything. So um any ideas?

Running windows XP SP2 all drivers for mentioned devices are at their most recent.

Thanks

have you rebooted, uninstalled the new device, got a restore point you can go back to etc? do serial devices still work?

rebooted many times. ps/2 stuff still works which is how I can do this.
Tried a restore point and uninstalling but that didn't do it.

Haven't had any issues with serial devices only USB appears to be affected.

This did start happening after you got the wireless receiver?

I have one myself but haven't had any major issues with it yet (except I can't seem to be able to bind A in any game)

Uninstall all USB device drivers in the Device Manager, then reboot and be sure to read this.

ok, yes problems started when I had set up the receiver.

I'll let ya know how uninstalling everything goes.

ok so i uninstalled all things USB including hidden stuff and rebooted. After the whole "Found New Hardware" things reinstalled the USB controllers and Root Hubs I tried pluggiing in my flash drive and I got the same message "USB Device Not Recognized.

same result with my keyboard.

Seems like this thing is causing some problems for many people, dunno about yours but it seems unique. Check these threads out:

http://forums.xbox.com/10217472/ShowPost.aspx

http://forums.xbox.com/10257716/ShowPost.aspx

Some people that have had connection issues said that unplugging all devices and trying the receiver by itself could be a fix (of course that's not entirely the problem you are having, but in general I think it doesn't like some devices, so there's some incompatibilities with certain types of usb devices).

There's also an update for the receiver (auto update doesn't pick this up)

http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/gaming/download.mspx

I was kinda thinking this receiver would have problems since it's wireless, dunno but microsoft didn't iron out all the kinks. The wired controller would probably be a better choice overall.

in retro spect yeah but it's a little late now.

so anyway. I tried updating USB drivers, reinstalling chipset plug and play drivers, reinstalling service pack 2, and removing all USB again. still no dice. All USB ports are still pretty much useless.

I'll try the update see if that works.

ok so I'm not the only one with this prob but still no solution
http://forums.driverguide.com/showthread.php?t=3725

This describes my setup exactly, down to recently installing SP2

Try removing SP2, then goin into device manager and selecting the Root Hub(s) and selecting 'update driver'.

This should get you back up and running. Then try installing SP2 after this if successful.

ok, this sounds kind of dumb, but i use the add/remove programs to remove SP2 but when it completes, service pack 2 is still on the list, when I reboot Service pack 2 still shows up when I right-click my computer and hit properties. is there some setting I need to tweak before uninstalling that I'm not aware of? I did this on an admin account so I don't think it's a permissions thing.

ok tried uninstalling it through the start-->run prompt and that gave me an error message: "Can not find the file specified." the problem is it doesn't say which file it can't find so I'm kinda stuck.

Hummm... Mine worked pretty flawlessly out of the box. All keys bind-able. Only thing missing is force feedback.

Installed controller driver from website, plugged in receiver, pressed guide button, pressed sync button on both controller and receiver.

I think the problem is one of the recent windows updates
I just formatted and reinstalled windows and things worked. Then when I went and installed sp2 things were still fine. finally when I grabbed the lastest post SP2 updates things stopped working and i got the same errors as before.

So windows update can go fuck itself. trying one more format and leaving it this way.