Microsoft Precision Racing Wheel & Win2K

hi there. i've got an Athlon 1.4, 512MB RAM, tons of harddrive space, running fully patched Windows 2000 Pro. i have issues with my MS Precision Racing Wheel (non-FF) that i've been able to resolve before but seem to be persisting right now. the wheel originally installed fine, even though i was warned that i was using win2k and the Sidewinder software was incompatible. i installed and played a few games for awhile and enjoyed the hell out of it. then, inexplicably, the wheel disappeared from the Sidewinder control panel. a few times i'd managed to get it working by uninstalling & reinstalling the USB device itself and the Sidewinder software, and it seemed to fix it for awhile. now, however, no matter what i do, i can't get the frickin' wheel working again. nothing i do seems to detect it. i've tried all my USB ports, which i know work as i have a couple other USB devices that work fine through them. any suggestions? unfortunately, extensive USB troubleshooting is not something i've had to do in the past. -- www.ncf.ca/~ag181 ag181 at ncf dot ca

"JTD" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:zVD78.98792$[email hidden]... > hi there. i've got an Athlon 1.4, 512MB RAM, tons of harddrive space, > running fully patched Windows 2000 Pro. i have issues with my MSPrecision

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> Racing Wheel (non-FF) that i've been able to resolve before but seem to be > persisting right now. > > the wheel originally installed fine, even though i was warned that i was > using win2k and the Sidewinder software was incompatible. i installed and > played a few games for awhile and enjoyed the hell out of it. > > then, inexplicably, the wheel disappeared from the Sidewinder control

panel. > a few times i'd managed to get it working by uninstalling & reinstallingthe > USB device itself and the Sidewinder software, and it seemed to fix it for > awhile. > > now, however, no matter what i do, i can't get the frickin' wheel working > again. nothing i do seems to detect it. i've tried all my USB ports,which > i know work as i have a couple other USB devices that work fine throughthem. > > any suggestions? unfortunately, extensive USB troubleshooting is not > something i've had to do in the past. > Initiate a support contact with MS. Get them to send you the 4.0 sidewind software for the wheel (not, as I found out, the same stuff that comes in the FF2 joystick box). And wait for a while. On the bright side, it is free shipping. And no, it's not available for download on their site for some silly reason.