A friend of mine is having this problems with his computer. He recently purchased a gravis gamepad (USB) and it having a heck of a time getting it to work. Here is the problem... We installed the gamepad and it went fine. We rebooted, and it works fine.. for a while. then out of no where, winXP will chime like when you unplug a usb device, and then it will detect it right away. after this the gamepad will not work until the computer reboots. the computer will do this everytime, and i dont know what can be done or what is causing the problem. i have switched usb ports and have the same thing happen. I think it might be attribuatble to the usb ports and not the gamepad. he has an optical mouse (USB but we have to use the ps/2 adapter) that will do the same thing, it will only work some of the time, when it wants to.
he is using Windows XP PRo
MSI K7T266PRO2 motherboard
athlon 1.2ghz with 256MB ddr266
is there issues with the motherboard and winxp? i have tried flashing the bios, but have been unsucessful. when i create a dos boot disk in winxp using the command from under "format" - and i boot with the disk, i cannot "see" any other drive besides a: and it is not recommended that i flash the bios from a disk (although i have tried this too and it would not work). would flashing the bios have any effect with winXP?
any information at this point would be useful
thanks
he is using Windows XP PRo
MSI K7T266PRO2 motherboard
athlon 1.2ghz with 256MB ddr266
is there issues with the motherboard and winxp? i have tried flashing the bios, but have been unsucessful. when i create a dos boot disk in winxp using the command from under "format" - and i boot with the disk, i cannot "see" any other drive besides a: and it is not recommended that i flash the bios from a disk (although i have tried this too and it would not work). would flashing the bios have any effect with winXP?
any information at this point would be useful
thanks
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