I have an issue that suddenly happened upon my moving, and re-assembling my computer that I use for FSI have Vista 64-bit, and now it does not recognize any of my USB joysticks, CH yoke & pedals. When I plug them in, I get no "sound" that they are connecting. They don't show up under game controllers under device manager either. When I plug a USB HDD into the port, it gets recognized by Vista.I've gone the route of a "repair/upgrade" install in Vista, and still no joy! I have the most updated drivers for my motherboard/sound card/ethernet/video etc. I even went and bought a basic joystick to see if it was the controllers themselves. The new joystick did not work eitherAnyone have any ideas? I'm stumped. I'm "locked out" of FSX without controllers!ThanksBillIntel I7 - 920Vista 64 SP216meg RamGigabyte GA-RX58-UD4P

Just some quick thoughts to kick it off..... Are you plugging everything into a hub? if so, Could the hub or it's power adapter have failed?What does your "hardware manager" say about any USB hub?and/or have you unplugged all USB items before start up and then plugged them back in one at a time with the system running? Including hubs..

Thanks for the note.I've actually pulled the hub out of the loop (tried a different hub too, still same issue). I'm trying to plug directly into the USB ports on in the back, on the Mobo to simplify things. I've tried a 2nd USB keyboard into the ports, and Vista recognizes that just fine. When I try my Saitek AV8R, or my CH yoke, or pedals, on the same port (after removing the 2nd keyboard) it does not recognize them, and gives no indication that anything has been plugged in. I also tried to "force" Vista to scan for devices by using device manager and successively "disable" USB enhanced controller entries in Device Manager - nothing.It has to be some Vista issue, or some setting in Vista. I have a laptop, with Vista 64 also, it has the same issue now too. Just before I packed them up, they did a vista update from MS. Now they don't recognize any USB game devices (they do recognize HDD's,mice, & keyboards etc.). I've tried to roll back all the updates, and tried an "upgrade" install - no joy.I'm stumped!I just don't want to have go down the clean window install route as that just stinks!!ThanksBill

This happened to me once on my old XP system and it WAS one of the MS updates for service pack 2 that did it, (one of the security updates if I remember) also at the time, (after SP2 install) my device manager would only come up with a blank screen for system devices so could not even research the problem... was not until I found this out and used a MS hotfix did it start working... Not saying it's your problem, but that it CAN be MS update that causes some of these things...I'll stop back if I think of anything you can try or hear of anything from others... Let's hope someone stops in here that knows in the mean time