Hi guys, a week ago on the spot I finally have made it to windows xp after having been an extensive time consumer of 98 SE. the whole thing seems reasonably acceptable , still trying to reinstall all of my bits and pieces but I do have a concern

Always is recognized and works well on My XP. Are you plugging it into your soundcard's port or do you have a motherboard port? Maybe you have a soundcard and you're plugging it in your mobo's onboard sound (that's disabled). Try switching a few things around! Also try removing all relevant devices and letting XP put them back in.Good luck!P.S. If you do use a soundcard, there's a detatchable port connector for joysticks that plugs into it.

I had a similar thing happen to me...what I did was delete all my game controlers via the Device Manager, then add the Sidewinder first, so that it was first in the list.Hope that helps!

Hi Henry,I have also a FF Sidewinder on USB. It is recognised by XP without the installation of drivers or software. I must admit: the pictures of the joystick during the calibration aren't nice and even you could miss the button programming, however, the payware FSUIPC let you program the buttons very nicely. Recently Pete added also a repeat feature for compound buttons which allows you a powerful programming (see the FSUIPC forum, see www.schiratti.com)Greetings,hm

many thanks guys for your reply.i 'll give it a try.henry