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• Gamepad Xbox 360 as seen in "Device Manager", but not recognized as "Game controller" and will not be installed all the drivers

  My problem is very similar to the one raised here:

  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/windows_other-gaming/Xbox-360-controller-seen-in-Device-Manager-but-not/fcf52151-604e-4BF3-BF55-2fa4930bc415
  However, the OP in this question unfortunately never had answer to his question.
  When I plug my Xbox 360 controller on my laptop, my computer recognizes it as a device, but does not recognize it as a game controller. Instead, my device is listed under a category called "Other devices", and the drivers are not installed (he gets the little warning sign yellow after the icon).
  I tried to install the correct 'Microsoft Xbox 360 accessories' (http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/en-us/d/xbox-360-controller-for-windows (Windows 7 64-bit)) and direct the machine to install its drivers from there, but nothing helps.
  I've tried right-clicking on the device, by clicking 'Uninstall', out in him plugging, uninstalling and reinstalling Microsoft Xbox 360 accessories, restarted my computer and each unique combination of these things.
  I tried to talk to an Ambassador of Microsoft, who told me to update the driver and manually make a 'human interaction device', but unfortunately it did not work.
  I called Support of Windows games, who gave me information from these links:
  support.Microsoft.com/kb/908888
  support.Microsoft.com/kb/906347
  Outside of download the drivers manually in the form of 'Microsoft Xbox 360 accessories' (which I already have), I wasn't able to try all of the hotfixes listed in the guides, because my camera is not listed as a joypad or human interface device. It is simply listed as "Xbox 360 Joypad" and it is listed under the heading "other devices."
  It seems that there is just something wrong with my USB and it's just is not installing drivers properly, but this isn't the case. I plugged many other devices, including an iPod, a mouse and an external HARD drive, which all had their drivers properly installed and works great.
  I also know that it is not a problem with the xbox controller, that I plugged into another laptop (also Windows 7 64-bit), as well as pilots very well on the other laptop.
  I'm really puzzled by this situation. Any help would be greatly appreciated, but please do not repeat the information or links I listed here, or who was in the last question which I quoted above. Thank you for your help.

  UPDATE: I finally got to work. Everything is beautifully detailed in this video from Youtube:

  http://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=kxa5CJsDzwQ
  Here's what you do:
  1. plug your device and go to Device Manager
  2 right click on everything that your computer recognizes your device as (for me, it was listed under 'Other devices' and had a yellow warning sign on this subject) and click on "Uninstall".
  3. disconnect your device
  4. If you have not already done so, download and install the appropriate for your device 'Microsoft Xbox 360 accessories' program
  5. plug your device back on and go back to Device Manager
  6 right-click on everything that your computer recognizes your device as (for me, it was listed under 'Other devices' and had a yellow warning sign on this subject), but this time click on "update driver software".
  7. click on "browse computer driver software.
  8. click on "Let Me pick from a list of drivers for devices on my computer.
  9. Select "Microsoft Common Controller" and then select your device. Have it install this driver. From there on, it should work on.
  If you have any questions, my email is * address email is removed from the privacy *.

• When I plug in an external hard drive usb, it is recognized in Device Manager, but not in Solution Explorer.

  When I plug in an external hard drive usb, it is recognized in Device Manager, but not in Solution Explorer. I use windows 7 on a laptop Pavilion dv7-6b77dx.

  Thank you.  I followed your instructions and it worked.  I am amazed by these forums.  No matter what a person has problems, there is someone out there who has the knowledge and the willingness to share with the less informed.  Thanks again for you information.

  lacroos

• HARD drive secondary, detected in peripheral & BIOS Manager but not in the W7 Explorer

  Subject to HARD drive is detected in the BIOS and Device Manager but not in Explorer Windows.

  Problem is with a single internal partition 2 TB HARD drive that was installed six months ago.
  Since its installation, topic drive HARD has been successfully used for backups of W7.
  Problem started occurring two days before without changing hardware or software.
  There is no error message.
  Several cold reboots, change the data cable and done SATA ports fails.
  Idems for update and uninstall driver followed with reset.

  The system is Windows 7 Pro x 64 with 20Gg RAM and only partition 2 Tb drive HARD primary and 2 TB of HARD drive.

  Thanks a lot for your help.  :-)

  Test your player - create a Bootable CD:
  Ranging from 5 to 20% (depending on the manufacturing) new hard disks are defective.
  Test your drive with the car manufacture utility.
  If you have a new hard drive Seagate the very next thing would be to download Seagate Seatools
  (bootable CD) and check bad sectors.
  SeaTools for information: http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/seatools/
  SeaTools for Windows download: http://www.seagate.com/support/internal-hard-drives/enterprise-hard-drives/saturn/seatools-win-master/
  SeaTools for DOS download:
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  For Western Digital readers to download the .iso from WdDiag file: http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=611&sid=30&lang=en

  Samsung Estool: http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/support/utilities/ES_Tool.html
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  Hitachi Drive Fitness Test Software: http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT
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  Notice of suport Fujitsu disk utility: http://www.fujitsu.com/us/services/computing/storage/hdd/
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• W7 Device Manager does not recognize the Intel AMT devices

  Please help: where can I find - how to install the latest drivers Intel AMT for Windows 7.

  Hello

  Thank you for the question to Microsoft Community. I'll give my best to help you.

  From your problem description, I understand that the Device Manager does not recognize the Intel AMT devices

  What is the brand and model of the computer?

  Check out these links and see if they help.

  Computers that use Intel's vPro technology can have devices that are not recognized in Windows 7 Device Manager

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/976728

  Clean installation WARNING: Back up your files before you begin reinstalling Windows, even if you're reinstalling Windows on a hard disk partition. A clean installation replaces the current version of Windows and all personal files.

  If your motherboard supports AMT technology, you can download, install the drivers from this link.

  AMT: Intel® AMT Driver for Intel® motherboards

  http://Downloadcenter.Intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?&DwnldID=16936

  Note: This download is valid for the products listed below.

  Intel® card mother DB43LD

  Intel® card mother DQ43AP

  Intel® card mother DQ45CB

  Intel® card mother DQ45EK

  If the problem persists, I suggest you to contact Intel support. http://communities.Intel.com/Community/Tech

• External hard drive in the Device Manager but not in disk management

  So I have this external hard drive Western Digital 1 TB. I've had for over a year now and it was working fine. I would like to trade my XBox 360 and the computerregularly. Then one day I brought home, plugged into the computer and nothing. My friend and I couldn't understand anything. We have gone as far as removing the hard drive and put it directly into the computer. I have reviewed, that he has lost.

  Then yesterday, on a whim, I tried to connect it again to the USB port. It is presented in the Device Manager but says that its drivers have not been installed. Then, I changed the USB ports on the back of the computer and as if by magic, that this is once again. I had full access. Stupid (and you can see where this is going) did not immediately transfer anything off the hard drive. I'm looking for an image and listen to a song off of said hard drive when the drive went suddenly not recognized.

  I can see now the reader in the Manager of devices under disk drives, and USB devices. However it does not appear in the disk management window. And Yes, I checked as well the Productdocumentation upper and lower, that it is not listed. Go to the area where you assign drive letters not shown not be. Normally this is E:.

  I also tried to remove the UpperFilters registry in regedit. It was not to remove LowerFilters. Obviously, that didn't work or the other.

  I tried several cords and all my USB ports with no luck either.

  I went on the WD Web site, but they do not offer anything other than a partitioner that I would save rather than as a last resort as there are a number of things on the hard drive I want to save.

  So it's not like it's a new HD to be partitioned or an old man who comes out crapped. I know there's the data I just need to get home long enough to get what I need. Maybe I missed my window, but maybe I did not. Maybe someone can help. I'm at the end of my mind on this thing.

  Sounds like a problem of partition (maybe corrupted partition tables) if the device is recognized, but not the 'disk '.

  There are recovery/repair partition about tools.  Western Digital actually have some but I think that they are made for internal drives.

  If I were you, I start with WD and start looking for partition recovery/repair tools.  If this is the problem then it is the right kind of problem and you using the right type of solution can fix it easily.

  If this is not the case, some data recovery tools can help you recover some files even if you have to recreate a new partition, although I wish you much luck with this approach!

  Good luck whatever you try and make sure that you do not overwrite the what partition information, you have without making backups (many partition edititing software will offer backups)

• Hard drive shows in the Bios and Device Manager but not in disk management.

  I recently had a hard drive fail because of the excessive heat in the computer case (he also took a memory too). When I plug the drive as a secondary drive in any computer it will appear in the Bios and the Manager of devices, but not in disk management, nor can it be considered be as ZAR and Spinrite disk utility.

  The disc spins up and down when turned on and seems to work. Just trying to recover data from the disk, so I can put it on a new drive.

  Any ideas?

  If its not shown in disk management I would use this bootable HD to the utility check disk (probably all riders is set correctly?)

• Hard drive shows up in Device Manager, but not in 'my computer '.

  I have a Samsung HD103UI SATA hard drive in a dual docking station Thermaltake Black Widow hard drive. I connected it to my laptop via a USB port. It appears in Device Manager and says it's working properly. It however does not appear in my computer. I go to disk management and presents itself, he says "Dynamic Disk 1, invalid. If I right click on the drive, it asks if I want to convert it to base, but if I do that I will lose my data. I hooked this same configuration of my XP machine and it worked fine, no problem. How can I fix without basic conversion and how do I get it to appear in my computer?

  End to this problem, that I had the hard drive on the xp machine unload everything out of it and reformat the hard drive on my Vista laptop. I did once it worked fine and I can move it back from my xp and vista machine. It's the only way I could get this drive to work.

• gamepad Xbox 360 as seen in "Device Manager", but not recognized as "game controller": does not work in the game

  I connected my xbox 360 controller to my pc with the usb cable and downloaded the driver (I run XP Pro 32).  His does not work in-game.  I can see the controller in Device Manager (under the new group called xbox 360 devices) but it does not appear under "game controllers" in the control panel.  Im trying to use it with the Flight Simulator x.

  Hi Absolutemar,

  Welcome to the Microsoft Answers Community Forum site!

  In order to resolve your problem, please visit the below mentioned link.

  http://www.xbox360forum.com/Forum/

  Please perform the following steps also suggests:

  First we suggest you to download the Xbox 360 controller from the below mentioned link:

  http://www.Microsoft.com/hardware/gaming/ProductDetails.aspx

  Then install the Xbox 360 on your computer:

  Note You must install the software on your computer before you connect the gamepad Xbox 360 for Windows on your computer.

  To install the software, follow these steps:

  1. open the software that you downloaded from the Microsoft Windows gaming website or insert the Xbox 360 Controller for Windows installation disc in your computer's DVD or CD drive.

  If the screen does not appear automatically, click Start, click run, type the following command in the Open box and then click OK:

  DriveLetter : Setup

  For example, if the CD-ROM or DVD drive is drive E, type type, and then click OK.

  2. on the configuration screen, click install.

  3. follow the instructions in the Installation Wizard to complete the installation.

  Note You may be prompted to restart the computer.

  For more information about the Xbox 360 installation on your computer, visit the below mentioned link:

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/906347

  In this case, you need more information, you can visit the link below.

  http://www.Microsoft.com/games/en-us/community/pages/forums.aspx

  I hope this helps!

  Thank you best regards &,.

  Calogero - Microsoft technical support.
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• USB-6008 appears in Device Manager but not in MAX or Labview

  I use Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit and you want to use a USB-6008 in LabVIEW 8.5.1. The device appears under data acquisition devices in the Windows Device Manager. The flashing on the device, but the device does not appear in the Explorer of Measurement & Automation 8.7.1. am I missing something?

  He doubts.

  First, check the easy things... to refresh the list of devices to MAX and see if it comes to that.  I'm guessing you've already tried this, but it never hurts to check.

  My bet is that it's a database corrupted Max.  This happens from time to time.  Usually when I see it, the 'Dev1' always appears in LabVIEW if you plop down constant DAQ hardware or control.

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• Visible HDMI in "Device Manager" but not in "playback devices"... help please?

  HP Pavilion DV6-1245dx update to Windows 7 (from Vista).

  I had the problem of no sound on my TV with the HDMI connection. I had the brilliant idea to remove the driver and reinstall. The problem is that after I deleted the driver (do not know exactly what other that it was connected to the HDMI audio), the HDMI option as a playback device has disappeared. I clicked on "update driver software" (Intel High Definition Audio HDMI) in Device Manager (he said I had the current driver) and restarted. Yet, no HDMI option on the 'reading devices' screen. Any thoughts would be much appreciated!

  Thanks DP - K. I've updated the OP with model and noted the upgrade.

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• My CD/DVD drive will not appear in the Device Manager, but present in the BIOS.

  DevCon didn't find it. It will not open even if I don't get to Device Manager and check for changes to the system. I deleted the registry entries upper and lower limit. Any other suggestions? For additional emphasis, he does not show even in the Manager of devices so I cannot restore or reinstall the drivers from there. It might also help that I use Vista Home Premium on a Compaq Presario F755us.

  Hello

  (1) does the BIOS see the main hard disk drive or a secondary hard drive?

  (2) remember to make changes to the computer before the show?

  You know may not be not that most systems are set to show only the splash screen. If you go into the BIOS Setup, it should show the disks that have been detected on two primary and secondary IDE channels.

  Note: the basic procedure to change the setting of the disk controller is to restart your computer and enter the system BIOS. The most common method is to press F2 to enter Setup, (another PC may use a different key). On the BIOS screen, find the setting that offers the AHCI, ATA or IDE and RAID. If the parameter is set to AHCI, change the setting to ATA. Restart the PC on the Windows installation disc

  Warning: Incorrect settings in the system BIOS can cause your PC function incorrectly. If you are not familiar with the configuration of the BIOS of the system, you must contact the PC manufacturer for assistance.

  Try the steps in the following article and check if it helps.

  My drive does not appear in Windows Explorer

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/330140

  Registry warning: Important this section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems can occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you proceed with caution. For added protection, back up the registry before you edit it. Then you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click on the number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322756/

  You can also check the following items.

  CD drive or the DVD drive does not work as expected on a computer that you upgraded to Windows Vista: http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/929461

  Error: A required CD/DVD device driver is missing - when you boot Windows 7 or Windows Vista installation disk: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952951

• CD-ROM drive detected in BIOS and Device Manager but not Explorer or lag when you click

  The last time I tried to use my CD player, it worked very well. I recently got a game perfect state (checked on other computers, so it's good), and I can't install it because of the CD player.

  Already, it is detected by the BIOS and in Device Manager it's all updated with all its drivers and no yellow triangles.

  The rare opportunity that explore (thus, libraries in my case but nevertheless explorer.exe) fact feel the drive, I click on it and explore lagging until I opened the player and then I get the message "no disc in the drive (bah, I just opened the thing after you moved for hours)" I went to explore running for some time and eventually he listed things that were ready to write on a disk, not to read.

  Most of the time traveller feeling even the reader, even though Device Manager and BIOS a. Mr. Fix - It does not work either. They just keep running with nothing doesn't.

  On a side note, autorun does not start or when I put in the drive, so windows does not read the disc. The drive works perfectly as I see the LED flashes very quickly and spins the disc.

  Hello Izy - H,

  The CD/DVD drive may disappear if it has installed third-party filters. I suggest that you try the methods below to resolve this issue.

  Method 1:

  You can follow the link below and run the Fix - it who will automatically diagnose and repair problems with your CD or DVD drive when trying to read or burn media:

  http://support.Microsoft.com/GP/cd_dvd_drive_problems

  Method 2:

  You can also try to remove the filters manually:

  a. Click Start and then click all programs.

  b. click Accessories and then click Run.

  c. type regedit, and then click OK, if you are prompted for an administrator password or a confirmation, type the password or click on allow.

  d. in the navigation pane, search for, and then click the following registry subkey:

  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\ {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

  e. in the right pane, click UpperFilters.

  Note: You may also see an UpperFilters.bak registry entry. You don't have to delete this entry. Click UpperFilters. If you do not see the UpperFilters registry entry, you may still have to delete the LowerFilters registry entry. To do this, go to step h.

  f. in the Edit menu, click on delete.

  g. When prompted to confirm the deletion, click Yes.

  h. in the right pane, click LowerFilters.

  Note: If you do not see the LowerFilters registry entry, unfortunately this content cannot help you further. Go to the section "Next steps" to learn how you can find more solutions or more help on the Microsoft Web site.

  i. in the Edit menu, and click on delete.

  j. When you are prompted to confirm the deletion, click Yes.

  k. exit from the registry editor.

  a. restart the computer.

  Important: This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems can occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you proceed with caution. For added protection, back up the registry before you edit it. Then you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click on the number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

  322756 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322756 ) how to back up and restore the registry in Windows

  Thank you
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• New SSD is not showing in disk management, but does in the BIOS

  I just got a brand new CS1311 PNY 240 GB SSD at Amazon, and I hooked all with Y Molex connector and plug the sata cable in the third free port.  I went to format and partition so I can start adding games, but it does not appear.  I then stopped and went into the BIOS and it turns out that there is in the third SATA port.  But not in disk management.  Any ideas?  The third SATA port is not intended for a storage drive?  Should I change the SSD in ports SATA and the blu - ray player?  Manufacturing of blu - ray 3 instead of 2 port and the port of the SSD 2 instead of 3?

  I'm not trying to install windows on it or start with him, I just format and partition.  I want to just use it for games.  Any help would be appreciated.

  I have it.  Change port SATA worked.

• HP Pavilion 17-e049wm Device Manager does not see the amd radeon 8650g card.

  Windows 7 can not find the graphics card for the amd radeon 8650g.  I tried to install the drivers from AMD and they never appear in the Device Manager.  It only gives me "Standard VGA Graphics Adapter."  Windows Update will not update.  They say that it is current because it cannot find the radeon 8650g.  AMD Setup never shows the driver file during installation.  It installs all sorts of other things, but never the driver.  As if it does not find material.

  What is going on.

  Hello:

  Your laptop is not supported by HP for Windows 7.  There is no graphic drivers for W7 for it to HP.

  My only suggestion is to try the graphics drivers from the Lenovo G505s

  http://support.Lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?docid=DS035764