Can someone please explain to me why my Playstation 2 to USB controller adapter will just stop working?

[velz]

Last night it was working FINE. I stopped playing the game I was playing, and I went to bed .I left my PC on. I go to play the game again and notice the controller isnt working. I open up the game controllers thing in Windows and the controller is recognized yet it will not detect any button presses. I unplug the cord, and plug it back in, windows detects it, says its working. Still not detecting button presses. I reboot and still nothing.

 

[Tom Tancredi]

Does it need to be charged (wasn't getting charge from USB?). Batteries are dead? Did you try (if WIndows 7) Restore, and Restore to a Earlier time, to see if maybe that might clear the issue?

 

[velz]

Does it need to be charged (wasn't getting charge from USB?). Batteries are dead? Did you try (if WIndows 7) Restore, and Restore to a Earlier time, to see if maybe that might clear the issue?

No it doesnt need to be recharged. I also really dont feel like restoring 24 hours prior just to sort this out and would rather try finding a real solution to it.

 

[Tom Tancredi]

Okay step back. 1) did you try a different USB port? - Same different result?
2) Did you try a different USB cable? - Same different result?
3) did you try a different PS2 controller ? - same different result?
4) did you try the USB cable and controller in another computer? Same different results?

1) Determines if that USB port is broken or not
2) Determines if the cable is broken
3) Determines if the PS2 controller failed
4) Determines if the USB and controller in another system work together (may be mismatched items).

If your hardware is all working right in other systems, nothing works in Windows 7 no matter how you tried, there is no 'real solution' like type a command or reset a reg setting. You should just restore 24hours prior (only affects PROGRAMS no DATA files - like where you last saved in your game). Suck it up and deal, this is the simpliest solution for Windows.