[MikeFuryXP]

I have a usb keyboard, usb netgear wireless adapter and a 1 year old tesun pc game controller connected on the back of my pc.
Last weekend I was working on a game project and using my controller to play the game.
About 30 minutes into testing the game I hear the usb sound turn it self off and on trying to to readd my controller.
I didn't pay much attention to it until friday night where my usb connectors were constantly being disconnected and reconnected in vista, in the process it knocked out my keyboard and wireless adapter temporarily.
I did a chkdsk in vista and found some problems it fixed some of them, but it said the rundll32 had gotten corrupted and could not make repairs until that annoying windows vista user account was enabled...
I did that and I installed a new updated chipset driver my mobo and usb kernals at 4:00am this morning.
What exactly is the problem ? I would use system mechanic 8 to see what the problem is but my six month trial expired in may and I don't 29.99 to give them right now as I am trying to pay off some medical bills and some other major stuff.

[Mak213]

When you ran check disk did you use the /r /f parameters? If not do so.

Vista doesnt have a repair feature so if it is kernel corruption, you are going to have to reinstall.

[MikeFuryXP]

Ok when I get home in about 2 hours I'll recheck that again.
If it is kernal corruption I will have to reinstall again ?

If thats the case I'll do a clean install if it happens again it will be the last time I look at vista ever again until windows 7 becomes released.

[Mak213]

Okay no offense...but seriously you dont seem to understand that this is not Vista's fault. Vista on its own is perfect. It is something you are doing, a combination of the software you are installing or running or something like that which is causing this error.

I have run Vista for 18 months. I never had to reinstall as many times as you have. Not even running Beta Software or the Beta Service Packs. I have tried hacks on it, tweaks and everything else. Nothing has made any of my Vista installs as unstable as yours are.

So either it is a combination of your hardware with conflicting drivers, or the software you install which is causing this. As Vista would not be this way on its own.

Sorry to break it to you as well. Win7 is based off of Vista. It uses much of the Vista code. So if you have this much trouble with Vista, i wouldnt look forward to Win7 as it is still Vista code. Just refined for better user abilities.

[MikeFuryXP]

I hope thats not insult. LOL.
Seriously though, I have had vista on this pc for almost 2 months nothing has gone wrong with it except the USB hardware and "YES" kernals ****ing up.
This all started last sunday when I inserted a TESUN game controller, and I had game which I was working on and cannot mentioned hear because it is considered a little bit illegal here working on dos and windows xp mode sp2.
Ever since then only the USB on the motherboard started to get wacky, windows vista related it to a rundll32 last night and this afternoon.
I don't get on my pc and put any kind of junk on their to make it go beserk for no reason.
I highly consider my pc a great investment and I know what kinds of trouble or crap that can easily screw it up or kill it in a heart beat.
Before the end of april I had xp on their for a full year without the aggrevation that some of vista does to me.
So please don't tell me "I" am the one making problems on the vista OS when it clearly isn't me doing this.

[Mak213]

Well the problem is exactly what i stated. That controller doesnt have Vista Drivers. So it installed generic drivers to the system which caused your issues. From what i see they never released Vista Drivers.

You are trying to force a device that is not compatible to work on the system. So yeah it will be very buggy when you do that.

So yes it is you since you are trying to do something with the OS that it is not designed to do. You did not research to make sure that the controller could work. You did not check to make sure that there are drivers for Vista. You just plugged it in and expected it to work.

So yes i am saying that it is you, cause it is. Every OS operates off of drivers for the hardware. You are operating with drivers that are not proper for the system. Any OS, even XP which you say works so well, will falter when anyone tries to do this.

The reason why it worked in XP, shocking enough, there are working XP Drivers for your controller. hence why when using it, it didnt cause these issues.

Get a controller that has proper Vista drivers and you will not come across these issues.

[MikeFuryXP]

Thanks Mak.
I am on ebay.com getting ready to buy a more stable controller.
Wasn't angry at you I was frustated over this USB problem that should be fixed earlier unplugged the controller and vista has stopped fussing at controller problem.

[Mak213]

I can understand your frustration. I have been there more than my fair share of times. In all honesty your best bet will be to get a XBOX 360 controller.

There are working drivers for XP, vista and Win7 right now. For both the wired and wireless. Not to mention since it is a M$ product you know that as long as the XBOX is around they will have drivers for their OS. The controller has worked in Win7 through out the Beta.

While it may not be ideal for you and your gaming style. It is worth the investment.