gamepad joystick always off-center

[alexfue12]

I have a game elements pc recoil gamepad from wal-mart. I plug it in, and everything's fine. But I always seem to move forward in games without press up on the left joystick, so I went into calibration and it always seems that when i move the left joystick, instead of bouncing back to (127,127) it goes to (140,102). I have tried it on another computer and it works just perfectly. I have windows xp pro sp2 and the other computer has Windows XP Home w/ SP2. How can I correct this?

[Stryc9]

Since this post is now quite old I don't know if you still have this gamepad or if you've resolved your problem but I would try calibrating the gamepad.

Go to your Control Panel and select Game Controllers then if you didn't install the divers it should say "4-Axis 12 button gamepad", make sure it's selected then click the properties button. Another dialog will appear with a Calibrate tab, you want to go to that tab and calibrate the gamepad there then your problem should be solved.

[patio]

I'm sure he will reply shortly...gamers are a dedicated lot...