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Plugged in my MIDI controller today, only it wasn't registering. A prompt comes up telling me "One of the USB devices attached to the computer has malfunctioned, and Windows does not recognize it". I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers but no luck.

What does this mean? Is it dead? I've only had it a month ffs. Don't even have the receipt.

What is it exactly?
What drivers you using?
Do other devices work in the USB slot?
Does the device say the same thing when in other slots?
Is it USB 1.0, 2.0 or 3.0?
Does it light up in any way when plugged in?

-It's an Akai LPK25
-Drivers for what? The controller? Whatever it installs automatically.
-Yeah, my MP3 player connects fine
-Yeah same in every slot
-Either 2.0 or 3.0, only a year old Laptop so should be the latest
-Yes, briefly lights up for half a second when connected

Appreciate the response man, I've tried the support forum but they seem a little slow in getting back.

Done a bit of googling, seems to be probs with wdma-usb files in windows.

leave the device plugged in and go to your device manager (right click My Comp > Manage), and see if anything is missing drivers, you can usually tell by a little yellow warning icon next to the device, it will most likely be in the "sounds video and game controllers" tree.

If its there, right click it and update driver software, choose to browse to the driver yourself, click "have disk" and use my files, im on windows 7 32bit and not had any probs with these drivers, i have a m-audio oxygen8 and a NI Audio Kontrol 1.

heres the files - http://www.mediafire.com/?j9h7jx4m9obyiac

just unrar the folder to where you want then point the driver wizard to the .inf file in the folder.

if its not showing up in device manager, or you are not on a windows machine, then god knows. hope this helps anyway.

Na no look man, when I try that it's telling me it's already updated to the latest drivers. Then when I uninstall them and reconnect it installs them again automatically. Really appreciate your help tho.

Guess it's just bust or something.

I believe there is a 10 midi device max on windows systems. There is some situation where windows recognizes each time you plug in your midi device as a new device. Hit that 10 max and you're out of luck. I think it is a stretch that you are having this problem but it is one possibility. Fix is to go into the registry, and delete all the midi entries. Google it for exacts on all this. I've had to do this, but I have a lot of usbmidi devices, and I was swapping them around between different ports.