Games controller stopped working

[Penguin]

Hi All, I am after some advice on getting a games controller working again...

When I bought my SW150P and HEQ5pro off Astro-buy-sell, the previous owner also gave me the Saitek wired game controller he used with it.. I then bought a wireless controller with a USB dongle, get it all set up in EQMod and used it for a couple of years without problems. Then we moved house and I've only just started using the rig again. I think the wireless controller is actually dead so I tried the original wired one. No luck. So I bought a generic controller off ebay. Again, no luck. Device Manager says it is connected and working and that the drivers are up to date but  the gamepad configration dialog gives '---' for all controls and nothing seems to work.

Can anyone offer any advice?