Viewsonic VX 1945-wm-3 not detecting iPod Mini 4GB 2nd gen

All,
Ignore the suggestion from kgism397 as Windows XP and Vista include the required USB drivers for and iPod. I was having the same issues mentioned above with the Viewsonic VX2245wm monitor with the iPod docking station. I have a 5th generation iPod. When I used the USB ports on the base of the monitor, (w/ Apple's included USB cable) the iPod was recognized. When I attempted to put the iPod in the docking station, I get the "Device not recognized" error. After a lot of searching and trying out different drivers, I discovered it wasn't a driver issue at all. There is a little plastic guard that sits in the docking station. (there is a different piece for 3rd gen, 4th gen, iPod Nan, etc) Just remove the plastic piece all together, and then set your iPod in the docking station. Apparently the plastic piece was preventing my iPod from making a solid connection with the docking port. Immediately my iPod was recognized and synced up just fine!

I have the same problem, and there seems to be no appropriate drivers for this, or at least, none of the drivers I have used work.

USB device not recognised" - means windows needs driver to function. As soon as you connect USB device it check driver in cache it is available it detect smoothly you can perform else it generate errors.

first to instal driver from CD