Kinect not connecting to Dashboard

[brainiac680]

We had the kinect functioning properly before, but due to a misunderstanding, all the relevant files were deleted. I'm fairly certain we've reinstalled everything necessary, yet when we plug the kinect in while running the driver station, the diagnostics light remains grey with a "kinect not plugged in" or red with a "timed out" or "not ready" message. refreshing the server doesn't work.

We have the kinect sdk and related components installed, and the sample skeletal viewer works fine.

I've tried reinstalling the kinect server, and that doesn't work either.