Gameport problems

[noman]

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I've got an old gameport device I'd really rather not replace so would like
to use this on my XP pro/98SE on a creative pci sound card gameport dual
booting system. As XP has difficulty with gameports I figured a dual boot
system would sort this out.

Unfortunately it's not recognised in 98SE on dual boot system but is
recognised on a stand alone 98SE machine.

Any ideas?

Noman

 

[sunny]

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"Noman" <noman@noway.com> wrote in message
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> I've got an old gameport device I'd really rather not replace so would
> like
> to use this on my XP pro/98SE on a creative pci sound card gameport dual
> booting system. As XP has difficulty with gameports I figured a dual boot
> system would sort this out.
>
> Unfortunately it's not recognised in 98SE on dual boot system but is
> recognised on a stand alone 98SE machine.
>
> Any ideas?

From my "fix it? archives
Usually, deleting and reinstalling the gameport drivers does the trick.

To delete your gameport drivers:

Click on start-settings-control panel.
Double click on system
Click on device manager
Double click on sound, video, and game controllers.
Highlight any mention of a gameport or a joystick and click "remove"
Reboot the computer.
When windows reboots, it will reinstall the devices you just removed
provided your gameport or soundcard are plug and play.
If not, you may have to add them manually. Either way, make sure you
have your Windows 95/98/ME CD handy.

Advanced users only:

You may want to go further by deleting the registry entry for your gameport.
This will perform a more perfect uninstall of the driver.
Note that by following these instructions you do so at your own risk.

To perform a registry edit on your gameport:

Click on Start, run and type in regedit
Double click on HKEY_local_machine
Double click on System
Double click on CurrentControlSet
Double click on control
Double click on Media Resources
Single click on joystick
Press delete on your keyboard to delete this key
Now, reboot and let Windows re-detect your sound card's gameport.
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The last and most common cause of this error message is the existence
of more than one controller in Gaming Options.
In most situations you can only have one controller listed in the
Gaming Options control panel. This same device must also exist under
ID Controller #1 in the advanced tab. If you have more than one
controller listed you must delete the one currently not plugged
into the computer. That will fix the problem.

 

[noman]

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No none of that did the trick.

Perhaps the few XP files that manifest themselves on the 98SE partition are
stopping the gameport from working in the normal 98 way.

I have an onboard gameport/midi connector (actually on the mobo not a
standard gameport) on my Asus A7N8X-X but no matter if it's on any setting
in Bios the analogue steering wheel is not detected.

Noman

 

[Guest]

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On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 23:42:41 -0000, "Noman" <noman@noway.com> wrote:

>No none of that did the trick.
>
>Perhaps the few XP files that manifest themselves on the 98SE partition are
>stopping the gameport from working in the normal 98 way.

I'm only responding to the statement above. Perhaps you don't have
the 2 operating systems adequately isolated from each other. The way
I have it has the two OS on completely separate hidden FROM EACH OTHER
partitions. Yet after booting into either one, all the remaining
partitions are completely accessible from the chosen OS partition.
IOW, when I boot (using Partition Magic's Boot Manager) into Win 98SE,
I cannot see anything on the XP partition. And vice versa.

Just as a hunch, you possibly are not using something like Boot Magic,
but rather something included with Windows. That may be your problem.

Olin McDaniel





>
>I have an onboard gameport/midi connector (actually on the mobo not a
>standard gameport) on my Asus A7N8X-X but no matter if it's on any setting
>in Bios the analogue steering wheel is not detected.
>
>Noman
>
>

 

[noman]

Archived from groups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim (More info?)

I too can't see the XP partitions but I did use the Windows partition setup.

Noman