Oh Joystick...Where art thou?!

[ashrafkadry]

Hi everyone

first of all merry Xmass to everyone and happy new year. Second, I gotta deep !@#$

of a problem, I've recently installed a Gigabyte GA-60xet board based on Intel's

i815ep chipset with a Pentium III 1GHz processor. The installation process went okay,

and now after I've installed everything into my computer, I opened the "gaming

option" tab under the control panel, and try to configure my joystick,which is a

Microsoft Sidewinder Precision pro, and I found that the computer can't see the

joystick, no matter what I do, the computer just cant' see. The computer says its not

connected, although its connected well in its port. By the way this type of

motherboards comes with anlready installed sound card that has its gameport and

everything else in an expansion sound card, and there's bios option of disabling

it,and that's what I did exactly. The only gameport that should be working fine is the

one attached to expansion sound card, not the built-in one. And the sound card's

drivers are installed properly.



Now what can I do to make the computer see the joystick

 

[BadThad]

Did you try a different joystick just to make sure it's not dead? What shows up in device manager? Did you remove all the original sound devices from device manager before installing the new card? You could try totally removing ALL sound devices and rebooting. Windows should detect the add in card if the onboard stuff is disabled.

 

[masterc]

I had a similar kind of problem... only with a standard MS Sidewinder.
It has to do with the MS Sidewinder and DirectX...
If you go to the Microsoft website and search the site for MS sidewinder you find that you are not alone. They had some suggestions...
I ended up choosing a Thrustmaster joystick (in the joystick setup option, in contorl panel) with my MS sidewinder. Then it worked.

Hope this helps (Go to the website... it explains it better)

 

[CStroman]

Are you using the gameport or USB?

 

[Tates]

Did you load up the Sidewinder software?

 

[ashrafkadry]

Hi everyone

A big thank you to each and everyone of you for your reply and Merry Xmass and a happy new year to all of you. To answer your question Tates, I did load up the sidewinder software, and also the problem existed. CStroman, I'm only using an ordinary gameport. Masterc, I've tried your solution,and guess what?....It worked...hey. I just fooled the computer and told him that I have two Sidewinder of the same type, and the computer told me that one of them is not connected and the other one is OK.( what a fluke is this machine). Badthad, actually I didnot a different joystick,because I was sure that the computer was wrong, because the joystick was (physically) connected to the computer, and no problem appeared in that. I also tried deleting all the sound devices and it didn't work, you know I was afraid that the machine was only able to see the gameport on the built in sound card and not on the expansion sound card, but this seemed useless due to the fact that I have disabled the internal sound card. The only way to deal with a hallucinating computer is only done by hallucinating. which I did, as masterc said, convince the computer that you have two joysticks from the " game options" under the control panel. and that's it.

Best Regards to all of you