I'm about ready to smash my PC here. System specs are : XP2800 Barton, 1Gig DDR333, FX5700 Ultra, ASUS A7N8X-X, Windows XP Pro
For the last 90 minutes I've been trying to get my old Microsoft Sidewinder 3D Pro to work. I have it connected to the gameport on my soundcard. It used to work on my old motherboard's gameport, but not my old soundcards. I have different motherboard and soundcard now, and the mobo doesn't have a gameport. So I am trying to use the port on my new sound card.
However, it keeps saying "Not connected" when it is. I've been trauling the internet trying to find out how to get the damn thing to work. To begin with I had two instances of "Standard Gameport" in Device Manager. I removed one but it kept appearing - so I checked the net to find I had to disable my onboard gameport. So I did that, and onboard midi (aswell as Onboard sound which was disabled before). Now one instance dissapeared, but now on the other one (which I'm pretty sure is the one on my sound card) I'm getting "This device cannot find enough free resources that it can use. (Code 12)" and under resources I'm getting "Input/Output Range 0201 - 0201 not available." and it wont let me change anything. So, I took another trip to the internet and read to check whether it was sharing resources with any other device by going into device manager and View>Resources by connection. So I did, and there it is under I/O on 00000201 - 00000201, all buy itself. Nothing else is sharing this resource. I have restarted between attempts at solutions but nothing has fixed it.
Anyone have any ideas? I am thinking of just buying a USB pad while I have some hair left, but I would rather get this one fixed.
Thanks In Advance
For the last 90 minutes I've been trying to get my old Microsoft Sidewinder 3D Pro to work. I have it connected to the gameport on my soundcard. It used to work on my old motherboard's gameport, but not my old soundcards. I have different motherboard and soundcard now, and the mobo doesn't have a gameport. So I am trying to use the port on my new sound card.
However, it keeps saying "Not connected" when it is. I've been trauling the internet trying to find out how to get the damn thing to work. To begin with I had two instances of "Standard Gameport" in Device Manager. I removed one but it kept appearing - so I checked the net to find I had to disable my onboard gameport. So I did that, and onboard midi (aswell as Onboard sound which was disabled before). Now one instance dissapeared, but now on the other one (which I'm pretty sure is the one on my sound card) I'm getting "This device cannot find enough free resources that it can use. (Code 12)" and under resources I'm getting "Input/Output Range 0201 - 0201 not available." and it wont let me change anything. So, I took another trip to the internet and read to check whether it was sharing resources with any other device by going into device manager and View>Resources by connection. So I did, and there it is under I/O on 00000201 - 00000201, all buy itself. Nothing else is sharing this resource. I have restarted between attempts at solutions but nothing has fixed it.
Anyone have any ideas? I am thinking of just buying a USB pad while I have some hair left, but I would rather get this one fixed.
Thanks In Advance
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