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Article #81203Re: Joystick port stopped working
From: Roger Squires
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 00:00
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 00:00
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Also, Descent is sensitive to which Joystick port you use (D1/D2 anyway) so look here: Find the Gameport Interface or Joystick port in Controlpanel/System/DeviceManager and check that it is set to 201. If not, set it there then try your joystick again. rms rsqu...@flash.net "PyroMan" <fr...@termstua.com> wrote in message news:3950E1B0.A37DD8E6@termstua.com... > I have posted this at the Creative support groups, and noone there could > help me. So I try my luck here. > I have a SB Live! Value, where the joystick-port suddenly stopped > working. One day I joined a game, and my ship didn't move an inch! The > stick in question is a Logitech WED. So, here is what I tried to do: > > Tried the stick on my other computer, and the stick works just fine. > Tried my other stick on the SB Live!. No action! > Removed the soundcard, rebooted, installed card in a different PCI-slot. > No action!! > Removed soundcard, uninstalled all soundcard and joystick > drivers/software. Rebooted, and installed soundcard and drivers from > fround up. Again no action!!! > > And I have not installed any new software or hardware the last two weeks > before this happened. > Anyone have a tip for me, or do I have to go out and get a new card? > > Pyroman > >
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From: "Roger Squires" <rsqu...@flash.net> Subject: Re: Joystick port stopped working Date: 2000/06/22 Message-ID: <Hso45.1844$oW3.167310@news.flash.net> X-Deja-AN: 637616020 References: <3950E1B0.A37DD8E6@termstua.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 X-Complaints-To: ab...@flash.net X-Trace: news.flash.net 961680295 216.215.104.66 (Thu, 22 Jun 2000 08:24:55 CDT) Organization: FlashNet Communications, http://www.flash.net X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 08:24:55 CDT Newsgroups: alt.games.descent MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit