game ports in windows 2000, joystick not connected

[Erick Merganser]

this question has been asked before, it seems...

i have a system running windows 2000 pro with service pack 4
installed. the conexant pci input device (game port) is installed
properly, however when a joystick is plugged into the game port, the
status in the gaming options applet still shows as "not connected".

i have tried several other sound cards, isa gameport cards, etc, all
with the same problem. i did read that this was addressed as a problem
with gameenum.sys in sp2, but i still have the same problems.

the joystick is a known working joystick, it works just fine under
win98 on other machines, and did on this one until the upgrade to
windows 2000 pro. it's just a generic radioshack flight yoke with
throttle and pov.

in the device manager, the conexant pci input device shows a memory
range of DE000000-DE000FFF, and nothing else. the standard game ports
that i had installed previously shows an io range of 0200-0207.

i've done the whole uninstall/reinstall drivers song and dance, to no
avail.

has anyone found a solution to this problem?

thanks,
erick

 

[Joshua Smith [MSFT]]

Do you have more than one gameport on the system? Having more than one
gameport tends to mess things up. Also, the gameport is most often just a
component of the sound card. Some were implemented well others were not.
Sometimes you can even have a fully functioning joystick until sound starts
playing. Then processing the sound robs the gameport of its bandwidth. You
mention having tried several other cards, were any of them Sound Blaster
Live!? My suspicion though is that even though your gameport isn't reporting
any errors it isn't configured correctly if it doesn't have an IO range. Can
you attach a Dxdiag report here for me? It may indicate why there is a
problem.

DXDIAG:
1. Click Start -> Run
2. Type "dxdiag" without the quotes and press Ok.
3. In the DirectX Diagnostic tool click "Save All Information..."


Joshua Smith
DirectInput Test Lab
Microsoft