Game port problems with Via AC 97 and Force Feedback Wheel.

I have just discovered that my new Asus A7V133 with the Via AC 97 sound card is incompatible with my Microsoft SideWinder Force Feedback Wheel. Is there a way to work around this issue. Can I get a game port to USB adapter and still use it? Vinny

don't know what the inconpatiblity issue is...but just disable the onboard sound and get a dedicated sound card. The SB Lives are around 70 dollars (US) and the there are other alternatives like the GameTheatre by (I think) Hercules I have the A7A266 version(with a chipset made by Ali rather than Via) of your mb...tried to avoid known issues and have had allllll sorts of trouble since... dave henrie "Vinny" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:aeIn8.4377$[email hidden]... > I have just discovered that my new Asus A7V133 with the Via AC 97 soundcard > is incompatible with my Microsoft SideWinder Force Feedback Wheel. Isthere

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> a way to work around this issue. Can I get a game port to USB adapter and > still use it? > > > > Vinny > >

Ahhhhh, thanks for that advice. That's a great idea. I never thought about that. "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:0MIn8.124229$q2.13607@sccrnsc01... > don't know what the inconpatiblity issue is...but just disable theonboard > sound and get a dedicated sound card. The SB Lives are around 70 dollars > (US) and the there are other alternatives like the GameTheatre by (Ithink) > Hercules I have the A7A266 version(with a chipset made by Ali rather than > Via) of your mb...tried to avoid known issues and have had allllll sortsof

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> trouble since... > dave henrie > "Vinny" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:aeIn8.4377$[email hidden]... > > I have just discovered that my new Asus A7V133 with the Via AC 97 sound > card > > is incompatible with my Microsoft SideWinder Force Feedback Wheel. Is > there > > a way to work around this issue. Can I get a game port to USB adapter

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> > still use it? > > > > > > > > Vinny > > > > > >

R U running XP? Many gameport devices are not compatible with XP, I've not heard of a mobo that had this problem. -- Biz "Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand alloys and compositions and,......things with molecular structures,....and the....." - Ash Vinny <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:aeIn8.4377$[email hidden]... > I have just discovered that my new Asus A7V133 with the Via AC 97 sound card > is incompatible with my Microsoft SideWinder Force Feedback Wheel. Is there > a way to work around this issue. Can I get a game port to USB adapter and > still use it? > > > > Vinny > >

I initially thought my old Gameport MSFF was incompatible with my M/Board too, until I realised that the force feedback needs to make use of the MIDI port and that was disabled in the BIOS by default. Turning that back on and ensuring that the built-in Soundblaster emulation was OFF was all I needed to do to get my wheel working quite nicely in Windows XP (at least for GPL and SCGT). P.S. Check that the Gameport itself is enabled in the BIOS too - it is disabled by default on the A7V133. -- - Peter Ogden Perth, Western Australia "Vinny" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:aeIn8.4377$[email hidden]... > I have just discovered that my new Asus A7V133 with the Via AC 97 sound card > is incompatible with my Microsoft SideWinder Force Feedback Wheel. Is there > a way to work around this issue. Can I get a game port to USB adapter and > still use it? > > > > Vinny > >