Re: installing a Thrustmaster Force Feedback Racing Wheeel on Win 95 serial port??

Hi, I had exactly the same problem yesterday. Finally I have done it by removing all installed drivers and steering wheel devices that Win95 created. Then I powered off (contrary to what manual says) the wheel and booted Win95. This time it didn't find the wheel, so I could go into the game controllers and add the wheel myself pointing to the CD for the drivers. Then I rebooted again (with power on this time) and it almost worked. Now the only problem is that the wheel is not recognized until I turned it, so every time I booted up I have to go to game controllers and just pressing refreshing while turning the wheel and after that in Thrustmaster's control panel move the wheel around (otherwise GPL doesn't use its full range) Anybody knows solution for this problem? Alex. [email hidden] (David Golding) wrote in <[email hidden]>:

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>Hi, >I'm trying to install the Thrustmaster Force Feedback Racing Wheeel on a >windows 95 machine. If I follow the instructions to the letter, it asks >you to plug in the controller with the machine off (serial port), boot >up the machine, when windows finds the new hardware type in e:\win95. >I've done this with my cd drive being f. So f:\win95. It can find the >software drivers, you can only do this by typing in F:\. This installs >the software and I'm STILL getting the message "not connected". There is >nothing faulty with the wheel, I could get it load correctly with a >laptop. > >Why doesn't it work with my PC?? > >Anyone come across this?? > >Cheers > >Dave > > > >

I had the same problem as well. Simply go into Control Panel, Gaming Options, remove the driver, then add it again. No rebooting. Worked for me.... -Travis "Alex" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> Hi, > > I had exactly the same problem yesterday. Finally I have > done it by removing all installed drivers and steering > wheel devices that Win95 created. Then I powered off > (contrary to what manual says) > the wheel and booted Win95. This time it didn't find > the wheel, so I could go into the game controllers > and add the wheel myself pointing to the CD for the > drivers. Then I rebooted again (with power on this time) > and it almost worked. Now the only problem is that > the wheel is not recognized until I turned it, so every > time I booted up I have to go to game controllers > and just pressing refreshing while turning the wheel > and after that in Thrustmaster's control panel move > the wheel around (otherwise GPL doesn't use its full range) > Anybody knows solution for this problem? > > Alex. > > > [email hidden] (David Golding) wrote in > <[email hidden]>: > > >Hi, > >I'm trying to install the Thrustmaster Force Feedback Racing Wheeel on a > >windows 95 machine. If I follow the instructions to the letter, it asks > >you to plug in the controller with the machine off (serial port), boot > >up the machine, when windows finds the new hardware type in e:\win95. > >I've done this with my cd drive being f. So f:\win95. It can find the > >software drivers, you can only do this by typing in F:\. This installs > >the software and I'm STILL getting the message "not connected". There is > >nothing faulty with the wheel, I could get it load correctly with a > >laptop. > > > >Why doesn't it work with my PC?? > > > >Anyone come across this?? > > > >Cheers > > > >Dave > > > > > > > > >