Lost my game port...Help!!!

My pc no longer recognizes my game port. Not sure what happened, or what I did, but I can't get it back. When I go into my Device Manager, I used to be able to see "Game Port" branched off in my "Sound, Video, and game controllers" tree. Now it's gone, and I don't see how to get it back, or re-install it or anything. What a mess. It started with the SOS demo (yuk), then I found out my Thrustmaster Nascar SuperSport wasn't evidently compatible with DirectX 7, so I took the advice of several folks, and tried to revert back to my previous DirectX version. Something went wrong somewhere, and now my pc doesn't even know it has a game port. Any suggestions? I'm going into driving withdrawl..... Burke Wells

Something like this happened to me a year or so ago. IIRC , I removed all references to the sound card in device manager, powered down , removed the card , rebooted without card and let Windows configure itself. Then I powered down again , put the sound card back in, rebooted and let windows plug and play find it. Made sure I had latest drivers at hand though they were still present in Windows/System folder. Once I did all this I had a game port again. Perhaps someone else could come up with a better way though..... Good luck David > My pc no longer recognizes my game port. Not sure what happened, or what I > did, but I can't get it back. When I go into my Device Manager, I used to be

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> able to see "Game Port" branched off in my "Sound, Video, and game > controllers" tree. Now it's gone, and I don't see how to get it back, or > re-install it or anything. > What a mess. It started with the SOS demo (yuk), then I found out my > Thrustmaster Nascar SuperSport wasn't evidently compatible with DirectX 7, > so I took the advice of several folks, and tried to revert back to my > previous DirectX version. Something went wrong somewhere, and now my pc > doesn't even know it has a game port. > Any suggestions? I'm going into driving withdrawl..... > Burke Wells

The only thing I can add to David's advice Is If your soundcard Is integrated with the motherboard you can disable sound in Bios, reboot and enable sound. Win should then recognize the gameport along with your soundcard. DN

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> Something like this happened to me a year or so ago. IIRC , I removed all > references to the sound card in device manager, powered down , removed the > card , rebooted without card and let Windows configure itself. Then I > powered down again , put the sound card back in, rebooted and let windows > plug and play find it. Made sure I had latest drivers at hand though they > were still present in Windows/System folder. Once I did all this I had a > game port again. Perhaps someone else could come up with a better way > though..... > Good luck > David > > My pc no longer recognizes my game port. Not sure what happened, or what

I > > did, but I can't get it back. When I go into my Device Manager, I used to

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> be > > able to see "Game Port" branched off in my "Sound, Video, and game > > controllers" tree. Now it's gone, and I don't see how to get it back, or > > re-install it or anything. > > What a mess. It started with the SOS demo (yuk), then I found out my > > Thrustmaster Nascar SuperSport wasn't evidently compatible with DirectX

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> > so I took the advice of several folks, and tried to revert back to my > > previous DirectX version. Something went wrong somewhere, and now my pc > > doesn't even know it has a game port. > > Any suggestions? I'm going into driving withdrawl..... > > Burke Wells

Also check control panel/multimedia/devices for the joystick-setting. AFAIK it's independent from the device-manager. Jens >My pc no longer recognizes my game port. Not sure what happened, or what I >did, but I can't get it back. When I go into my Device Manager, I used to be >able to see "Game Port" branched off in my "Sound, Video, and game >controllers" tree. Now it's gone, and I don't see how to get it back, or >re-install it or anything. <snip> --------------------------------------------- Remove "NOSPAM" before using my email-address