First post, by bmwsvsu
Well, I've exhausted everything I know of to try to troubleshoot this, and I'm just not having any luck.
My setup is an MS-7145 Motherboard (socket 754) and in one of the PCI slots, I have a PCI sound card (an ALS-4000-based card). Sound works fine. In the device manager, the gameport shows up fine. Everything LOOKS like it should work. But when I plug in a controller into the game port and add a controller, it says "not connected."
I have tried:
-a different one of the same sound card
-a different sound card altogether (an Yamaha ymf744-based card)
-several different gamepads
-using different PCI slots
-changing resources
-changing controller ID's
-Windows 98, Windows XP, real DOS.
-the same sound cards and gamepads on other motherboards and they work just fine there
So I'm at a loss. Doesn't matter the OS or even the sound card, even though everything looks correct in the device manager, it just flat-out refuses to detect any conencted gamepads.
Anybody ever run into an issue like this before? Any suggestions? Or is there just something weird going on with this particlular model of motherboard?
