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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: diamondgeezer on October 21, 2003, 12:57:45 pm
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Okay, so last week I fried my motherboard and, it turns out, my soundcard. I basically conceeded that it had been a ****ty week and was just grateful that I didn't get hit by a bus on the weekend to round it all off. I was annoyed when my new mobo (Asus A7N8X-X) turned up without a gameport, as it meant that I had to wait for my new soundcard to make an apperance before I could get back flying.
Now, my new Creative 4.1 PCI soundblaster turned up today. I plugged 'er in, and everything seems fine apart from the damned gameport. It claims to be unable to use the resources specified, though it won't tell me what device it's clashing with and a manual inspection of my resources has turned up no suspects. The mobo BIOs claims to have a gameport which can use 0201 or 0209, but the damn thing is physically not there. Disabling the phantom onboard gameport does nothing. The soundcard gameport is supposed to use 0200-0207, so why it refuses to use 0201 like the onboard is beyond me. I've tried both the XP default drivers and the latest stuff from the Creative website. The same model of card and the same stick worked fine with my old A7V8X-X.
Any takers? I'm getting severe altitude withdrawl symptoms here...
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:nervous:
*backs away slowly*
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uhh yank the card and try another one? if that dosent work your mobos bios is ****ed up or your mobo is ****ed up ... update bios?
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*cries*
Okay. My housemate has an identical stick, which runs fine in his USB port via an adapter. We plugged my stick in to his USB and it worked perfectly. We plugged his stick in to my USB and it worked perfectly. We plugged my stick in to my USB... AND IT SAYS USB DEVICE NOT ****ING RECOGNISED.
I MEAN WHAT THE **** IS THIS? This is without doubt the stupidest sequence of events I have ever seen.
Oh, and before anyone says owt, I suggested swaping sticks with the guy but he refused, claiming that he was a bastard.
I'm going to go and find some small children to vent my frustration on.
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Seems like a stupid idea, but it can work:
Have your tried to change the sequence of your cards (it actually matters which card goes into which slot IIRC)?
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No. I may try it tomorrow if I can last that long without chucking the damn box out the window
[EDIT] Oh God... now my none stick-swapping house'mate' has started playing Delta Force Land Warrior. Bah, I'm rapidly running out of things to like about him.
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That's an Nforce 2 mobo, right?
Standard Stuff, update drivers for everything.
It sounds like your stick doesn't like the Mobo.