Hi am building a little PC for my son.

Nothing to hard in that lol,

BUT

I want it to play some if not all his old Dos games while running windows XP

Ive got a program to run sounds in Dos

Trouble is I want to use the old style 15 pin joystick port so should work in Dos (this program I've got has got an enable joystick option)

Problem is had an old SB card lying arround and when installed all worked EXCEPT gameport (joystick)

In the system/hardware section it shows there is a problem with it, it is giving an error 12 code (shared resources) the resources it was using was 0200- something

Went out and bought just a cheapie sound card with gameport, installed it all and same problem except resources used this time are 0201-0201


have viewed my PC by connection with viewing hidden devices and gone thru them all and cant find anything using them resources

This is on a fresh install of XP with the soundcard being the only drivers installed (not even the graphics card ones) (but have now installed these)


Any help as how to get this gameport working as that the only reason for not using onboard sound (which the sound prog ive got did work in Dos games ) even bought a usb to 15 pin gameport converter which nearly works lol, it did give joystick control in windows games but not in the old dos ones, and seeing as some of his fav games are Dos would really like to beat this


If you need any reports of the PC set up plz ask and tell me how to get what you want and will post the details up.

Just gonna go have a quick look through the MB manual to see if can find anything in there


THANKS

Steve

Oh PS was going thru Creative help and sent them some NFO file of my system they asked for and tried turning off starup group items which didnt help and moving card to different (all) other PCI slots which still didnt help, also tried altering different bios settings like disabling second ide port floppy lpt1 com1 changing irq's of slot card in, still no go


PLZ HELP lol