Minor development that may help some of you clever people out there (just confusing me more )

Had a look on the MB manufacturers site, and was reading thru the Bios updates.

They up to about 10 now, BUT on the second revision there is an update to REMOVE Midi option from the bios, so I flashed to that, and lo and behold now in my bios there is options to change addresses or disable Midi AND gameports. (no port on MB BTW)

I tried to enable gameport at address 201 and a new gameport appeared in windows at address 201 with no conflicts, but my original one was still there on the same address with conflicts, tried joystick anyway but wouldnt work tried disabling the conflicting one and still nothing (bear in mind what I think is that the joystick is pluged into the souncard port which is the one with conflicts so doesnt then see the stick).

Anyways tried various disablings of both ports and different bios address settings for the gameport AND Midi settings but still no go.

So my thinking now is that they are reserved on the MB somehow either if I disable them doest allow my sound card to use them or if I enable them then creates conflicts and the MB wins.

can anyone shed any light on what/where the addresses are and what they mean
Game port= disabled/201/209
Midi Port= disabled/330/300/290 all at irq 10

Also does anyone know of a soundcard that has an adjustable address setting allowable for the gameport.

This is really begining to bug me now hate being beaten


Steve