PDPI L4 Anomaly

I followed the install instructions precisely. Disconnected my sound card, rebooted, and ran Testport. As it's supposed to, it indicated no gameport detected. So far, so good. Shut the computer down and installed the L4 in the ISA slot. Rebooted and ran Testport again. Of course it indicated Legacy Mode OK, test digital mode Board ID, yada, yada, yada. Sound card's still uninstalled, Testport detected the L4 like it's supposed to and I then installed the L4 setup program and drivers per the instructions. Rebooted, again without the sound card. Everything's still peachy. Shut down and installed the sound card. Of couse Win98 wants to install the sound card and it does. After it installs, Game Controllers setup gives me "Not Connected" for my controller. Testport also indicates No Gameport Found. I then disabled the sound card's gameport within Device Manager. I was then able to go back in Game Controllers on the Control Panel and it gave me OK. Kewl, the controller's detected again. Later on when I rebooted, it was indicating again "Not Connected". Then I deleted the sound card's entry with device manager. Again, went back to Game Controllers within control panel and it's back to OK. Rebooted later and, you guessed it, "Not Connected". Everytime I reboot it indicates there's no controller attached with NOT CONNECTED. Any ideas? Thanks

It's actually a simple problem, and one that missed the instructions unfortunately. What you have to do is calibrate your wheel while the soundcard is still not installed. In other words... install the L4 as per instructions, reboot without SC installed... calibrate your wheel... THEN install the soundcard. That should solve it. For the record this is a MS Registry bug ;) Cheers, Schumi "BigDawg" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> I followed the install instructions precisely. Disconnected my sound > card, rebooted, and ran Testport. As it's supposed to, it indicated no > gameport detected. So far, so good. Shut the computer down and installed > the L4 in the ISA slot. Rebooted and ran Testport again. Of course it > indicated Legacy Mode OK, test digital mode Board ID, yada, yada, yada. > Sound card's still uninstalled, Testport detected the L4 like it's > supposed to and I then installed the L4 setup program and drivers per > the instructions. Rebooted, again without the sound card. Everything's > still peachy. Shut down and installed the sound card. Of couse Win98 > wants to install the sound card and it does. After it installs, Game > Controllers setup gives me "Not Connected" for my controller. Testport > also indicates No Gameport Found. I then disabled the sound card's > gameport within Device Manager. I was then able to go back in Game > Controllers on the Control Panel and it gave me OK. Kewl, the > controller's detected again. Later on when I rebooted, it was > indicating again "Not Connected". Then I deleted the sound card's entry > with device manager. Again, went back to Game Controllers within control > panel and it's back to OK. Rebooted later and, you guessed it, "Not > Connected". Everytime I reboot it indicates there's no controller > attached with NOT CONNECTED. Any ideas? > > Thanks > >

Are you using the PDPI L4 Port driver on the "Advanced " page of the game controllers dialog? What sort of wheel are you using? It's possible it could be loading a minport driver. Create a new custom controller & add it to the game controller list & see if that fixes your problem. BigDawg <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> I followed the install instructions precisely. Disconnected my sound > card, rebooted, and ran Testport. As it's supposed to, it indicated no > gameport detected. So far, so good. Shut the computer down and installed > the L4 in the ISA slot. Rebooted and ran Testport again. Of course it > indicated Legacy Mode OK, test digital mode Board ID, yada, yada, yada. > Sound card's still uninstalled, Testport detected the L4 like it's > supposed to and I then installed the L4 setup program and drivers per > the instructions. Rebooted, again without the sound card. Everything's > still peachy. Shut down and installed the sound card. Of couse Win98 > wants to install the sound card and it does. After it installs, Game > Controllers setup gives me "Not Connected" for my controller. Testport > also indicates No Gameport Found. I then disabled the sound card's > gameport within Device Manager. I was then able to go back in Game > Controllers on the Control Panel and it gave me OK. Kewl, the > controller's detected again. Later on when I rebooted, it was > indicating again "Not Connected". Then I deleted the sound card's entry > with device manager. Again, went back to Game Controllers within control > panel and it's back to OK. Rebooted later and, you guessed it, "Not > Connected". Everytime I reboot it indicates there's no controller > attached with NOT CONNECTED. Any ideas? > > Thanks > >

In article <twS55.12558$[email hidden]>, "Shumi" <[email hidden]> writes:

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>It's actually a simple problem, and one that missed the instructions >unfortunately. > >What you have to do is calibrate your wheel while the soundcard is still not >installed. In other words... install the L4 as per instructions, reboot >without SC installed... calibrate your wheel... THEN install the soundcard. > >That should solve it. > >For the record this is a MS Registry bug ;) > >Cheers, > >Schumi

Really? I was able to fix it just by disabling the joystick port on my SBLive in Device Manager. I guess I got lucky... Eldred -- Tiger Stadium R.I.P. 1912-1999 Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett GPL hcp. +70.45 Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats you with experience... Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

"Are you using the PDPI L4 Port driver on the "Advanced " page of the game controllers dialog? What sort of wheel are you using? It's possible it could be loading a minport driver. Create a new custom controller & add it to the game controller list & see if that fixes your problem." Yes I am and I have a TSW2. I created a custom controller when I loaded the card and software, and no, it didn't help. "Really? I was able to fix it just by disabling the joystick port on my SBLive in Device Manager. I guess I got lucky..." Been there, done that...no effect....it works initially but when I reboot it goes back to the dreaded "Not Connected" message "It's actually a simple problem, and one that missed the instructions unfortunately. What you have to do is calibrate your wheel while the soundcard is still not installed. In other words... install the L4 as per instructions, reboot without SC installed... calibrate your wheel... THEN install the soundcard. That should solve it. For the record this is a MS Registry bug ;)" I'll try this option...what I've done in the meantime and it's working is I went into Device Manager and changed the Input/Output Range on the old gamecard to something other that 0201. Bob BigDawg wrote:

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> I followed the install instructions precisely. Disconnected my sound > card, rebooted, and ran Testport. As it's supposed to, it indicated no > gameport detected. So far, so good. Shut the computer down and installed > the L4 in the ISA slot. Rebooted and ran Testport again. Of course it > indicated Legacy Mode OK, test digital mode Board ID, yada, yada, yada. > Sound card's still uninstalled, Testport detected the L4 like it's > supposed to and I then installed the L4 setup program and drivers per > the instructions. Rebooted, again without the sound card. Everything's > still peachy. Shut down and installed the sound card. Of couse Win98 > wants to install the sound card and it does. After it installs, Game > Controllers setup gives me "Not Connected" for my controller. Testport > also indicates No Gameport Found. I then disabled the sound card's > gameport within Device Manager. I was then able to go back in Game > Controllers on the Control Panel and it gave me OK. Kewl, the > controller's detected again. Later on when I rebooted, it was > indicating again "Not Connected". Then I deleted the sound card's entry > with device manager. Again, went back to Game Controllers within control > panel and it's back to OK. Rebooted later and, you guessed it, "Not > Connected". Everytime I reboot it indicates there's no controller > attached with NOT CONNECTED. Any ideas? > > Thanks