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Re: My Windows 95 saga...(Help me, please!)

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From: Don DeSota
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 1995 15:16
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Ben Mansill <ben@next.com.au> writes:
The only problem I had was with my joystick. I had to delete the 
gamesport and reinstall. I could then go into joystick and set things up.
This happened on two systems.

>Can't help... sorry, but empathy is heading your way at the speed of 
>light.

>I installed Win 95 last night, then spent the follwing several hours 
>trying to get my Tseng ET4000w32p to work. Win 95 recognised it and 
>loaded its drivers, but as soon as Win 95 started an big ugly message 
>appeared saying that the Tseng was conflicting with my PCI HDD 
>controller, and that I should "remove" one of the devices...good advice 
>that...

>Seing as the PC (P90) worked perfectly for several months I simply don't 
>believe the message. It said the two cards were both trying to use 
>IRQ15, and I can change the Tseng to IRQ 9, but thats what my 
>Thrustmaster ACM game card uses and I can't change that as it has no 
>jumpers.

>Incedentally, my joystick isn't recognised at all! Either as a 
>Thrustmaster FCS or two button joystick, MSD finds it OK, as does every 
>other game on the planet - but not wonderful Windows.

>MS customer "service" suggested that I "delete" my autoexec and config 
>to fix the problem, can't wait to get home tonight and see if it 
>works...

>I tried running the Tseng drivers that worked in Win 3.11, but it 
>crashed the system...

>Anyone got any ideas?
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From: dond@sequent.com (Don DeSota)
Subject: Re: My Windows 95 saga...(Help me, please!)
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