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In article: <GcdSxDAmh5twEwh6@jjackson.demon.co.uk>  Alan Jackson 
<jjackson@jjackson.demon.co.uk> writes:
> 
> Here'a a strange one for the technocrats.....a friend of mine has just
> upgraded his machine from 4 to 8Mb and is now having 'problems' with 
the
> joystick port config. Prior to the upgrade the joystick was plugged 
into
> the sound card and setup in software, also the gameport on the multi 
I/O
> was enabled!!. Now the gameport on the sound card is very very slow in
> operation and in some instances the software will not see the 
joystick,
> but when the gameport on the soundcard is disabled the gameport on the
> multi I/O works OK. He has one hard drive and an IDE CDROM. I 
suspected
> that the two port were competing, but when the gameport was disabled 
on
> the multi I/O it made no difference. The setup has been like this for 
11
> months and worked perfectly well until the ram was upgraded. I am open
> to any helpful suggestions........

Joystick ports are a Royal PITA. I suggest that the one on the sound 
card is disabled and the one on the multi-I/O used. This will not affect 
MIDI operation, just where to connect the joystick.

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