Joystick kills my computer :@

RadiationBoy · #1 29th Aug 02, 09:10 PM

ok well this is reallly really odd. I have the Asus A7V266-E motherboard, and use the onboard cmedia sound. So that means I use the onbard joystick port. I have a Saitek Cyborg 3D Digital joystick. When I plug my joystick in my computer doesn't turn on. LOL I hit the power button and it just fucken sits there. It like powers up, but I just have a black screen and no beeps or anything. I unplug the joystick and turn the computer on. Boots up just fine. I'm like wtf. so I tryed like 3 or 4 times LMGDAO. anyone have any ideas?

RadiationBoy · #2 30th Aug 02, 07:54 PM

damn I guess I stumped everybody. Rocky said he used to have a cmedia card, and everytime he turned on his joystick it restarted his computer lmao. So maybe cmedia is fux0rd or something. maybe I'll get a real sound card some day heh.

just_do_IT · #3 30th Aug 02, 08:05 PM

Curious - have you checked your settings on the bios? Sometimes there are some funky settings with onboard sound/game devices.

RadiationBoy · #4 9th Sep 02, 09:12 PM

hey trminatr, yes I checked through all the bios settings and looked through my mobo manuel. I found nothing

thanks for the tip though. I hadn't thought of that before

just_do_IT · #5 9th Sep 02, 10:03 PM

One more thought - if its a USB joystick, you may have to install the USB drivers found on the cd that comes with your motherboard.

Sephiroth · #6 9th Sep 02, 10:09 PM

try this rad: change what memory addresses and / or IRQ's the onboard gameport is allocated in the bios, i don't know what to tell you to change it to, just change it to something that it isn't on already, LOL, other than that, i don't have any ideas either, those are the only two things i can think of other than buggy hardware, mabye update the bios too

RadiationBoy · #7 10th Sep 02, 07:08 AM

well its not usb its gameport heheh

I'll try the bios thing adam. I'm thinking my mobo is kinda f*cked up considering it doesn't save any bios information when I lose power (yes I changed the bios battery).

I'll let you guys know if the bios settings work. although I don't think i saw anything about the gameport in the bios....

thanks for all the help guys