device manager/ exclamation mark

[carlrowley1]

Hello
In device manager under "sound,video, and game controllers"
I have two "standard game ports" listed

one off them has a yellow exclamation mark on it and is enabled
the other one is also enabled.

The one with the exclamation mark on it also says "this device cannot find enough free resources that it can use, if you want to use this device, you will need to disable one of the other devices on this system.

and on the resources tab in the "conflicting device list"
states input/output range 0201-0201 not available

Also resource type settings 1/0 range 0201-0201.


I have know idea what this means,  should i just disable this one.  (the one with the exclamation mark on it)   OR is it not that straight forward 

Windows xp pro sp3
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[Custom-IT]

Do you use your game port? and  do you know how many game ports you physically have?

Try disabling one and see what happens...

[carlrowley1]

Do you use your game port? and  do you know how many game ports you physically have?

To be honest i do not know, i do not play any games.
can you use them for sound, as in to play sound out of speakers.

My computer was getting fixed the other day, and while he was fixing it , he noticed it had two sound cards in,  so he took one out, and gave it back to me.

So when i had connected all the leads and turned the computer on, all was fine until i connected the speakers, i could not get any sound from anywhere.

So i put the other sound card back in and hey speakers are working.
So i think , if this is right, its the onboard computer sound card that i carn't get any sound from.

This other sound card just fits into a spare slot.

But on the other hand has this got anything to do with it at all
i will post back , after disableing the one that has the exclamation mark on it.

But just to make sure is it safe to do this,
As i haven't a clue about this

[patio]

Right click one of them at a time and select Uninstall/Remove...
Reboot and see what happens...
If no joy/joy reinstall your sound card drivers...

[carlrowley1]

Right click one of them at a time and select Uninstall/Remove...
Reboot and see what happens...
If no joy/joy reinstall your sound card drivers...

Hello i have done what you mentioned, but this makes no difference, it will ask you to restart the computer, for the changes to take affect, and when you do this  its the same as it was.

I tryed to disable it, but that just brings up a red x  telling you its disabled.

as i say if this is doing know harm, can i leave it as it is

[patio]

I'm sure it's causing no harm...missing or incorrect drivers won't harm anything.
If you are real curious DLoad Everest Home and install it and run a report...it may give you more clues about the missing device.

[carlrowley1]

Right click one of them at a time and select Uninstall/Remove...
Reboot and see what happens...
If no joy/joy reinstall your sound card drivers...

Looking over your answer again, i realised what i had done.
I was uninstalling one then rebooting the computer.

And then doing the same with the other one, then rebooting the computer.

As you said, uninstall one, then the other, and then restart the computer

That did work this time.

Thankyou for your help patio 

[patio]

Excellent...nice work !