I have discovered a conflicting device!

[The__tweaker]

When I mount my Nightingale Pro6 soundcard in my MSI Nforce2 machine the device manager indicates that the gameport have a conflict with another device. How do i solve this?

As you can see the option to change resources is shadowed and don't let me change it. So I thought maybe I can change the setting for the other part in the system that has a conflict with the gameport, but how da hell can I tell which the other
conflicting part in my machine is cause the gameport is the only device in my device manager that's marked with a error code.

Btw "201-201" shouldn't that be a wider value..:?:

I also noticed that the gameport is using a driver written by Microsoft while the main soundcard driver is written by C-media, can this have something to do with my problem..:?:

You may ask yourself why i use this soundcard instead of the onboard nforce sound which also have 6 channels, well it's because this soundcard gives me proper sound in my favourite game atm, Toca Race Driver. With the onboard it just sounds terrible! I dunno why cause I use the latest drivers etc.

Since I installed this card and got this conflict I experinced two or three crashes when gaming longer than 15-20 minutes, the comp either restarts on me or freezez. This must be a result of the conflict right? But that must mean the gameport is conflicting with some part that's necessery for the systems stability.

But the fact that the option to change this value is shadowed does not make any sence to me.. :yuc:

Any tip, help or anything is greatly appriciated.. This is the forst real hardware conflict I ever experienced..:yuc: :yuc:

[Darthtanion]

Just out of curiosity, do you even use the game port? If not, then you can just get rid of it (along with any possible associated stability issues). To do so just right click the title with the yellow exclamation point and choose "Uninstall".

[The__tweaker]

The thing is that I would like to use it if possible.. But sure I will do that as a last possible solution..

:cheers:

[Wiggo]

Why are ya usin' a separate sound card when the onboard sound is very good? :?:

[asklepios]

So I thought maybe I can change the setting for the other part in the system that has a conflict with the gameport, but how da hell can I tell which the other conflicting part in my machine is cause the gameport is the only device in my device manager that's marked with a error code.

go to device manager and then change your view from "Devices by type" to "Resources by type". under Interrupt Request(IRQ) look the devices listed according to your IRQ's.
this will tell you which device it is conflicting with.

[B]You may ask yourself why i use this soundcard instead of the onboard nforce sound which also have 6 channels, well it's because this soundcard gives me proper sound in my favourite game atm, Toca Race Driver. With the onboard it just sounds terrible! I dunno why cause I use the latest drivers etc.

that answers your question Wiggo!


btw did you try to change IRQ's from BIOS? If you have all the IRQ's full then there will be no other option but to uninstall few devices, but if you have free IRQ's then try using them from BIOS.
btw i don't know which OS you are using, but XP can use more than one device on same IRQ though i doubt that it can allow vid or sound card to share the IRQ with something else.

[Wiggo]

Did ya check for updated Windows drivers? :?:

[The__tweaker]

latest driver still no good.. :cry:

[asklepios]

so u came to know which device it is conflicting with?

[Wiggo]

I think that ya'll have to uninstall that sound card so that you can disable the onboard port and then reinstall the sound card again.

[VinnieVen]

Since u Have onboard sound, u also fave a game port that comes with that. Do u know if U have disabled the Gameport in the BIOS?

[C_deck]

1) in the bios, disable devices that use interrupts that you dont use, such as ps2 mouse, com ports, onboard sound, legacy anything. see if it works

2) i see you had a "few kicks at the cat" with the nic card. uninstall all of them and have the manufacturers nic drivers ready when you reboot. see if it works

3) if the above doesnt work, try toggling the "plug and play os" option in the pci section of the bios. see if it works, if not toggle back and see if it works.

4) in the device manger, view devices by type and see what other bugger is using that io address. are there any jumpers on that sound card? post back here.

[The__tweaker]

Thank you all I'm going to try and solve this tomorrow cause I'm of to work soon. I'll post back then and let ya know how things are going..

:cheers: