As some of you may know, I am now dual booting win98se and winxp. Everything is great and running just fine except for a really bothersome problem. My DVD-ROM drive is acting up under Win98. First off, Win98 detects it as a standard CD-ROM drive, which cant be good and then there's the main issue.
The main issue is that on occasion under win98 only (this doesnt happen under XP) my dvd rom will decide that it wants to eject whatever is in there, even if nothing is in there. I can be playing a game and I'll just get eject requests. If I try to eject a CD by pushing the button on my DVD-ROM, it doesnt open however, if I go into My Computer and select Eject, it works. Also, it likes to randomly run the autorun of whatever CD is in there. So I'll be doing something and the autorun of Need For Speed 3 will come up.
Anyone think of anything that could help? I also need to get my gameport working so I'll ask about that too.
I want to use my Craetive gameport on my SB Live for my MS Force Feedback Wheel. Windows 98 (yes, only 98 again) detects the gameport but it's not an available option under port in the Game Controller control panel. I checked microsoft's site and it said to run win98 in safe mode and then set the gameports I/O to a value of x200-x20F. So I tried to do this only to find that you can't set anything to a value of "x" and secondly it wont just let me set it to "200-20F" So what am I suppose to do there. For this reason, my force feedback doesnt work
If anyone can think of anything that could help, let me know, I'd really appreciate it.
EDIT: hmm, apparently this has been moved to the hardware/software forum. I doubt anyone comes here though oh well, if anyone does see this, help.
The main issue is that on occasion under win98 only (this doesnt happen under XP) my dvd rom will decide that it wants to eject whatever is in there, even if nothing is in there. I can be playing a game and I'll just get eject requests. If I try to eject a CD by pushing the button on my DVD-ROM, it doesnt open however, if I go into My Computer and select Eject, it works. Also, it likes to randomly run the autorun of whatever CD is in there. So I'll be doing something and the autorun of Need For Speed 3 will come up.
Anyone think of anything that could help? I also need to get my gameport working so I'll ask about that too.
I want to use my Craetive gameport on my SB Live for my MS Force Feedback Wheel. Windows 98 (yes, only 98 again) detects the gameport but it's not an available option under port in the Game Controller control panel. I checked microsoft's site and it said to run win98 in safe mode and then set the gameports I/O to a value of x200-x20F. So I tried to do this only to find that you can't set anything to a value of "x" and secondly it wont just let me set it to "200-20F" So what am I suppose to do there. For this reason, my force feedback doesnt work
If anyone can think of anything that could help, let me know, I'd really appreciate it.
EDIT: hmm, apparently this has been moved to the hardware/software forum. I doubt anyone comes here though oh well, if anyone does see this, help.
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