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23381	2001-11-02 03:12:00	I have a Joystick for Flight Sims that works from Game Port or USB. Can't get it to go on USB. Found it in Device Manager to be told that it is disabled because the BIOS isn't giving it an IRQ.Code 29 mentioned and to enable it in BIOS. Went into BIOS, PCI Plug and Play Set-up, but commands seem OK. Plug and Play aware O/S - Yes. PCI VGA Pallette snoop - disabled. Allocate IRQ to PCI VGA - No. DMA channels 0 to 7 shown as PNp and IRQ 3 / 15 PCI - PNP. Am I in the right area - using a Pent.2, 300 Mhz with Win 98.	Guest (0)
23382	2001-11-02 03:30:00	No you are looking at the wrong thing, if you want to use the USB port, you have to 'enable' it. Probably under chipset features, or device options, in the bios somewhere.	Guest (0)
23383	2001-11-02 06:39:00	Just thinking some more about your problem, I may have misunderstood you. I think that you want the joystick to plug into your serial port, if you do then you need to make sure you have COM1 or COM2 working, or both. Check in device manager that they are there, they maybe what you want to enable in your bios.	Guest (0)
23384	2001-11-02 10:43:00	If you don't use COM1 and COM2 there should be an option to disable them, this will free IRQ 3 & 4. Which may be enough to let it fix itself. If there is an option to assign an IRQ to USB turn it on, and anything else relating to it. Also assigning an IRQ to VGA is usually needed for most cards to work correctly.	Guest (0)
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