Dell Inspiron 4100: SideWinder force Feedback Pro

[Guest]

I have SideWinder FF Pro with 15 pin and I tried to use the USB adapter from
Radioshack & Belkin. But none of them is working.

1- Radioshack: I see the USB adpter in the game control but it does not
comunicate with the Joystick.

2- Belkin: it give error message that the power soruce is higher that it
should be and must be disconncect.

I love to use my SideWinder on my Dell Inspiron 4100? Any help or Hint?

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

That's is correct. You have one more pathway to try before you give up and
throw the joystick away... get a separate soundcard with a gameport/midi
port on it and use it that way. Look at the soundcards first and ensure
they do have a gameport... either on the card or with a separate bracket.
No point in getting one without either. Creative Lab's Audigy2 ZA has a
gameport on a bracket.

The reason why the other ways won't work.....

A USB device must have hard coding in it so that the PC knows what is
connecting to it. A gameport joystick does not normally have that coding.
Therefore the PC has absolutely no idea what you have plugged in to the USB
port and refuses to 'see' it. There is no workaround. That's just the way
it is.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Cari for quick response.

Does Creative Lab's Audigy2 ZA works on labtop? how to add it? Thank you.

Bilal