P4P800 Gameport/MIDI driver for WinXP

[JC]

Hi everyone,
I just bought P4P800 two days ago and installed all the apps and drivers for
XP, but cannot get a driver for the onboard Game/MIDI port, which is
recognized at startup but neither the ASUS CDROM nor Windows CD contain a
driver which could be installed for this port. Anyone can help ?
Please

JC

 

[fred]

Did you enable the Onboard Game/MIDI port in the BIOS ?

 

[Darkfalz]

Hi everyone,
I just bought P4P800 two days ago and installed all the apps and drivers for
XP, but cannot get a driver for the onboard Game/MIDI port, which is
recognized at startup but neither the ASUS CDROM nor Windows CD contain a
driver which could be installed for this port. Anyone can help ?
Please

These are generic devices, I enabled them and XP automatically installed
drivers for them.

 

[127.0.0.1]

I hade no problem with mine it installed auto but you need to enable them in
the bios

 

[Darkfalz]

I hade no problem with mine it installed auto but you need to enable them in
the bios

Where did you get a bracket? Ideally I'd like a bracket with the gameport
and COM2.

 

[fred]

Local ASUS distributor ?

them

Where did you get a bracket? Ideally I'd like a bracket with the gameport
and COM2.

 

[JC]

Thanks for all the answers, of course I've enabled gameport in Bios,
otherwise Windows would not notice it
Meanwhile I solved the problem, because I had to reinstall windows anyway I
decided this time to install ACPI computer and not Standard PC anymore.
Under ACPI Windows correctly recognized the gameport and installed driver
for it.

JC

 

[fred]

Please explain "ACPI install". Happy to learn something.

 

[JC]

Please explain "ACPI install". Happy to learn something.

I assume you ask seriously, don't you ?
By default, Windows XP installs itself in ACPI mode. For some reasons
earlier it was advisable to install Windows (especially Win2k) in Standard
PC mode, but under XP it is no longer necessary. When Standard PC mode is
installed, you can have more influence on hardware functioning (assignment
of IRQs etc.) in order to optimize performance for some applications.

JC

 

[fred]

I am very serious about this. Never heard of ACPI install mode before. What
does it mean ?
Have installed Operating Systems from the TRS-DOS (1979) through IBM-DOS,
OS/2 all versions, Windows 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, 95, 98, XP.
and always used the 'normal' procedure as described by the maker. Did I miss
something with 'Standard PC mode' ?

 

[JC]

I am very serious about this. Never heard of ACPI install mode before. What
does it mean ?
Have installed Operating Systems from the TRS-DOS (1979) through IBM-DOS,
OS/2 all versions, Windows 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, 95, 98, XP.
and always used the 'normal' procedure as described by the maker. Did I miss
something with 'Standard PC mode' ?

Well, if you had no problems with the 'normal' or default installation, you
probably don't have to know about 'Standard PC mode'. This was important in
some cases under Windows 2000, where if ACPI was installed by default, all
the hardware devices (sound cards, USB controllers etc. got IRQ9 assigned,
which could lead to performance bottlenecks and sometime also to problems if
the corresponding device drivers where not capable of IRQ sharing).
Installing 'Standard PC' would solve this problem. I used it for short time,
because I do audio processing and recording on a PC, which is very ressource
hungry. Fortunately under XP this problem seems not to exist any longer, so
you can just install without this trick. This feature was not frequently
mentioned in installation guides, that's why you haven't heard of it. If you
need more information on ACPI, just type it in in Google, you'll find tons
of informations.

Regs
JC

 

[fred]

Thanks for the information.
I must have been a lucky guy having used only the normal install procedures.