AN35N won't run ad-on Gameports

I would like to know if anyone is successfully running an add-on gameport
with an AN35N Ultra?

After about 25 hours of testing with the on-board sound and gameports
disabled, testing 2 known working soundcards (SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 & a PCI
Creative Ensoniq), 3 different working joysticks, different slots, manually
clean sweeping the drivers and installing from scratch, 4 phone calls to
SoundBlaster and 1 to Shuttle, all I can get is the "Not Connected" message
in the Gaming Options > Controllers window. PNP sees the gameports and
Windows 98 loads the drivers normally. Everything points to the motherboard
not being able to run an add-on gameport.

If I knew that this was a universal problem we could get Shuttle to fix the
BIOS or something.

I've got the AN35N Ultra with the newest Bios Version: an35s00g-running
Win98.

The easiest thing would be to get a USB gaming device.

tom


"Worrybird" <Cybnorm.TakeThisOut@spam_me_not.Hotmail.Com> wrote in message
news:8D2hb.6146$Eo2.5833@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net...
 > I would like to know if anyone is successfully running an add-on gameport
 > with an AN35N Ultra?
 >
 > After about 25 hours of testing with the on-board sound and gameports
 > disabled, testing 2 known working soundcards (SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 & a
PCI
 > Creative Ensoniq), 3 different working joysticks, different slots,
manually
 > clean sweeping the drivers and installing from scratch, 4 phone calls to
 > SoundBlaster and 1 to Shuttle, all I can get is the "Not Connected"
message
 > in the Gaming Options > Controllers window. PNP sees the gameports and
 > Windows 98 loads the drivers normally. Everything points to the
motherboard
 > not being able to run an add-on gameport.
 >
 > If I knew that this was a universal problem we could get Shuttle to fix
the
 > BIOS or something.
 >
 > I've got the AN35N Ultra with the newest Bios Version: an35s00g-running
 > Win98.
 >
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