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Here are my two problems.

1. If I use the standard game port/joystick out games work fine but I have no Midi capability, for music devices. If I add a basic sound card (Creative 16) Midi ports work fine, but Joystick fails to work on either the original game port or the added sound card.

2. When trying to add a Cd-rom/Rw ( 16x10x40 Lite-On) to my system, it is recognized only once when I reinstall the IDE cable. If I shut down the system and restart/ especially if I unplug all power from the wall, it only has green light on CD and system fails to boot. I can reset the IDE and again it only works once.
I have used/checked this drive on an older machine and it works fine. I have set jumpers to slave and cable select with no change.
Hope someone out there has some ideas, I've been bangin my head against the wall for about a month now and boy does it hurt. Thanks for any and all help

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System
Epox 8rda+ Motherboard
AMD 2400
512 memory
18 gig HD
30 gig Maxtor HD
CD rom
MSI GeForce FX5200 AGP
Windows ME

you try putting the cd rom as master on the secondary ide controller? some cd drives dont like sharing with hdd's

No, i guess that was the one thing I didn't try. Thanks will let you know.

Fixed the CD problem.. put drive in different bay. This drive is 1/4inch bigger than older drive. New drive was touching a capacitor on the MOBO and causing a secondary ground. Not good. Thanks for suggestion. Now if only I could figure out my MIDI propblem.

Your best bet is to just use a USB to gameport interface for joysticks and leave the existing gameport for you MIDI devices.

I'm using the Radio Shack MIDI to USB interface and it works great. Only $16:
http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?c ... d=26%2D164

I bought it for my LAN party system because I don't have a gameport connector for the onboard sound card. But I also started using it on my main system - it seems to work better than the onboard gameport.