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General Category => Ask Our Experts => Topic started by: Merc on March 31, 2008, 05:39:42 am

Title: Gameport Loopback not present
Post by: Merc on March 31, 2008, 05:39:42 am

I have tryed the gameport loopback on several machines through dos and Pc-Doctor said that there was no loopback present. I know the game port works on the machines in windows but why doesn't Pc-Doctor find the loopback?  Please Help

Title: Re: Gameport Loopback not present
Post by: fwilson on March 31, 2008, 07:35:44 am

Merc,

The gameport loopback is a pretty simple test,  it is odd that it would fail.  One possibility is if it is an expansion card that requires drivers.  If the port is not available via the BIOS after POST the DOS product will not be able to test it. 

If this is a motherboard based game port please tell me what make and model your machine is and post the log snippet referring to the joystick. It will look like this:
IEEE1394 Controller.....................PASSED 
Joystick External Loop..................
  No loopback present
Joystick External Loop                  N/A

-Fred