Joystick Port Not Removed When Sound Card Is Removed

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The information in this article applies to:

• Microsoft Windows 95
• Microsoft Windows 98

SYMPTOMS

When you remove a sound card from your computer and remove the sound card in Device Manager, the joystick (game) port on the sound card still appears in Device Manager.

CAUSE

There is no parent-child relationship between the sound card and the joystick port. Therefore, when you remove the sound card in Device Manager, the joystick port is not automatically removed.

In addition, because the virtual joystick device driver (Vjoyd.vxd) cannot normally detect whether the joystick port has been removed or the joystick port is present but has no joystick attached, the driver is always active. Therefore, when the hardware in your computer is detected, detection is not run on the joystick port.

RESOLUTION

You can manually remove the joystick port in Device Manager by following these steps:

1. Use the right mouse button to click My Computer, then click Properties on the menu that appears.

2. Click the Device Manager tab.

3. Double-click the Sound, Video, And Game Controllers branch to expand it.

4. Click the joystick port, then click Remove.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Windows 95. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.