Can't get joystick to work!!!

[DaFunkyUnit]

Arg! Can't get my Sidewinder 3D Pro to work on my bro's machine. In the game controller device panel, it always says its 'not connected' but if I set it to standard '2/4 button joystick' then it works. However, the joystick will 'drift' like crazy. I've installed the latest drivers/software from MS, (3.02) and I even tried the .vbx patch, all to no avail. My relevant specs for the machine:

AMD Athlon 1Ghz
128 DDR
GeForce 2MX w/ 32MB
Win98se

Thing i dont understand is that the joystick works perfectly fine on my other machine:

P3 450Mhz
192 Sdram
TNT2 w/ 32MB
Win98se

anyone w/ suggestions? I wanna play Freespace dammit!!! :mad3:

[spigidygak]

What type of mobo is it? Also are the soundcards different on each machine? It could be the one it doesn't work on it has some malfuntions in it.

[Cheesypuff]

Try plugging the joystick into the port on the mobo...I'm making this request becasue I had a sound card in my mobo and I tried to plug all my sound stuff into it...and that didn't work...so I plugged it into my mobo ports, and that worked. don't ask me why, I guess windows detects the mobo one first...beats me on whats going on with that.