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I have an I-will KK266 motherboard, athlon 1.3, and an on-board cmedia 8738 soundcard/gameport. I have the latest service packs, compatibilty updates, drivers, 4-in-1's, etc. I simply can not get my Sidewinder Gamepad (Gameport...the original one) to work on this system. It works perfectly in win98, and people have gotten it to work on win2000, but I just can't seem to fix it. When I click add in gaming options, and select 'Sidewinder (auto-detect)', it detects it as a Sidewinder 3d pro (which it's not) and the status flickers from 'not connected' to 'OK' every few seconds. Anyone got any idea what's going on? Thanks...

Sorry, wasn't sure where to post this exactly, but its closest to Hardware I guess... I'm trying to delete a a key in the registry from LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Gameport but it simply won't let me. Administrator, Safe Mode, doesn't matter what, I can't delete anything from that particular key. Is this protected somehow, can it be un-protected, and if it can't, why the freakin' hell not? Thanks, any help is appreciated. (also, is there anyway I could screw around with the win2k registry from win98, so I could possible work around whatever screwy protection it has that way maybe?)