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Thanks chris – i’ll give them a shot.

Hah! After a week of hacking the win 98 cruft out of my system by reformatting the drive and doing a clean install, win2k works like a charm, as do all of the office apps.

Thanks Caz – i wouldve expected Access to ask for the Cd in that case, which it didnt.

i am thinking seriously now of formatting the drive and doing a clean install of win2k, and then a clean install of office.

From the MSKB: For example, on a Microsoft Windows NT-based computer only the SideWinder Standard, and SideWinder 3D Pro are supported, and each of these game controllers require that Windows NT Service Pack 3 or later be installed on the computer.

end of story. thanks for the help!

yeah, well, ‘game’-anything was not the reason for my upgrade. i’m on win2k without a single crash since startup 8 months ago, it’s worth not having a few items, like games.

This machine is a Dell XPS R450, not THAT old.

Thanks for the reminder about h/w compatibility. Sidewinder is listed as compatible…

Svc pack 1 for win2k, aye. DirectX 8, eh? No idea even how to find that out!

The sound card is Crystal Fusion – i’ve found no driver updates.

connections surely checked, aye