Gameport Questions

I have a gameport enabled on my Creative (Audigy 2 ZS) sound card. It works
fine with either MS Sidewinder Forcefeedback pro joystick or my CH
ProPedals.

I'm now trying to configure the standard gameport on the motherboard, so
that I have two gameports available, but I can't get it to work.

I've enabled the onboard gameport in the BIOS and XP see's this as a
Standard Gameport. Device manager also reports that it is functioning
correctly and reports no conflicts (I've been careful to ensure different
adrees ranges for the two ports).

However, the game controller wizard reports the game controller as "not
connected". The other symptom is that in the Device manager properties
panel the "Device Usage" section is "greyed" out so I can't choose "use this
device".

The cost of moving to USB versions of these devices is pretty big.

System is Intel Pentium 4 @ 2.6GHz with 1GB DDR400 Corsair XMS memory and
250GB Maxtor Sata hardrive
PSU is 450Watts and OS is XPSP2.

Are two gameports actually supported by XP? Anyone have a fix?

Many thanks in advance

Steve