[AlexD744]

Although I don't know how to help you with your current problem, I will let you know that the IO Board can be flaky. Last year we would have to restart our classmate before our matches and pray that the IO would be there. This year we are still using the board, and although we have not had any problems yet, we have programed all of the necessary functions to work with joystick buttons and not the IO Board if and only if the main driver is holding one of the triggers, that way, even if IO goes down, we can still play our match. (although the drivers' hands will be kinda cramped)

But I'd say work first on getting it to work and I'm really sorry that I don't have any answers for you, other than I can tell you it works with the Windows 7 on our Classmate.