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On Thu, 27 Feb 1997 18:58:11 GMT, chris@watering.demon.co.uk (Chris
Watson) wrote:

>One of my friends has just acquired a hand-held grey-scale scanner.
>Can't remember the make off hand I'm afraid.
>
>When the board is plugged into the IBM compatible PC, and the machine
>rebooted, either his mouse stops working or his modem stops working.
>
>His mous is on COM2 and the modem is internal, on COM3.
>
>I have had a look for jumpers on the scanner board in case of
>conflict, but there are no jumpers at all.
>
>The Windows software allows a change of IRQ setting for the scanner,
>but ALL of these settings work, with no help to the functioning of the
>modem or mouse.
>
>He has no manual either unfortunately!
>
>Can someone please suggest something - other than unplugging the
>scanner board when he wants to dial up the internet!!
>
>Cheers,
>
>Chris Watson

If it is a Logitech ScanMan, there are dip switches on the bracket
(near the port) which set IRQ.  You have to find an IRQ which does not
conflict with COM2 and COM3.   (i.e., IRQ4 and IRQ3 won't work.  You
will need to use IRQ7 or IRQ5 (probably 5 is best since usually LPT1
uses IRQ7).