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I have a GW2k G6-200 Pentium Pro running WinNT4. Motherboard Setup uses
Serial Port settings
for Com1 and Com2 which conform to defaults,  ie, 3f8,irq4 and 2f8, irq3,
respectively, with no other 
ports enabled. NT's control panel, Ports, likewise has the same (and no
other) specifications in the
"Advanced" settings. 

Regularly, however, NT's event viewer reports "The control registers for
COM1 overlaps with the COM1 control registers.", during bootup, and this
entry actually preceeds the start of the Event Viewer log
although it bears the same date and time as the log. I could live with
this, as most of the time the
system seems to function normally.

However, on a few occasions, something more serious happens. A benign (?)
message appears,
such as

"User configuration data for parameter COM2 overriding firmware
configuration data. "

together with several others, rather similar, of which an example is

"A conflict has been detected between two drivers which claimed two
overlapping Io port regions. Driver lsermous, with device
<\Device\PointerPort1.Translated>, claimed an IO port range with starting
address in data address 0x28 and 0x2c, and length in data address 0x30. "

and on these occasions the only Serial Port device I use (an ISDN Modem)
fails to work. Re-booting
usually fixes this. There seems to be some interaction with my Logitech
Trackball 'mouse' attached
to the PS/2 mouse port, but it functions normally at all times.

Any comments or suggestions for sorting this out?
Bill Wright