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Once upon a time,  "B.MacDonald" <burns@nthwd.demon.co.uk> wrote
>In article <dOzDElAV6O+yEwir@isbjorn.demon.co.uk>, Andrew Brydon
><andrew@isbjorn.demon.co.uk> writes
>>I have just donated my old 14.4 semi-branded voice modem to
>>a relative, but we are having big-time problems trying to get
>>his Win95 to configure it.
>>
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>I'm willing to bet that you have a serial mouse on that system. 
>They normally live on Com1 and won't share the "mousehole".
>You need to configure the modem to Com2. You should be offered this
>option as part of the modem setup. If not, you can change it after in
>modem Properties. If you have any other kit running on serial ports, you
>need to be aware that ports 1 & 3 and 2 & 4 are each paired to share
>resources (ie, IRQ - DMA). In that case you will need to figure out
>which devices will tolerate each other - many will not.

It appears to be a PS2 mouse. Within MyComputer/Properties, the clashes
appear to be with Ports sub-section, rather than the Mice.
We tried installing on COM2, but there was no difference. The biggest
problem is that the clash is detected during start-up, just after the
BIOS RAM check, and requires a key-press to continue start-up!
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Andrew Brydon
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