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cquirke@iafrica.com (Chris Quirke) wrote:

>leifa@sn.no (Leif Arne Neset) wrote:
>
>>I've been troubled with the same combination of video, 486 and modem/serial
>>port. The problem is that the Diamond stealth card uses some internal
>>registers that have addresses that have the same last bits as the base
>>address of serial port com2. The problem is that the Diamond stealth driver
>>software writes information into registers of the UART of the 
>>modem/serial port which then acts funny.
>Does your COM2: use COM4:'s IO port address?  AFAIK the SVGA clash
>issue involves COM4:'s IO address, although as COM4: shares IRQ3 with
>COM2:, you may get some spill-over...
>
>>My solution was to strap my ISA serial card/modem as com1 and use
>>the built in VESA combo card com2 for the mouse. 
>Me2; the beauty of mouse on COM2: is that you can add an internal
>modem on COM3:, or an external on COM1:, and not have to worry about
>IRQ clashes with the mouse, IO port clashes with S3 or misbehaviour
>due to a "missing" COM3:    ;-)
>
I just flashed the bios on a Micron P 90 today and on reboot it said
there was a comport conflict....s3 card and modem, having been through
this before with s3 cards I disabled com port 2 and all is ok.

good luck
KJ King
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http://www.snowcrest.net/kjking