🚀 go-pugleaf

[Posted & Mailed]

On Wed, 30 Jun 1999 06:07:43 GMT, in <comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.networking>,
change@pacbell.net (John Johnson) wrote:
 >
 > I have a ASUS PB2-F board.  I m not using either com port, have a ps2
 > mouse.
 > Can I safely disable the two com, (listed as serial ports in the bios)
 > ports.
 > My modem is now on Com 3.
 >
    [snip]

Yes.

But if you do, you really _should_ re-address the modem (which I presume is
an internal type, if you're not using either of the mobo's comm ports) to
COM1:.  While, under Windows 4.x (95/98), you can probably "get away with"
not doing this, it remains a good idea on general principles (with _some_
BIOSes, software can get confused when there are "missing" comm ports
"below" the one it is trying to talk to).

OTOH, it won't hurt anything to just leave the ports enabled, even if there
is nothing hung off them.  As the saying goes, "If it ain't broke, don't
'fix' it."

And finally...  If you do leave the ports enabled (and the modem at COM3:),
and later decide to hang some serial device device off one of those ports,
use COM2: before using COM1.  This will help to avoid/defer an IRQ conflict
with the existing COM3:.  [Hmmmm...  That's where this thread started! ;-)]

-- Jay T. Blocksom
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