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Andrew Cullen writes:

 "Win95 PC with 4 com ports. COM3 has IRQ11 and
 "COM4 IRQ12 - I'm using a 2port 16550 ISA serial card. (IRQ 12 is normally
 "PS2 Mouse interrupt - unused on my PC).
 "For more than two extra ports, get a custom 4 or eight port card and driver
 "- usually shares a single
 "interrupt but card is more $.
 "
 "Works fine all 4 ports at once. Trick I think is to "fool" Win95 by adding
 "6 comports - you can
 "change IRQ of COM5 and COm6 to 11 or 12 or whatever. Then delete ports 3
 "and 4 and reboot.
 
The problem I can anticipate here: if you later have to do "Add hardware",
Win95's plug & pray might change the ports back to what they "should" be?
I'm far from sure of this; but the sort of problem that bedevils me is a
network card (NIC) set to use IRQ 10, set so that Win95 can't change it
(jumpered to be software configurable but not p&p).

Whenever Win95 adds hardware it likes to allocate IRQ3 to the NIC, which
will of course no longer talk to the network.

Best wishes,
-- 
Michael Salem