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GTD/KAD <jdombeck@esslink.com> wrote:

>Greetings,

>Question:

>Does the Diamond Stealth S3 Vision 964 chip (2 meg, PCI) conflict with an 
>internal modem at Com 4, Irq 3? The card was purchased in 8/94.

>Some people have said that I am crazy, but I remember reading that they 
>conflict because something in the Stealth card with the S3 Vision 964 
>chip uses Com 4, or Irq 3.

>Do they conflict??

Yes, certainly on my machine a modem on COM4 wouldn't work when the
Win95 S3 drivers were loaded.  Commands could be sent *to* the modem
(I got it to dial out) but you get nothing back.  Move the modem to
Com3, and it works fine.

Slight twist though.  I've a Stealth 64 VRAM, which at the present
(and maybe forever?) there is no Diamond specific driver for.  I was
using the generic S3 Win95 driver.  I then found an S3 964 driver
meant for another S3 card (I forget offhand which one it was) and this
amazingly worked fine with the Stealth, gave a slightly better
performance (not enough to get excited about, mind) but didn't clash
with COM4.  

I only know all this because I was using the above driver when I put
the modem in on COM4, and had no problems.  I later reinstalled Win95,
and the driver got changed back to the generic S3.  And I spent
several hours puzzling over why my modem had stopped responding :(


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Ian Baldock                     Computing Devices, St Leonards
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