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Article #1020Re: Modem Problems with Windows 3.1
From: Cletus Stripling
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 17:10
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 17:10
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In article <q2aDPB1w164w@buscard.fidonet.org> sharky@buscard.fidonet.org (Gary Sciacca) writes: >Anyone know why I would modem problems with windows and >not in DOS. I have 2 com ports and 1 internal modem at >com 3. The mouse is working fine as com 2 in windows >but I'm having flacky probs with and windows application >that uses a modem. Hangs system, with faults, download >problems. If I use the internal modem with Procomm >under DOS 5.0 only, everthing works fine. Do I have some >kind of interrupt conflict maybe ?? Windows does use >the mouse and the modem at the same time where Procomm >wouldn't. Didn't seem to have many problems under windows >3.0. I'm running a 286 system in case that matters. > >Thanks, >Gary > > >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >The Business Card (BBS), Lawrence, Massachusetts - Data: (508) 682-5329 >SysAdmin: murph@buscard.fidonet.org / ...!ulowell!wizvax!buscard!murph Choose Control Panel under the main window or group, open up the icon for ports and make sure that under the settings you have the address 03E8 entered as the base port address. Also make sure that the Interrupt request is set for 4. Initially both of these options may be set to "default". When I've had problems in the past this has seemed to clear them up. Hope this helps, Cletus Stripling The University of Georgia -- ************************************************************ * Cletus Stripling cstripli@harpo.dev.uga.edu * * The University of Georgia cstripli@uga.cc.uga.edu * * UCNS/Computer Services Annex *
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!sun-barr!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!mips!darwin.sura.net!gatech!emory!athena.cs.uga.edu!harpo.dev.uga.edu!cstripli From: cstripli@harpo.dev.uga.edu (Cletus Stripling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Modem Problems with Windows 3.1 Message-ID: <1992Aug12.171034.15226@athena.cs.uga.edu> Date: 12 Aug 92 17:10:34 GMT References: <q2aDPB1w164w@buscard.fidonet.org> Sender: news@athena.cs.uga.edu Organization: University of Georgia, Athens Lines: 36