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Re: Help - I can't get Win95 to work with my com ports

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From: Richard Ashton
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 00:00
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In article <AD9C83BD9668E571@albooth.demon.co.uk>
           ab@albooth.demon.co.uk "Andrew Booth" writes:

} I've just finished building a pentium PC, which seemed to be fairly
} straightforwards. It's all based around a generic Triton PCI board, with
} built in I/O (2 COM 1 parallel). The BIOS is Award.

Me too, except I repaced the Award by a MRBios

} Everything seemed to go fine, I partitioned and formatted the hard drive,
} and then installwd Win95. I loaded the correct moused driver (Genius Serial
} for Win95) and reset. Not a sausage. I've tried both COM ports, but the
} pointer just sits there in the middle of the screen.

Yup, bastard it was to sort too.

} I tried to connect a modem to one of the COM ports, but windows thinks that
} it's being used by another device (ie busy).

It found my modem on Com1 but not the mouse on Com2

} I've looked at the BIOS settings, and there's not much to mess with, so I
} don't think the COM ports are set up wrong.
} Any suggestions?

I was such a bugger and I tried so many things I really can't remember
how I fixed it.

I remember making it a serial pointing device, I remember pissing
about in the Harware Services, and at some point I remember installing
the Logitec Combo mouse drivers the autoexec.bat has;
SET LMOUSE=D:\MOUSE in it but I don't know if this is nessessary.

Sorry :((

{R}
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From: Richard Ashton <richard@corixia.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Help - I can't get Win95 to work with my com ports
Date: 1996/04/19
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