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

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From: Jeff Ankin
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 00:00
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On Thu, 18 Apr 1996 23:41:49 +0100, ab@albooth.demon.co.uk (Andrew Booth) wrote:

>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.

Try looking at the Irq`s & resources the comm ports are using.
In Win95 click start/settings/control panel
Double click system icon, double click ports, highlight one of them with right
mouse button & choose properties & then resources to see if theres a conflict.
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From: pennylane@enterprise.net (Jeff Ankin)
Subject: Re: Help - I can't get Win95 to work with my com ports
Date: 1996/04/19
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