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

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From: Mike Yates
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 00:00

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In article <AD9C83BD9668E571@albooth.demon.co.uk>, Andrew Booth
<ab@albooth.demon.co.uk> writes
>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.

Oh yes there is!
If this is a PCI MB, the IRQs are indeed a bastard to set up. 
Look in the PCI section of the BIOS setup for "IRQs assigned to slots".
See if you can disable "AUTO" (plug&pray) and mess about manually.
This is so tricky it is best to keep reseting to defaults on each trial boot, then
making only up to five changes, writing it all down.
It sounds like you've got network cards, scanners, sound-cards, CDrom
cards, even (older) VGA cards "hunting" the IRQs (normally IRQ4 for Com1,
IRQ3 for Com2) that you need.
Good luck - plug & pray!
Amen
-- 
Mike Yates         Frome   Somerset   England

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