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Article #69028Help - I can't get Win95 to work with my com ports
From: Andrew Booth
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 00:00
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Hi, I was wondering if you could help me with a problem that I'm having with my mouse and serial ports. 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. 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. 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). 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? Cheers, Andy Booth
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1036bc,855f861531b53fad,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1036bc,public From: ab@albooth.demon.co.uk (Andrew Booth) Subject: Help - I can't get Win95 to work with my com ports Date: 1996/04/18 Message-ID: <AD9C83BD9668E571@albooth.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 148345875 distribution: world x-nntp-posting-host: albooth.demon.co.uk newsgroups: demon.tech.pc