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

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From: Andrew Booth
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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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
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