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Re: Enhanced IDE cards disable Modem

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From: leo
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 00:00
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In article <828362025snz@genial.demon.co.uk> fred@genial.demon.co.uk  writes:

> 
>  I have recently upgraded to a VESA 486 DX2 66 Green Board and for a 
>  while was using a standard IDE 16 bit I/O card. By altering the jumpers 
>  on the i/o card I had 3 comms ports at 03F8 02F8 and 02E8 when my Zoltrix
>  FM-VSP144UI voice/fax modem was installed on comm2 irq3 02F8 and 
>  everything worked fine.
> 
>  I then bought a PT 627B Enhanced IDE card and it works fine with DOS 
>  and Windows 3.11,  _BUT_  I cannot get my modem to work with it despite 
>  trying all logical jumpers variations to disable comm2 or reset comm2 
>  to comm4. 
> 
>  COMIT /dc (diagnostics) then reports more than 1 card on comm2 and 
>  modem will click but not respond to AT commands.
> 
>  So I bought another EIDE card, a PT628B and I still have the same 
>  problem. All reasonable and logical jumper settings have been tried 
>  without success.  
> 
>  Any suggestions on solving this problem would be greatly appreciated.
>  TIA


Are you sure that you only have hardware for one set of serial ports?



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leo
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