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hg@ht.is (Halldor Gudmundssson) wrote:

>ldh@interlog.com (Laurent-Daid Hasson) wrote:

>>I just went through a couple of hours of pure hell... I installed a new mouse 
>>and a new modem on my machine: i connected the mouse to COM1 and the modem to 
>>COM2. When i restarted Win'95, everything seemed to work: The modem was 
>>recognized properly, tested and all.

>>Then i create my internet connection, but it refuses to connect with the modem, 
>>complaining that the modem is not properly atached. I re-booted, tested the 
>>modem again with the diagnostic tab in the hardware seting, and everything 
>>checked out alright...

>>Out of frustration, i took a desperate and stupid decision to switch the mouse 
>>and modem so that the modem would be on COM1 and the mouse, on COM2.... IT 
>>WORKED !!!! 

>I have had the same problem several times,  blame it on Win95


>>I have no idea why it worked that way, and not the other, and i would love it if 
>>someone could enligthen me.


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>> I don't know how much this will enlighten anyone - just another piece of the puzzle, but here it goes:

I installed a pnp 28.8 modem in place of my old 14.4.  The 14.4 worked
happily at com 2 IRQ 3.  Windows 95 detects the new 28.8 and decides
com 3 at IRQ 5 is better.  My sound card didn't appreciate that, since
it wanted IRQ 5 all for it's own, the selfish bastard.  Anyway, to
make a long story short,  after numerous attempts to manually change
settings, I reinstalled Win 95 over the top and that solved everthing.
Well, almost everything.  Dos based games that use sound (all of them)
still couldn't accesss the sound card, although the midi device
worked.  A litttle more tweaking solved that.   The moral here, I
guess is to be persistent.  By the way, does anyone have any idea on
how to manually set the drive letter for the CD player in Win 95?  All
my shortcuts point to drive E, where it used to be, but it insists on
defaulting to drive D unless I load the old DOS MSCDEX, which is
draining my conv mem.  HELP!