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

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



While I am uncertain why it worked after you swapped the devices, I
may have a suggestion that might work.

I have found that (occasionally) if you put the modem on COM 3 with an
IRQ of 5 it will work. The only problem is that IRQ5 is sometimes used
by the MIDI interface on the sound card.

Good luck

Victor
vabiro@terrorism.com

>Well my mouse is on COM1 and modem on COM2 and has caused no problems.
>Could the modem by any chance have jumpers set to COM1?

The modem is exteranl and was pluged in to COM2.  COM2 was set correctly.

-- 
Russell Keating, N9LIL  -----------> Send email to: russell1@intgp1.att.com

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.



>Thanks,
>Laurent.


>PS: CC by email is much appreciated.

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Halldor Gudmundsson
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fortin@igs.net (compsult) wrote:

>>While I am uncertain why it worked after you swapped the devices, I
>>may have a suggestion that might work.
>>
>>I have found that (occasionally) if you put the modem on COM 3 with an
>>IRQ of 5 it will work. The only problem is that IRQ5 is sometimes used
>>by the MIDI interface on the sound card.

I have the same setting as above but, when my computer bootup, a message 
saying that "System Board Device Resource Conflict". I am sure the sound card 
use the IRQ=10 in win95. Why?

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!

Johnny wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> ======================================================================
> >> 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!


I have not actually tried to change my drive, but under settings/control 
panel, double click on system.  Then under cdrom, go to the settings.  
At the bottom of the dialog, there is start drive, end drive, and so on.

Todd Bailey  (tbailey@tricon.net)