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- From: amdf@telepac.pt (Agostinho M. Silva Ferreira)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: S3 and COM4
- Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 02:48:21 GMT
- Organization: telepac
- Message-ID: <4epd4f$qim@vivaldi.telepac.pt>
- References: <MODEMS-L%96013010012473@VM.ITS.RPI.EDU>
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- Turgut Kalfaoglu <TURGUT%TREARN.BITNET@VM.ITS.RPI.EDU> wrote:
-
- >Did anyone know that S3 croaks if you have a COM4?
- >
- >I discovered it, asked around, and someone confirmed it as well.
- >
- >I have a Diamond Stealth Video PCI card.. I added a COM4. At VGA
- >resolution, everything is fine. as soon as you install the SVGA
- >drivers, you can no longer open a DOS FULL SCREEN session (this is
- >under OS/2 Warp Connect).. it just freezes so bad that you have to hit
- >RESET button.
- >
- >Something about an I/O address conflict..
- >-turgut
- >
- >Turgut kalfaoglu, TERENA staff on network programming
- >SYSOP of bbsturk.ege.edu.tr - 4.5GB of OS/2+MSDOS sw;Fido/VirtualNet/Hitnet
- >A random quote:
- >THE GOLDEN RULE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
- >The one who has the gold makes the rules.
-
- I have an video card uing a S3 based chip, and I take 2 hours to
- understand that :
- I couldn┤t put my modem on com 4, it don┤t work at this place, and
- the unique solution was : put my mouse on com 2, and my modem on
- com 3.
- It was be les dificulte if I has read my video board user guide, it┤s
- explain that steep by steeps, Using S3 based chip, overload com 4 for
- any communication connection.
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- Agostinho Ferreira, From Coimbra, Portugal, amdf@telepac.pt
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