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- From: cn3141@coastalnet.com (Johnny)
- Newsgroups: interlog.support,alt.windows95,comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win95,comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.ibm.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.comm
- Subject: Re: Modem not connecting on COM2 under Win'95
- Date: Sun, 03 Mar 1996 22:01:19 GMT
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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.
-
-
- ======================================================================
- >> 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!
-
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