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- From: zejulio@individual.puug.pt (Julio Silva)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Help! Why can't I change IRQ in Win95?
- Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 12:49:56 GMT
- Organization: PUUG - Grupo Portugues de Utilizadores do Sistema UNIX
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- On Mon, 18 Mar 1996 09:38:51 GMT, owen@vir.com (Owen Egan) wrote:
-
- >I just tried to install my good old Supra 14.4 internal modem in a
- >friend's Win95 box.
- >
- >I usually use COM3 and IRQ5 with no problem, but on this machine when
- >I went to change the IRQ from its default of 4, Win95 said that the
- >setting could not be changed!
- >
- >Why?
- >
- >This was after I had set the jumpers on the modem for COM3 and IRQ5,
- >and let Win95 auto-detect the new port.
- >
- >I remember on =my= system being allowed by Win95 to easily the IRQ in
- >the Device Manager.
- >
- >Does anyone know why a different machine would say the setting cannot
- >be changed?
-
- Have you any sound blaster ? Usually the sound blasters use IRQ 5,
- there's may have an conflict.
-
- -JS-
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