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- From: Dave English <DavidE@turnpike.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps.comm,comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.comm
- Subject: Re: Cardinal 28.8 and Windows Problems
- Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 09:43:03 +0100
- Organization: Turnpike Ltd
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- In article <4jvj7a$7o4@io.innovplace.saskatoon.sk.ca>, Todd Cocks
- <tcocks@eagle.wbm.ca> writes
- >Today I went out and purchased a Cardinal 28.8 (MVP288I). I was the
- >previous purchaser of a Cardinal 14.4 softmodem which required
- >softwared to be downloaded into it's chip on use. I currently am
- >using Windows for Workgroups and will be converting to Windows 95 in
- >the near future. Carefully I tried to remove all traces of the 14.4
- >software on my system and then I removed the old 14.4 and installed
- >the 28.8. Everything seems fine, I can use my modem completely under
- >windows without any apparent problems. No problems that is *except*
- >for this message when I try to boot Windows:
- >
- >Ring 0 Systems: Virtual 16550 Driver Board was not found in your
- >computer! Virtual 16550 & communication buffering in the DOS box will
- >not work. It may cause lost bytes during the data transfer or any
- >other problems with communication software running under v86 DOS.
- >
- >Could someone shine a light on what this means? I thought that the
- >28.8 included a 16550 UART chip on board (at least the manual says it
- >does). I really would like to tie this down fast because if the modem
- >is no good, I want to take it back asap.. Thanks for any help you can
- >give.
-
- I very much sounds as though you have not removed all the 14.4 soft
- modem software.
-
- Perhaps someone with this 14.4 softmodem could list for you what is
- installed and therefor what you ave to remove.
-
- Trying to help
- --
- Dave English, T U R N P I K E Ltd
- Dorking Business Park, DORKING, Surrey, UK. RH4 1HN
- My other computer's a brain
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