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- From: mechalas@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (John P. Mechalas)
- Subject: Re: COM3 in Windows 3.0
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.162224.24606@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
- References: <1992Dec16.022550.20786@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> <7JoVVB1w165w@bluemoon.use.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 16:22:24 GMT
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- In article <7JoVVB1w165w@bluemoon.use.com> gerry@bluemoon.use.com (Gerard M. Foley) writes:
- >mechalas@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (John P. Mechalas) writes:
- >> You either have to move your mouse to COM2 (something Windows 3.0 also
- >> probably won't agree with) or move your modem to COM2. You *might* try
- >> putting it on COM4, but the way Windows is with 3 and 4, I doubt it'll work..
- >>
- > I have had the same problem. Although I am now in Windows 3.1,
- >I think I remember that on 3.0 I could reassign my mouse to COM2,
- >put the modem on COM3 and the external RS-232 on COM1. The IRQ's
- >now are COM1 RS232 IRQ4
- > COM2 Mouse IRQ3
- > COM3 Modem IRQ5
- >Hope you have luck.
-
- How were you able to install COM3 on IRQ5? Were you using software or some
- other method ot re-assign COM3? I didn't think there was anything you
- could do about the default IRQ assignments...
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