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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: How to change IRQ of modem
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.230325.6745@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1992Dec16.054523.17676@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 23:03:25 GMT
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- In <1992Dec16.054523.17676@wam.umd.edu> adhir@wam.umd.edu (Al Dhir) writes:
-
- >Hello all, I have a 486/50eisa, am running OS/2, and have tons of cards
- >in my machine, including a v.32bis faxmodem, a 2s/1p/1g/2ide multi I/O
- >card, a Gravis Ultrasound, a SCSI card, a eisa IDE card and an eisa
- >video card. My question is this:
-
- >I have seen numerous references to some techinique by which people modify
- >their cards (or their motherboard?) to force it to use a different IRQ.
- >Presently, I have one of my COM ports disabled since my modem insists on
- >being either IRQ3 or IRQ4, and my piece of junk multi I/O card insists on
- >the same. What I want to do is somehow rig the modem to be on IRQ2 or on
- >one of the IRQs between 10 and 15.
-
- >Can someone send me detailed instructions on how to do this, please?
-
- No one can send you detailed instructions on how to do this because
- they would have to know what kind of "v.32bis faxmodem" you have.
- These things are accomplished through the use of little jumpers on the
- boards. Might I suggest talking to the dealer you got it from or
- looking the the manual?
-
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