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- From: rickcl@pogo.wv.tek.com (Rick Clements)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: Re: COM3 in Windows 3.0
- Message-ID: <14160@pogo.wv.tek.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 20:52:39 GMT
- References: <1992Dec16.022550.20786@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> <7JoVVB1w165w@bluemoon.use.com> <1992Dec16.162224.24606@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville, OR.
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- In article <1992Dec16.162224.24606@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> mechalas@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (John P. Mechalas) writes:
- >In article <7JoVVB1w165w@bluemoon.use.com> gerry@bluemoon.use.com (Gerard M. Foley) writes:
- [...]
- >>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
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- >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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- Some boards allow you to change your interrupts with a jumper. I tried playing
- with 3 COM ports a while ago. (I don't remember if it was Windows 3.0 or 3.1.)
- I could get Windows to recognize COM3 on IRQ5 SOMETIMES. Both terminal and the
- print spooler would hang up sometimes. It APPEARED that Windows looked at
- IRQ5 most of the time.
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- I gave up and got an old bus mouse. I put it on IRQ5, got rid of the third COM
- port and haven't had any trouble since.
- --
- Rick Clements (RickCl@pogo.WV.TEK.COM)
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