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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Modem Problems with Windows 3.1
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.204725.23130@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <q2aDPB1w164w@buscard.fidonet.org> <1992Aug12.171034.15226@athena.cs.uga.edu>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 20:47:25 GMT
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- In <1992Aug12.171034.15226@athena.cs.uga.edu> cstripli@harpo.dev.uga.edu (Cletus Stripling) writes:
-
- >In article <q2aDPB1w164w@buscard.fidonet.org> sharky@buscard.fidonet.org (Gary Sciacca) writes:
- >>Anyone know why I would modem problems with windows and
- >>not in DOS. I have 2 com ports and 1 internal modem at
- >>com 3. The mouse is working fine as com 2 in windows
- >>but I'm having flacky probs with and windows application
- >>that uses a modem. Hangs system, with faults, download
- >>problems. If I use the internal modem with Procomm
- >>under DOS 5.0 only, everthing works fine. Do I have some
- >>kind of interrupt conflict maybe ?? Windows does use
- >>the mouse and the modem at the same time where Procomm
- >>wouldn't. Didn't seem to have many problems under windows
- >>3.0. I'm running a 286 system in case that matters.
- >>
- >>Thanks,
- >>Gary
- >>
- >>
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- >Choose Control Panel under the main window or group, open up the icon for
- >ports and make sure that under the settings you have the address 03E8
- >entered as the base port address. Also make sure that the Interrupt request
- >is set for 4. Initially both of these options may be set to "default".
- >When I've had problems in the past this has seemed to clear them up.
-
- No, this won't help. I suspect his problem is that his modem on COM3
- is set to use IRQ4, which is where COM1 lives. He needs to change the
- IRQ that the modem is using ON THE HARDWARE. There should be a jumper
- for this. Switch it to IRQ2 (possible EGA conflict) or IRQ5 (LPT2
- conflict). Then tell Windows where COM3 lives, using the method
- described above.
-
-
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