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- From: matthias@ecr.mu.oz.au (Matthias_Markus LANG)
- Subject: COM3/COM4 problems
- Message-ID: <9225621.16274@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
- Sender: news@cs.mu.OZ.AU
- Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 11:55:47 GMT
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- Today I bought (second hand) another I/O card. I already have one
- (2*serial, 1*games, 1*parallel). Also my CGA/Herc card has a parallel port.
- The new I/O card has a nine pin serial port, a 25 pin one, and a parallel port.
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- With infoplus and playing around with jumpers (no docs :-( ) I've got LPT2
- to be on that card. The CGA/Herc one is still disabled. I want the two new
- ports to be COM3/4. I've got them to stop being 1/2; COM1, COM2, LPT1 and
- LPT2 all work fine. No luck with COM3/COM4 though.
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- Infoplus reports two serial ports, $3F8/4 and $2F8/3. COM1&2.
- I've tried heaps of jumper configurations: when I get it right will
- 3/4 suddenly appear, or do I somehow tell my system about it? I thought
- you had to tell the BIOS somehow in the system area?
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- Thanks in advance.
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- Please send replies to hm@cloud.apana.org.au.
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