At 12:15 PM 1/20/97 EST, you wrote:
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>>However, under Win 3.1 the IRQ is _settable_ for each com port
>>(under ports, click on the port, then click on Advanced). Doing that, you
>>should be able to move the conflicting Com ports to another IRQ (I know the
>>modem I installed supports IRQs in addition to the standard ones).
>
>I think this is more of a hardware feature unique to your PC that allows
>software configuration.  I haven't seen too many PCs (some laptops) that
>allow you to change Serial Port Configurations (although in the laptop cases
>you have to reboot). I have seen many PCs that allow the user to change the
>Port Configuration, but this has to be done from a power-up screen.

I installed an internal modem in a friends' 486 a few days ago. I set it as
Com3, then changed the IRQ to one other than the default. On the modem,
there was a jumper. Under Windows 3.1, as I said, under "ports", under
"advanced" I changed the IRQ to match the (non-default) I had set on the
modem. The configuration was changed _under_ Windows and _not_ the powerup
screen. The problem was the motherboard had Com1 & Com2 installed already,
and a PS/2 mouse running from another port (no idea how). I could _not_
control/disable the built-in ports, so I decided to work around them to get
at the modem, and it worked fine. If Win 3.1 can do this, I can't imagine
Win'95 _not_ doing it (possible, I suppose).

Chris

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