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FDisk - "Dan Musicant" wrote in messagenews:k3o4nv0a8qjr5o4s3d7r7dqbkgdh30g742@4ax.com... On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 01:51:12 GMT, "Hooda Gest" wrote: : :"Dan Musicant" wrote in message :news:g9b4nv0qvimf03uucuveh0msuet4ftr3nc@4ax.com... :> On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 21:52:47 GMT, "Hooda Gest" wrote: :> OK, but let me ask a question: I didn't make any changes in the BIOS :> between my last install of Windows 2000 (in which the modem worked) and :> this install. Why would changing settings in the BIOS now have an :> effect? : :Because sometimes it works but most times it doesn't. PCI slots tend to :allow for sharing of IRQs but it isn't always smooth. In any event, the :reality is this: : :If you have an existing serial port and you try to put the modem on that :port, you end up with two serial ports using the same address and IRQ.This :creates a potential for conflict. It is best to disable the existing com :port or use a non-existent com port, such as Com3, and an unused IRQ orone :that can be shared without trouble (very few of those). : : :Why not try this and see if it works? I'll try it but I don't understand something. Right now there is Com1 and Com2. I don't see a Com3. I know because I was trying to set it up on Com3 because I read a post that said it had to be set up on Com3. Anyway, if I decide to set it up on, say, Com1, you say I should uninstall the modem and turn off the machine, remove the modem and then go into the BIOS and disable Com1. If I then insert the modem and boot, how could I set it up for Com1 if I've disabled Com1 in the BIOS? What am I not getting here? Thanks!What you are not grasping is that the internal modem emulates a com port, itdoes not use the existing com port on the mother board. After you installthe modem, the com port will appear again under W2K because that OS requiresit (don't understand the logic of this either). In Win98, the serial portemulated by the modem does not appear in the Device Manager. I also think,based on what I have read in here, that W2K's PnP capability leavessomething to be desired...Hey, glad you got it all working again. Reading that little story about theCPU fan suggests you have some problems with that motherboard that may comeback to haunt you. Reseting to defaults should have still allowed you toboot from the HD (default is usually "A:,C:") but maybe the default on thatBIOS is something I have not come across, like for a workstation (whichmight boot from the network).It's easy to make changes in the BIOS without realizing it. It is sometimesa smart thing to do to write down all settings when things are working wellso you have a copy for the possibility of a BIOS failure (yes, it's rare butit happens). You can fix time and date external to the BIOS, of course, butI would watch it closely, you may have a clock crystal problem or maybe abattery problem.--Hooda Gest"The only thing I do immediately is procrastinate."
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