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Re: [ECS] com ports Dan Carrington Fri, 29 Jan 1999 09:10:35 -0800

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Yes, if it is not plug-and-pray.  You go to "Add new hardware" and you
can try to have windows autodetect the new ports.  Winblows may have
even detected them at startup and popped up a message saying so at
bootup.  If Winblows does not autodetect them, you go to "Add new
hardware" and when it says hit next to autodetect, hit the other button
to do it manually and add a com port or parallel port one at a time. 
Then you can go to your system and hardware profile and change the
addresses and IRQ's as required.  You then may need to fight Winblows
for the use of the IRQ's.  

Dan



Kevin Keast wrote:
> 
> Dan,
> 
> I have a question on your board.  I just bought a cheapie from ebay, $9 for
> a 4com port ISA card.  It did not have any docs with it (not suprised) but
> it is new.  Do you just set the jumpers plug it in and play the IRQ game
> with windows 95?
> 
> Kevin
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dan Carrington [mailto:dc_grafx@microworks.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 1999 10:46 PM
> > To: ecs-list@netbloc.com
> > Subject: Re: [ECS] com ports
> >
> >
> > I have a Flex-Port in my Dos automation machine and one in my personal
> > Winblows machine and both work without problems.  They are the Flex-42
> > (4 com and 2 printer), they have many settings for the com ports and/but
> > are not plug-and-pray.  In my dos machine I just set them to port
> > settings that were not in use and put it in the machine.  All work.  In
> > my Winblows machine I had to fight with windows to create the ports and
> > set them up without it saying I have tons of conflicts.  I had to fight
> > for Winblows to let me set the address and IRQ.
> >
> > Dan Carrington
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > paul venables wrote:
> > >
> > > hi all
> > > I would like to know what serial port boards you are using with Esc
> > > (dos version)flex,Boca.dig etc..
> > > any feed back would be great.
> > > I bought the Boca bb1008  (8 serial ports  sharing one Iraq) but I
> > > have been informed that it will not work with Esc dos so I am going to
> > > return it  ( I hope) and get another one that the rest of you are
> > > using.
> > > the Boca requires the software support of irq polling.
> > > thanks in advance
> > > Paul
> > >
> >

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