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mwave & win95
95 ran great for the first couple weeks. still does on one 755cd, but two
other cd's and a 755cse all started having the same problem: the modem moved
from com2 to com1 & it won't move back. communications software gets no
response from the modem. device manager shows the mwave 28.8 on com1, in grey
so it can't be changed.
the wierd thing is that it doesn't follow the o/s. if i switch hard drives
between the working 755cd (mwave correctly recognized & working on com2) and
one of the bad ones, 95 automatically reconfigures each & the problem follows
the machine. i'd guess it's a problem with the mwave if were only one machine,
but three out of four that i've upgraded all did the same thing within a few
weeks of upgrading (actually, the cse did it immediately & never worked). i
used the latest bios from the 'win95 thinkpad page.' in fact, i used the exact
same bios diskette for all of them.
also, there's a new device under 'ports' called the 'ibm mwave communications
port (com1)' and if i remove it, 95 autodetects & reinstalls it when i reboot.
i can't move it to com2 & i can't create one like it on com2. the only thing i
can do is disable it for the current configuration, but then communications
software says 'the modem is being used by another program' instead of 'modem
not responding.'
any ideas before i call the personal systems hold center?
Michael J. Verne
michael_verne@vmedia.com
Systems Analyst, Ventana Communications Group
http://www.vmedia.com/michaelv/
Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.
--Popular Mechanics, 1949