Re: Com port probs

[Steve Hultquist <ssh@wwsi.com>]

At 11:02 AM 7/3/96 PDT, Chris Osborn wrote:
>On Jul. 03 96, 10:47 PDT, "Steve Hultquist" <ssh@wwsi.com> wrote:
>
>> I have had a number of folks e-mail me that they have the same
>> problems, but no one has (apparently) found the solution. When I
>> get back to my light box (next Tuesday), I'll try to do an exhaustive
>> test of all comm ports to see what I can do. If anyone has a
>> solution, please post it and save me that effort!
>
>I too have had nothing but problems with the COM ports under Win95.
>For some reason Win95 tends to ignore the ThinkPad settings and
>discover COM ports that aren't really there, and assign them all
>the same IRQ.
>
>The only way I've ever been able to get things to work was to delete
>*all* of Win95's COM port drivers and reboot, going into Easy Setup
>and doing an initialization, and then letting Win95 re-discover
>the COM ports again.

Hmm.... What do you think the initialization did? Usually (as I understand
it) initialization just finalizes a BIOS update...

>After I did that, I'd use the ThinkPad tools to enable the port I
>really wanted, delete all of Win95's COM drivers *again*, reboot,
>and it seemed to figure out what was really going on.

Reboot, reboot, reboot.... Welcome to "easy" Windows 95!

>At least I *think* that was what I did.

OK. Thanks for the insight. I'll let you know what I find!

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