[Ham-Computers] Locked Resource Config W98 (was: Lack of com ports problem)

[Bruce - KB6LWN/rcc]

Thanks Dwight,

Sounds like you're pretty good w/Win...

You bring to mind a problem I ran into when removing
an Ethernet card from a neighbors computer because
it was sharing/conflict with the same IRQ as the
modem (IRQ-11).  Actually TWO problems, the second
being that when the e3 card drivers where deleted,
they evidently took some needed drivers/protocols
that were needed by NetZero app', so that's refusing
to operate beyond dialing the modem and connecting.
(no tcp/ip comms, tried to re-ins TCP/IP but no disk)

The OS (Win98) had originally been installed with
the e3 card installed and w/o the modem there.

After the e3 card was removed and the support in
the 'device manager' deleted and system rebooted,
and we STILL had problems, I went in to attempt
a change of the modem to another IRQ, but even
after un-checking the 'auto' selection the OS
would NOT let me modify the IRQ resource.
(popped up the 'can not change' message box)

Any thoughts as to WHY this didn't work ?

I'm not sure if the modem has 'jumpers' but I'm
guessing it does NOT, as it's a PCI card (I my-
self haven't been into the case (yet), the neigh-
bor was the one that removed the hardware).

My plan is to wipe the HD and re-install the OS
(but I'm going to show him Lunux and OS/2 first ;).
but this is going to require that he BUY the M$
disks as he wasn't provided any with the system.
(bought it from a computer 'recycler')

Thanks,
         Bruce

On Sat, 18 May 2002, Dgb wrote:

> 
> I would re-enable com2 in the bios,  change the modem's jumper
> back to use com4 and let it use irq3 if it wants to. Then go into
> system properties, device manager, double click on com2, then
> click on the resources tab. There you unclick the "Use automatic
> setting" box and then you can change com2's irq to something
> else, and if you pick an irq used by something else it will tell
> you at the moment if there are any conflicts.


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