Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!csource!david From: david@csource.oz.au (david nugent) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Conflicting Cards. Help Needed. Message-ID: <750@csource.oz.au> Date: 5 Nov 90 19:16:54 GMT References: <1207@vaxeline.COM> Organization: Unique Computing Pty Ltd, Melb, Aust. Lines: 26 In <1207@vaxeline.COM> gordon@vaxeline.COM (*Hobbit*) writes: >C:\> debug >-d 40:0 >0040:0000 F8 03 00 00 00 00 00 00-BC 03 78 03 00 00 00 00 >-q >C:\> >You will know that your system is configured correctly when the values >at location 0040:0000 look something like this: >-d 40:0 >0040:0000 F8 03 F8 02 00 00 00 00-BC 03 78 03 00 00 00 00 Unfortunately, this doesn't work on most systems if you install a 16550A on the port. Most BIOS's seem to fail the chip in their fairly simple diagnostic, so very often you need to run some "corrective" software which fills both in this area in BIOS correctly and updates the hardware bits which are returned from INT 11H. -- Fidonet: 3:632/348 SIGnet: 28:4100/1 Imex: 90:833/387 Data: +61-3-885-7864 Voice: +61-3-826-6711 Internet/ACSnet: david@csource.oz.au Uucp: ..!uunet!munnari!csource!david