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From: rra90329@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: MSWindows and Modems.
Message-ID: <111700056@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 28 Mar 89 18:39:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!rra90329    Mar 28 12:39:00 1989


Hi! I've got a strange problem, and after about two hours of playing with dip-
switches, I realized I'm stuck.

I'm running Windows 2.01, a Logitech 3-button serial ouse, and the Telix
shareware telecom program with a Zuckerboard 1200 baud modem. Windows works with
the mouse set as COM1 (the only choice with mt stupid serial board). The modem
works fine set as COM3, but not as COM2.?!

The only clue I have is that the documentation that came with the Computer and 
Serial board (A Turbo Laser XT:The Same thing they now sell at Sears) is that
one can add a second serial port with additional hardware, ,and there is a dip-
switch to enable or disable COM2. But with the either choice, Telix dies at the
'initalizing the modem' stage, even though the bios and a diagnostig program I 
have both report 2 com ports at the correct addresses.

Fine, I thought, I'll set up the Modem as COM3. Everything works, BUT...
when I go back to Windows after telcomming, there is no mouse. The only whay to
fix this is to either 1)load mouse.com, the driver, which I should NOT need for
Windows and will cause Telix to die next time, or 2)warm reboot.

Why?!?!?!? Even better, what can I do?!?!?

I'm sorry this is so complicated, but I wanted to include everything that might 
be relevant. Any good guesses will be more than welcome.

First God made man, then he made computers. After that..
ra446@suna0.cs.uiuc.edu