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From: silver@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Andy Silverman)
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Subject: Re: Hardware Weirdness with add-on boards
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Date: 17 Apr 89 21:45:33 GMT
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In reference to the previous postings trying to resolve conflicts between
serial ports, it should be noted that not only serial cards should be checked
for these potential conflicts.  For example, my Microsoft Bus Mouse card
can use any of several hardware interrupts, two of them being the interrupts
usually used by the COM ports.  In my case, I had no choice but to use this
setting since all the other alternatives were taken up by my HD controller,
EGA card, etc. 

The point here is that other cards which use the COM port interrupts for their
own purposes may be causing the problem.

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