Charles May wrote:

>Mike
>Thanks for the reply.  Maybe some headway is being made.  I put my 
>answers right below your comments.
>  
>
>>Hi Charles,
>>COM1 uses as default IRQ4, COM2 uses IRQ3, so as you have now got the
>>"conflict" on IRQ4 vice IRQ3 after turning off COM1 in
the BIOS that
>>explains why.  Is your video card in an AGP or PCI slot? It doesn't
>>appear to have the features AGP speed/AGP enabled from below. 
>>    
>>
>
>I have never opened the case on this computer but I looked in the 
>boooklet that came with it.  It shows 5 slots and so does the picture of 
>the back of the case.  The first slot is an AGP slot and that is where 
>the video is placed.  Not hearing about AGP until now I was using the 
>factory setting.  Should I enable AGP?
>  
>
>>I've extracted out the IRQ/INT relevant - do you have all those USB
>>controllers actually enabled - with USB equipment hanging off them yet? 
>>I imagine you can disable some of them in your config.sys.
>>    
>>
>
>Presently, the only USB port I am using is for the mouse.  Under ECS the 
>only other possible use I foresee is the potential later addition of a 
>scanner.  I do have a digital camera that I have only hooked up to my 
>older WIN98 computer.  I can't see being able to use the camera in ECS 
>for the moment.  I can certainly turn some off for ECS.  You indicate I 
>can do that by editing the config.sys file.  I have not looked yet at 
>what may be involved.
>
>A friend has informed me that he thinks the SMBus is the system 
>management bus that reports temperature, fan speed, and some other 
>sensor data back to you. I'm not sure if it does anything else or if it 
>is ok to disable it.
>
>I should also report that I have two open slots on this computer so I 
>could try moving the sound card if that should be tried.  BTW one of the 
>nice features about this case is that it is hinged and opens up.  I have 
>so learned to hate fighting with the slide on covers and trying to get 
>it back in place.
>
>You brought up the modem.  Does something need to be done there.  It is 
>on IRQ 3.
>  
>

Hi Charles,
Please try to cut out as much of previous traffic as possible from the 
message - it takes ages panning down to see what's needed as well as 
using up more bandwidth.
Will get back to you later - a little busy at the moment - but yes 
definitely enable the AGP in the BIOS for a start - modem will be on 
COM2/IRQ3  whilst COM1 is disabled in the BIOS.  If you can determine 
whether you have the mouse plugged into one of the lower speed USB1.x 
[12Mb/sec] ports or one of the USB 2.x[480Mb/sec] ports - it should 
*only* be on a LOW speed USB port - then you can REM out any EHCI USB 
entries, for the moment. I'm not sure which of the OHCI/UHCI controllers 
would be the applicable one to disable in addition - suck it and see!  
you're going to HAVE to open the drop-down side - sounds similar to the 
Mac Desktops that also have the motherboard mounted on the side that 
drops down - you wouldn't want to get stung by a wasp while opening it 
would you,  in their case [pun], and look at what's inside it - it won't 
bite you!

See ya later.

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Regards,
Mike

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