On (17 Nov 99) Will Honea wrote to Stephen Haffly...

Hi Will,

SH> How come I can't seem to get the motherboard com ports working
SH> with OS/2 Warp 4?  I always have to disable them and put in a serial
SH> card. Meanwhile, DOS and the dominant OS seem to see and work with
SH> them just fine.
 WH> SH>
SH> This has been the case with more than one motherboard, anything
SH> from a 486VIP to my current VA-503+.  Is there a secret that I don't
SH> know about?

 WH> TO be succinct: beats the hell out of me!  Obvious questions:  do you
 WH> have the comm ports enabled as COM1, COM2 in the bios setup?  Did you
 WH> ever run 'full hardware detect' on boot? I'd ask if you had comm.sys
 WH> loaded, but since you see the addin board that would be insulting.
 WH> My 503 works like a champ - external modem on com2 - with the only
 WH> differnce being the use of SIO.

Thanks for the reply.  Answers:  Tried it with enabled as COM1 and COM2.
I don't recall if I did try the "full hardware detect", but didn't need
to do that with the add-in card for it to be detected.  Actually, I am
using SIO as well.  Maybe I need to revert back to comm.sys to test as
well.

I'm a bit leery about running the "full hardware detect".  Last time I
did it, it changed the settings for my sound card, and I had a devil of
a time getting sound back working the way it should.  I finally had to
boot to DOS and run a utility to reset the card back to what it should
have been.

I used to need three com ports with my old motherboard.  Now I run the
touchpad on the PS/2 port, and need com1 for my UPS and com2 for my
modem.


TTYL,

Stephen
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