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Freezes up
Name: Rochelle Date: April 10, 1999 at 15:39:28 Pacific
Comment:
I'm writing for a friend. He has Win. '95 when it boots up he gets a error: 3F8H?com address error. Windows opens but freezes up. Can anyone help? Thanks
Name: Bruce Date: April 10, 1999 at 16:39:29 Pacific
Reply:
There's a resource conflict (I/O range), check the device manager under ports, two things are trying to use one address. Try assigning a differnt address to the one that's conflicting, but write the current settings down first. Without knowing anything on his system, that's all I can suggest.
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Response Number 2
Name: ergmiester Date: April 10, 1999 at 16:46:14 Pacific
Reply:
Thats the Io address for com1. could be an internal modem on com1 and the serial mouse is trying to use it. Or try disabling the ext com1/serialA port in BIOS setup.
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