There is a little program I found a few years ago called CHECKIRQ.COM that
will usually reports COM ports and IRQ's correctly. About the best one
I've
found is QAPLUS diagnostic program - it will tell you if you have the
I/O address' and IRQ's set up the way you think you do. All of this is,
of course, when you come up to a DOS or COMMAND prompt and do not run the
Windows GUI (3.1, 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 etc) if that is what you have
installed
on the hard drive.
73 Hank K8DD
At 01:34 PM 06-10-00 -0400, dap14@daimlerchrysler.com wrote:
>Scott
>
>The fact that CW keying works on all four ports is probably a clue
>that you
>have IRQ problems.
>
>Keep in mind that you CANNOT share IRQs to run NA. Each port needs
>its own
>address and IRQ. Also, you can't count on "plug-and-play" under
>Windows to
>set up the ports correctly for a DOS program?
>
>Is COM1 shared with an on-board modem?
>
>What you really need is a tool to verify IRQ settings *under DOS*. FYI,
>the Microsoft Diagnostics program (MSD.EXE) does NOT, repeat NOT, report
>IRQs correctly for COM3 and COM4. You might have to do some "trial and
>error" to verify the IRQs.
>
>Dave Pruett, K8CC
>DATOM Engineering
>
>
>
>
>
>"Scott Dickson, W5WZ" <W5WZ@arrl.net>@contesting.com on 10/06/2000
>07:34:43
>AM
>
>Please respond to "Scott Dickson, W5WZ" <W5WZ@arrl.net>
>
>Sent by: owner-na-user@contesting.com
>
>
>To: na-user@contesting.com
>cc:
>
>Subject: [na-user] Rig control puzzle
>
>
>
>W5LA and I recently discovered that we could only get rig control to work
>on COM 2, but not COM 1, 3, or 4. We both run NA 10.49 with Icom IC-756
>radios. The only hardware difference between our setup is our
>computers. On COM 2, rig control works perfectly, but will not work
>at all
>on the other COM ports.
>
>Of course, since it does work on COM 2, we are able to use rig
>control. It
>is just puzzling that it won't work on the other 3 ports. CW keying can
>successfully be run off all 4 ports.
>
>
>-
>
>Scott Dickson, W5WZ
>
>-
>
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