[ct-user] Re: More WinMe Questions

[Paul M. Elliott]

Jim,

Your setup sounds very much like mine -- CT and LOGic 5 on a WinMe machine
with an SIIG board.  I don't experience lockup problems in either CT or
LOGic 5 (though of course I can't use both at the same time).  I don't think
drivers are your problem.  I made NO driver changes when I switched from
Win98 to WinMe.  It sounds like the SIIG board might have "stolen" one or
more of the COMM ports that your LOGic setup is expecting to use.  I had
that problem at first -- in my case I think it was the packet connection,
possibly also the CW keyer.  There was also a conflict between the new COMM
port IRQs and my CD-ROM drive.

The solution was to find an IRQ combination that would work with the SIIG
board in the mix.  So I'd say, don't give up.  Replacing the SIIG board with
something else isn't going to change anything. You're still going to have to
sort out IRQ assignments, regardless of what you use to add COMM ports.
Unless you simply didn't have enough usable IRQs to install additional COMM
ports in the first place -- highly unlikely -- there is a workable set of

interrupts that will let all these pieces of hardware and software coexist
happily.  It may just take more analysis to find it.

The final step is to make sure to document it, so that if you ever add or
change peripherals, or Windows' plug-and-play feature decides to mess with
the IRQ assignments all by itself one day (it happens), you can re-implement
the setup that works.

73 - Paul Elliott N3GPU

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Jim Brannigan wrote:

I got DOS to work on an Me machine, now I'm trying to add COMM ports.

This AM I tried to install a SIIG PCI serial board....I had driver problems,
got new drivers from their WEB site, but my Windows logging program (Logic5)
locked up.  so I still have driver problems.

I'm going to return the SIIG board.  Does anyone know of a serial board that
WILL work with WIN Me?


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