[ct-user] Re: More WinMe Questions

[Jim Brannigan]

Thanks to all of you for your ideas.......

I'm starting to work through this. So far I uninstalled the board, deleted
all the files and set Com1 and Lpt1 in CMOS (instead of AUTO). This got the
machine back to normal.
Interestingly, after I changed the CMOS settings, Logic 5 would not run and
had to be reinstalled.  I will keep all informed on my progress.

> 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,

When, in Logic5, I tried to set up my TNC on the new COM2, I got a
"hardware" error message and the machine locked up.

> 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
>
> ------------------
> 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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