[WriteLog] Windows XP Multifunction Card

[Phil Duff]

I'm running XP Home Ed. with latest updates and have been using a CompUSA 
PCI serial/parallel port card.  It's their p/n 271773.   It's not a 3 or 4 
port card however.  Only two serial.   It's pretty economical card so 
perhaps you could to disable the Dell COM1 port in your BIOS setup and use 
two of these cards for 4 COM ports?

Specs: 2 RS232 ports w. UART FIFO 16C550, COM1 is a DB9, COM2 is DB25, 
supports remapping
              to ISA addresses 3F8,2F8,3E8,2E8 (COM1,2,3,4)
              1 parallel port w. SPP/PS2/BPP/EPP/ECP mode
               IRQ sharing, no jumper setting

The package has the PCI card w. one COM and the parallel port, and a 
secondary COM port panel.

73 Phil NA4M


At 11:10 3/8/2003 -0500, Ted Huf W4ZE wrote:

>Could anyone recommend a Windows XP Service Pack 1 compatibly PCI
>multifunction card so I can add  3 or 4 RS-232 com ports and a printer LPT
>port?  I suppose that with a PCI card, interrupts will not be a problem?
>
>This Dell computer came with only 1 of each.  I had trouble with RF trying
>to use a Xircom USB multifunction and it is not supported on XP now anyway.
>
>Ted Huf
>W4ZE
>Hickory, PA
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