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> 95 ran great for the first couple weeks. still does on one 755cd, but two > other cd's and a 755cse all started having the same problem: the modem moved > from com2 to com1 & it won't move back. communications software gets no > response from the modem. device manager shows the mwave 28.8 on com1, in grey > so it can't be changed. > > the wierd thing is that it doesn't follow the o/s. if i switch hard drives > between the working 755cd (mwave correctly recognized & working on com2) and > one of the bad ones, 95 automatically reconfigures each & the problem follows > the machine. i'd guess it's a problem with the mwave if were only one machine, > but three out of four that i've upgraded all did the same thing within a few > weeks of upgrading (actually, the cse did it immediately & never worked). i > used the latest bios from the 'win95 thinkpad page.' in fact, i used the exact > same bios diskette for all of them. > > also, there's a new device under 'ports' called the 'ibm mwave communications > port (com1)' and if i remove it, 95 autodetects & reinstalls it when i reboot. > i can't move it to com2 & i can't create one like it on com2. the only thing i > can do is disable it for the current configuration, but then communications > software says 'the modem is being used by another program' instead of 'modem > not responding.' > > any ideas before i call the personal systems hold center? > > > Michael J. Verne > michael_verne@vmedia.com > Systems Analyst, Ventana Communications Group > http://www.vmedia.com/michaelv/ > Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons. > --Popular Mechanics, 1949 > > I once had the same problem. I probably had forgotten to initialize the BIOS after upgrading it. Anyway it worked OK after initializing it. -- //// Harald Skotnes // Email: harald@staff.cs.uit.no / /// Dept. of Computer Science // Phone: +47 77 64 41 16 // // University of Tromsoe // Fax: +47 77 64 40 54 /// / N-9037 TROMSOE NORWAY // Like it or not, it's One World ////