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At 11:02 AM 7/3/96 PDT, Chris Osborn wrote: >On Jul. 03 96, 10:47 PDT, "Steve Hultquist" <ssh@wwsi.com> wrote: > >> I have had a number of folks e-mail me that they have the same >> problems, but no one has (apparently) found the solution. When I >> get back to my light box (next Tuesday), I'll try to do an exhaustive >> test of all comm ports to see what I can do. If anyone has a >> solution, please post it and save me that effort! > >I too have had nothing but problems with the COM ports under Win95. >For some reason Win95 tends to ignore the ThinkPad settings and >discover COM ports that aren't really there, and assign them all >the same IRQ. > >The only way I've ever been able to get things to work was to delete >*all* of Win95's COM port drivers and reboot, going into Easy Setup >and doing an initialization, and then letting Win95 re-discover >the COM ports again. Hmm.... What do you think the initialization did? Usually (as I understand it) initialization just finalizes a BIOS update... >After I did that, I'd use the ThinkPad tools to enable the port I >really wanted, delete all of Win95's COM drivers *again*, reboot, >and it seemed to figure out what was really going on. Reboot, reboot, reboot.... Welcome to "easy" Windows 95! >At least I *think* that was what I did. OK. Thanks for the insight. I'll let you know what I find! ssh -- Steve Hultquist Founder Worldwide Solutions, Inc. Web, Internet, LANs, WANs, Routing, Switching, Unix, PCs, NT, 95, OS/2 Network and systems provider for JavaOne http://www.wwsi.com/ 303.581.0800 Boulder, Colorado, USA