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On Fri, 25 Jul 1997 15:09:10 +0200, Dale Chao wrote: >A few weeks ago there was some discussion of the 701CS screen getting all >mucked up by opening a DOS box. The recommended solutions included >Fn-F1-and-back and switching color depth. > >Well, I just wanted to pass along that I did a fresh FDISK/format/Win95 >install and that problem seems to have gone away. I did *nothing* to >interfere with Win95's hardware autodetect. > > >Also another update on a problem I had a ways back: multiport+2 PC cards >wouldn't work. It turns out there just weren't enough IRQs to go around. >Disabling a port I wasn't use in a new hardware configuration took care of >that one as well. > > > >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >Dale Chao >Concord, California >Primary Email: geige@usa.net >----------------------------------------------------------------------- > I eliminated that problem, so I can use the internal modem (irq 4), multiport 2 serial port (irq 3), lpt1 on multiport (irq 7) and/or lpt2 when floppy is not present (floppy-> irq6, lpt2-> irq5), no infrared, audio (0x200,irq10,dma1), Home & Away adapter in slot 2 (com 3, irq11), IBM Solid State File 5MB ATA Flash in slot 1 (sometimes irq9 or 15). All I did was edit the config.sys for OS/2 and add special parameters to stuff I could change. I think you should also be able to do so with Windows 95 or Linux or whatever, so long as you don't have a token ring card. Also, don't forget that the PS/2 mouse uses irq12 unless you disable it. Paul Regards, Paul Khoury pkhoury@earthlink.net