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Subject: 
Re: Help needed!
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lugnet.robotics.handyboard
Date: 
Wed, 31 Mar 1999 06:58:47 GMT
Original-From: 
Will Bain <willbain@cs.umt.edu#nospam#>
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lectro@acadiacom.net wrote:

I had a similar problem and had to try a different serial port. I have a
serial mouse and the board will only work properly in com 1. If I try com
2, I get similar problems to yours

keith

DOING!  Yeah, now that you mention it, I had the same problem when I got my HB.  Took me about a week before I got around to trying COM1.  That fixed it, so I left it that way and forgot about it long ago.  At the time, no one on the list had any helpful suggestions for me, either.

Anyone else out there had problems using COM2 with a serial mouse on COM1?

-- Will
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Will Bain,                                makes the bore more terrible.
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  Re: Help needed!
 
If you're having problems getting your HB to work on one serial port but it works on another, you might want to check for IRQ conflicts. By default, Com1 and Com3 both are assigned IRQ3, and Com2 & Com4 are both assigned IRQ4. So if you have a modem (...) (26 years ago, 31-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)

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  Re: Help needed!
 
I had a similar problem and had to try a different serial port. I have a serial mouse and the board will only work properly in com 1. If I try com 2, I get similar problems to yours keith (...) (26 years ago, 31-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)

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