re com ports modem mouse conflict really phil hunt phil howtek mv com wrote i m kind of new at the pc stuff my machine has serial ports com and and share same irqs you mean i can t plug a mouse into com and a modem into com and expect both to work no but some os s coherent etc are able to drive one of the ports in polled mode without using the irq in your example after accessing the modem the mouse won t work until you reboot because the irq is used by the modem if answer is no should i change irq s for com ports to be different and does it really matter which irq i set the ports too yes you can change the irq s for com but it depends on your other hardware com uses irq com irq if you have only one printerport irq you can change com to irq normally nd printer for com you can assign irq if its free as far as i know no other irq can be used until your i o card is bit and caould access irq s michael michael jester gun de michael gerhards preussenstrasse germany neuss voice
