re com ports modem mouse conflict really in article apr wnbbs nbg sub org comp sys ibm pc hardware alt msdos programmer comp sys ibm pc misc uw pc general uw pc ibm misc forsale computers d comp dcom modems oli wnbbs nbg sub org oliver duesel writes hi there yuri windy berkeley edu yuri yulaev writes i have s p g i o card in my pc when i plug in wang modem at com it works if i change it to com it doesn t program chkport gives diagnostics like possible com irq conflict at com with mouse driver in memory since your io card only has one serial port this should default to com under ms dos you can t share irq s so you ll have to set either your modem or your mouse to com using different adresses and irq s when you set two devices onto the same irq like com and com or and the latter one will always win i e if you have your mouse on com and start using your modem on com your modem should work but your mouse will stop doing so until reboot it should be no problem setting your modem to com you didn t write anything about other peripherals i hope it helped a bit by t e oli hi 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 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 phil phil hunt wherever you go there you are howtek inc internet phil howtek mv com uucp decvax harvard mv howtek phil
