#NT , flaky system blues
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Ok, now I must de-flake my system….
NT boots and runs fine, but in my endless quest for the Tweak, I peeked at the
Event Log and low and behold, I see several errors. It says that a device
attempted to use COM3 and failed. Of course it failed, I don't have a com 3?
How can I find out what the offending device is ( Event log doesn't say) and
fix it, plus find out why it's even looking at "Com 3".
I'm system flake and WFWG 3.11 induced laziness has a lot to do with it.
In a DOS boot, I see that my Com driver ( TurboCom) assigns an IRQ to my
nonexistent com 3, (and it says it has a 16650 UART!), and it also says that I
have a com 4, but it can't tell what kind of UART it has,.
You're absolutely correct. Win NT is going to force me (and the rest of us with
flaky systems) to get out act together.
Except for the fact that I may actually have a Com 3 that I don't know about (
on the motherboard???) What do you think I could do to remedy this flakiness?
Thanks in advance
David Camp
>> What do you think I could do to remedy this flakiness… <<
You whole comments on the subject sound so humorous I don't know whether that's
a rhetorical question or not? <g>
>> I see that Com driver assigns an IRQ to my nonexistent com 3… <<
Well logically speaking, I wonder why it does that? It would seem that you
would assign the Com driver to which ever port your modem is on but then I must
be missing something, as if that were the case you wouldn't be asking the
question.
I don't know David, if you can give me a little more to go on maybe I can
help…. although by the time you get this I'll bet you've got it figured
out…
BTW are you aware of the MDS utility. If you got into DOS and type MSD it will
tell you what the system Bios thinks is going on. Not always perfect but it
will give you of what's active on Com 1 – 4.
John
>You whole comments on the subject sound so humorous I don't know whether
that's a rhetorical question or not? <g>
Yeah…I was a bit tired (after 20 hours of work)
Sorry , I get silly sometimes. I should know enough to not ask tech, questions
in an altered state ( at least thats what it felt like….)
Thanks for for the SLAP IN THE FACE…."Thanks, I needed that" as the
commercial said
DC <g>
Hey David,
<< It says that a device attempted to use COM3 and failed. Of course it failed,
I don't have a com 3? >>
FWIW, I have that same problem… Even if I go into the Ports Setup dialog box
and delete the COM3, it will never go away.
Mark
>FWIW, I have that same problem… Even if I go into the Ports Setup >dialog
box and delete the COM3, it will never go away.
Great, I thought it was because I didn't know what I was doing, thanks for the
ego- resuscitation <g>
BTW, An IRQ is assigned to my nonexistent com-3, I guess I can also assign
something else to that IRQ because it is assigned to a non entity.
Thanks
David