Hobart Floyt wrote:
>
> I'm having trouble with the com ports. It has them on
> the motherboard so I hooked up a port to one of them
Correct me if I'm wrong. Your motherboard has some
pins ::::: and you push a plug (on a narrow ribbon
cable with the port at the other end) onto the pins?
First, are you sure the plug is round the right way?
Are you sure it is the correct cable? Unfortunately
different computers use different pinouts on their
port cable plugs. Just because the plug lines up with
the pins, doesn't mean it's the correct cable.
> but each time I go to install the mouse it says it
> can't find it.
Are you using a mouse driver? Are you sure the
driver works for the type of mouse you are using?
> I've changed the addressing on the ports in the bios
What addresses are you using?
> I've also hooked up the port to the other connector
> on the motherboard with the same results.
If the cable is wrong for your computer's com1, it will
also be wrong for com2.
> The only port I had was a 25 pin serial
In my parts box, I have three plug-in serial ports.
All have 25-pins. All have 5x2 holes in the plug.
All are mutually incompatible.
> so I've got an adapter on it to plug in the mouse,
> could that be making a difference?
Only if the adapter is faulty. Unlikely.
> Could their be a conflict with something else in the
> computer? I have two hard drives in it, one is an
> IDE and the other is an old Seagate RLL SCSI
> 80 meg hard drive, it has it's own interface card.
Are you sure HDD interface card has no comports?
> I also have a network card installed
It is possible that the network card has been put on
an IRQ usually taken by a comport. Is there a jumper
on the network card showing its IRQ?
> and was considering adding a modem but I havent'
> done that yet, waiting to see if I can get a mouse
> working first.
If it's external, we'll definitely have to sort the
port problems first. If it's internal, we'll need
to know which ports/IRQs are free.
It would help if you could run the PortInfo utility
in the CTS SPU package, available for download from:
http://www.comminfo.com
Cheers,
Steven
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