On Thu, 20 Jan 2000 01:04:11 EST No Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In a message dated 00-01-20 00:04:51 EST, you write:
> << This information would be quite helpful for us
> in order to provide you with the best suggestions on how to get into the BIOS
> setup.
> Good luck!
> Sam Heywood >>
> The Bios is 1996, and autodetects everything, displaying it
> in the setup screen. Setup is accessed by the <del> key
> after memory counts up. Com 1/ irq 4, Com 2/ irq 3 pretty
> standard stuff, but when win95 opens, a window pops up
> saying "Windows did not detect a mouse....". tried three
> different mice. Also, like Pippi's, mine does not recognize
> a modem.
Maybe you need special drivers for your mice, or maybe the drivers
need to be loaded in a certain manner. Usually Windows will install
your mouse driver automagically upon installing Windows. Maybe your
mice are of a PS/2 type instead of a normal type, or vice-versa. If you
have a WinModem (aka, "plug and play") you will have to install special
drivers in order for Windows to recognize it. When running DOS in real
mode, DOS will not recognize your modem because your modem is "designed
especially for Windows 95" instead of for an operating system.
>This board is an Intel Triton with pin-plug-ins
> on the board, not on separate I/O Cards, for HDD, FDD,
> Serial 1 & 2 and Parallel. I've sent an Email to Intel, and am
> awaiting a response as to whether the on-board connections
> can be jumpered out, and an I/Ocard with cables added.
I had suggested that the on-board comports might have been disabled in
the BIOS setup. On start up you might see numbers and IRQ's identifying
the com ports and the interrupts, but do you know if the on-board comports
are enabled or disabled? The start up screen display might be just providing
information telling you that these integral hardware components exist and
that they are jumpered in such a way so as to be configured in a certain
manner. Maybe the start up screen isn't telling you what you really want
to know: Are the comports enabled? I once had a motherboard with an AWARD
bios that would cause the start-up display to indicate the existence of the
comports regardless of whether the comports were enabled or disabled. I
could enable/disable the comports in the bios setup, but the start-up display
would show the same info regardless! In the case of your motherboard, you
know that Intel manufactured many of the chips. Who manufactured the bios?
How do you change the bios settings? That's what you need to know. The
start-up display should identify the bios manufacturer and it should also
display some numbers indicating a series and version number. If the folks
at Intel don't know what kind of bios you have, they might not be able to
help you.
Sam Heywood
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