Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: James Shaughnessy Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.beginners Subject: Serial lead & COM ports Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 01:24:04 +0000 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 34 Message-ID: <3658B934.5D2C@manc.u-net.com> Reply-To: james@manc.u-net.com NNTP-Posting-Host: manc.u-net.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) Hello. For the past 11 months of having this Black Beauty called the Yaroze, I quite possibly have been doing something incredibly stupid. "Trying to code" hahaha yes indeed. You see my PC has only 2 COM ports on the motherboard. COM1 is used for the mouse, and COM2 for the Modem. Now, as you know the Yaroze-PC serial lead wants a COM port so it's a game of "musical chairs" every time I want to do something. So I just have to swap the modem/yaroze cable every time I want to use the repective device. Do most of you do this, or do a lot of people have 4 COM ports? Or do you all splash out on a serial card? Call me tight but I'm not paying PC-WORLD £35 for one. That cash can go towards more important things (like Turok 2, Zelda etc..) My solution (like an idiot) to my prob was to buy an INTERNAL modem, thus freeing up COM2. How naive. Of course having bought one it tells me I have to DISABLE COM2 for it to work. DOH!!!! Straight back it went, along with my dreams of a handy internal 56k modem and the idea of using my Yaroze, modem and mouse all at the same time. It's not so much me being lazy, but swapping the leads twice a day puts unnecessary strain on the Yaroze cable's internal wires. Will buying a serial card fix my problem, or just introduce IRQ conflicts and waste memory with sorry-arse resident TSR drivers? Will Penelope Pitstop escape? Cheers, Jim -- ----------------------------------------- James Shaughnessy james@manc.u-net.com http://www.netyaroze-europe.com/~shaughnj -----------------------------------------