I just bought my daughter a Visioneer PaperPort 6100 which hooks up to a
parallel port, but takes a serial address. Doesn't show up in device mangler
as a conflict, but on boot up you get a message -conflict i/o ports 02f8 or
whatever com 2 was using. Locked up the modem. In their readme files, they
say that it may take up a serial irq and cause modems or mice to freeze.
Since she had a ps/2 mouse, I moved the modem to com 1 and got it working,
but still haven't got scanner to work again. But I too have not seen one
with a serial plug.
ed


>
> Scanners usually connect either thru a Parallel port or thru a USB
> port.  They do not connect thru the COM port.
>
>  >Does he need to go into the BIOS and disable the internal modem in order
to
>  >free the resources for the COM port? How does he enter the BIOS setup
>  >routine and any other information would be much appreciated on getting
>  >a serial scanner working?
>
> I've never seen a serial scanner before...Who is the manufacturer?  I'm
> just curious here...
>
>

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