At 20:14 01/16/03, William wrote:
>  Hard drive replacement: Award bios, Pentium II 333 mhz,
>  64 meg RAM, Iomega zip drive, HP CDrom writer. Monitor,
>  key board and mouse only connections (no serial or
>  parallel port connections). No operating system loaded.
>  Replaced the bad hard drive with a used Maxtor 6.8 gig
>  using the proper install disk and procedures copied
>  from the Maxtor web site. Appears to have installed
>  properly.
>
>  Problem: on boot up get an error message  -
>    CONFLICT I/O Ports: 2F8



Hi Bill

Even though you're not using them, your computer likely
has two "onboard serial ports".

Go into BIOS Setup (press the <Del> key when the system
first starts to boot) and make sure that both serial ports
are not set to use the same 2F8H (H for Hex) memory
address. The serial port settings are on the "Chipset
Features Setup" screen of my computer's Award BIOS Setup.

If both ports are not at 2F8, try changing (toggling) the
one that is at 2F8 to a different value (either 2E8, 3E8,
or 3F8). Save any change made before you exit Setup.

Reboot (use <Ctrl><Alt><Del>) after exiting BIOS Setup and
see if the error message has gone away.

Regards,
Bill

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