If someone could please elaborate, this seems to be a conflict between a plug and
play BIOS and a plug and play operating system.  I am told that if you go into BIOS
and change the prompt "Plug and play OS?" to "yes" you can gain access to IRQ
settings, or is it "no"?  I can't test this as I don't have multiple ports under Win95.
Under BIOS, don't you want to set IRQ 5 as legacy so the PCI bus doesn't hog it?
Just a guess.  My PNP is set to auto and device manager is the same as yours.
tom turak
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On Monday, May 11, 1998 1:12 PM you wrote:

 It appears that we are encountering a similar problem on a workstation
running Win95 4.00.950B on a combination Win95 Network / Novell Netware ver.
3.14 Network.  ...............
     What's the worse, we cannot seem to correct the consequences.  We have
tried to use Device Manager / System / Ports to reassign COMM4 to IRQ5, but
Win95 will not allow this.  Our system reports that we have Basic
Configurations 001 through 003 but will not allow a reassignment to IRQ5 in
any of these configurations.  We have "removed" COMM4 hoping to reinstall it
with a correct IRQ assignment, but on reboot, it, like Caesar's ghost, has
returned to its original haunts.
     We have searched the BIOS Setup to determine if it sets the assignments
of the COMM ports to the IRQs and it doesn't appear the case.  Settings/The
workstation runs AMIBIOS 1996 and contains two onboard physical serial ports.
In BIOS setup, port #1 is assigned I/O 3F8h;  #2 is assigned I/O 2E8h.  #2 is
further designated as "normal" mode.
Tommy Holmes, Jr.
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