On 9 Jan 99, at 18:37, Harold E. Schumacher, Jr. wrote:

>   A buddy has just finished putting together his first system and
> upon boot-up, he said he got the message "Conflict I/O ports 2F8".
> Could someone please help me decipher this for him?

  He has two devices claiming to be located at the address normally
reserved for COM2:.

  The most likely scenario is that his motherboard provides two serial
ports as COM1: and COM2:, and he has installed an internal modem also
configured as COM2:.
  The simplest fix is to go into the CMOS setup and disable COM2:.
(This will only disable the port on the motherboard, so it will no
longer conflict with the modem.)


David G

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