Good Folk, I've been running my new socket-7 PC for about 6 weeks now. The serial mouse and modem seem to work OK, but the comm ports are not configured properly. System: Tyan S1571 TX motherboard V1.03/Award bios v4.51 PG (PnP) Pentium P5 166 mmx cpu Alleged Fujitsu 64mb SDRAM (1 module) West. Dig. Caviar 3.2gb UIDE HD PnP: Zoom V34I+ 33.6 (56k upgradable) modem non-PnP: Old Logitech Mouseman Serial Rodent non-PnP: ISA IDE card for old Creative 2x CD-Rom NT WS 4.0 SP3 (w/o hotfixes), a "non-PnP" OS from (Beloved) Microsoft, with PNPISA.SYS disabled. When my NT boots, I look in the Event Log and find: Event 3: User configuration data for parameter COM2 overriding firmware configuration data. Event 22: A conflict has been detected between two drivers which claimed two overlapping Io port regions. Driver Serial, with device <\Device\Serial10000.Translated>, claimed an IO port range with starting address in data address 0x28 and 0x2c, and length in data address 0x30. Event 22: A conflict has been detected between two drivers which claimed two overlapping Io port regions. Driver Sermouse, with device <\Device\PointerPort0.Translated>, claimed an IO port range with starting address in data address 0x28 and 0x2c, and length in data address 0x30. Event 11: The hardware resources for COM1 are already in use by another device. If I could get my comm ports configured the way NT "needs" them, I would be happy as a clam ... Presently: hardware : (mobo) comm1 is connected (mobo) comm2 cable is disconnected modem is jumpered non-PnP, 2f8, irq3 bios : onboard uart 1: 3f8/irq4 onboard uart 2: disabled PnP OS installed : no resources controlled by : manual reset configuration data : disabled irq's 3-15, dma0-7 assigned to "legacy isa" NT : comm1: 3f8, irq4, fifo enabled, 9600 bps, 8/n/1, no flow comm2: 2f8, irq3, fifo enabled, 57600 bps, 7/e/2, XonXoff I've tried more config's than I can remember. Obviously I'm doing one or more things wrong. Any help/suggestions etc would be appreciated. Zalut, David ********************************************************************** ** David Nasser ** [log in to unmask] ** ** Univ. Mo. St. Louis (sometimes) ** ** **********************************************************************; "Got me 'cused of murder, I never harmed a man. Got me 'cused of forgery, I can't even write my name. Got me 'cused of taxes, I don't have a lousy dime. Got me 'cused of children, ain't nary a one of them mine. from "Third Degree", Willie Dixon, around 1952 Need help with PCBUILD: [log in to unmask] or http://nospin.com