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Well - I also do a ritual chant and pass a bundle of smelly herbs over the box
when I'm doing an installation. Can't hurt <g>.
Frankly - all this stuff drives me nuts. I'm not dumb - but my husband and I run
4 computer systems (he has his, I have mine, we have an Internet system and I
have a notebook) - and I don't want to spend the rest of my natural life doing
hardware installations (my husband couldn't set up a computer system if his life
depended on it). And getting everything to work ok is so much harder now with
Windows 95 (I used to think DOS was hard - little did I know what awaited me 10
years down the road). Note that I am not a hardware sissy. I used to dismantle
hard-wired telephone systems in hotels with little screw-drivers to get on line
when modem connections were an exotic item.
I'll give you a "for example". I like to use an external modem - so I can see
the lights and hear the sounds and know the status of my connection (by ear).
Also - my new computer has a WinModem - which isn't supposed to work with DOS
programs. So I set up an external modem. And both the WinModem and the external
modem work with DOS programs when I run them through the DOS prompt in Windows -
but neither works when I leave Windows and work in native DOS. I've spoken to
the box manufacturer technical support and the modem manufacturer technical
support - and no one has a clue why this is happening. And you wonder why I'm
superstitious. Perhaps I didn't use enough garlic <g>. Robyn
Ron Augustine wrote:
> Robyn,
>
> It would be really nice if life were that simple! ;-)
>
> Win-95 Plug & Pray assigns your IRQs to your COM ports and other devices at
> will and leaves your sensitivities and superstitions out of the process. It
> will also re-assign them as new devices are added and removed. You can
> venture in and manually change the mandated assignments if you know what
> you're doing, but you risk creating further conflicts and may disable PnP
> from working its wizardry on the next addition to your machine.
>
> Some add-on devices are designed to use only specific IRQs and
> base-addresses that may or may not be available at any given point in the
> evolution of your machine. These anomalies can sometimes cause conflicts
> but this is changing as peripheral manufacturers and later versions of Plug
> & Pray get more in lock-step with the Gates' juggernaut...
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