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- From: kak1@birch02.cray.com (Kevin Kramer)
- Subject: AST computers and COM2
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.102932.1280@hemlock.cray.com>
- Originator: kak1@birch02
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- Sender: kak1@birch02 (Kevin Kramer)
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- Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
- Date: 26 Jan 93 10:29:32 CST
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- My Bro-in-Law just got a AST 486DX 33 mhz computer. It came with a internal
- fax/modem and two com ports in the back. The fax/modem was set to COM2 so the
- COM2 port on the motherboard was disabled via the CMOS. Well we don't want the
- fax/modem, we want to use the COM2 port on the back of the machine, so we
- removed the modem and then enabled COM2 in the CMOS setup, but nothing works
- in the COM2 port at all. We have tried a mouse and a mac-to-pc cable, but COM2
- is dead! (COM1 works fine for both) Is there any set-up that we don't know about?
- The tech guy at Computer City didn't know anything (I had to tell him how to
- run the CMOS set up!) I think that AST might just be crap because this is the
- second machine we have had COM port problems with (the 1st machine we got
- neither COM port would work) Any ideas?
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- Kevin
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- Kevin.Kramer@cray.com
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