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   Message 258 of 815   
   John Kelly to Mark Lewis   
   UMM.. PCBOARD NATURAL   
   28 Jan 14 04:19:00   
   
   -> JK> I installed Warp 4, fixpak 9, and sio2k.  I use a 2 port serial   
   -> JK> PCI card on IRQ 3. I can start a file transfer but it stalls and   
   -> JK> dies. So much for sio2k.   
      
   -> use the previous version instead of sio2k   
      
   With 1.60d, I got the same failure. So much for SIO working with my 2   
   port PCI card. Or so I thought ...   
      
   Some time later, I tested the onboard COM1 port with PCBoard on DOS.   
   Outbound transfers worked, but inbound failed. Puzzled, I looked at the   
   BIOS and noticed that power was set on APM. I had it that way for OS/2,   
   since Warp 4 does not understand ACPI.   
      
   I set it back to ACPI, and DOS inbound transfers started working fine.   
   So the motherboard is buggy when set for APM; the IRQ handling is messed   
   up.   
      
   Knowing that, I left it on ACPI and installed WARP 4 again. Now it all   
   works. SIO 1.60d and my 2 port serial PCI card on IRQ 3. Amazing what a   
   little BIOS setting can do.   
      
   -> JK> Ray says Warp server ebiz fails when using serial ports and IRQ   
   -> JK> 3.  I also read that the server and client code base was merged   
   -> JK> as of fixpak 13.   
      
   Right now I'm at fixpak 10. Maybe I will go up to 12 and see if it still   
   works there.   
      
   --- PCBoard (R) v15.4/M 250 Beta   
    * Origin: Torres Vedras - Portugal (2:362/6)   

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