Built a new tower ,But..............

[Orlando4all.com]

Hi Gang.

I have just rebuilt my old system in a tower unit after ugrading this one.
Below are my specs. and this is my problem.

Pentium tr5 mobo ms-5129. 4x pci slots . 3x ISA slots
32 meg ram.
Evergreen cpu clocks at 233
SVirge graphics card.
2x 1.2 gig HD
1 cd rom drive 32 speed
1x floppy drive.

The problems encountered:

I have installed win 98 v2.0 ( clean install) loaded fine , no hitches. Except.
When it boots up it states that there is no mouse attached to system and that i may attach the serial mouse and continue. it had been attched all the time. but the mouse has frozen, it does however show activity when a program has been selected , such as the our glass and such.

I have checked the irqs and they seem to be fine, however on checking the the system and drivers and settings, when i look at any driver in the device manager it just shows a grey tile with the device name, nothing else. no drivers for the floppy, cd rom, but this is loading software fine, no drivers for HDD such as the dual fifo.
To add salt to an open wound, it states one conflict of the advanced power management support??????

It now states that com port 3????? i didnt think i had a com port 3.
I do have a printer port serial 1 and serial 2.

any clues as to what i can do to make this heap run again?

thank a million chaps....

All this worked swell with win 95c and 95 b

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[Paleo Pete]

First, try to make your info a bit more clear. What does the reference to COM3 mean? It states what about COM3? The computer has 4 COM ports, normally only 1 and 2 are used. The mouse is usually on COM1, IRQ4. Modems usually take COM2, IRQ3. COM3 is normally not there, and modems also sometimes take COM4, also IRQ3. More COM ports can sometimes be there, some software modems install virtual COM ports, I've seen COM5 referred to.

Check Device Manager again, and see what COM ports are shown. Check BIOS to be sure COM1, serial port 3F8 is enabled. COM2 should be serial port 2F8, and usually disabled for a hardware modem, for software based modems it depends...If you show COM1 and COM3 in Device Manager, remove COM3. They both use the same IRQ and that could be the reason for the mouse locking up, otherwise it usually is an IRQ conflict somewhere else.

Floppy and CD ROM drives in Win995/98 normally don't use drivers, they're handled by the system abd controllers. The hard drives usually show controllers, but not necessarily dual fifo. Could be generic disk controller or such...seems with that system it should be dual fifo though. If the hard drive(s) work properly, the correct controllers should be there, don't worry about it.

I have Power Management disabled in BIOS and let Windows handle it, I have the same yellow ! shown in Device Manager, and Power Management works fine, I've never worried about it. (If it ain't broke, don't fix it!) Enabling it in BIOS might get rid of the yellow splatt, haven't tried it yet...guess I need too...

COM ports are serial ports, printer ports are parallel ports.

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