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Windows95 Setup question

I've just upgraded to Win95. I have a high speed serial port, with 16650 UART. The mouse is connected to COM1 and the modem to COM2. I've noticed a LOT of overruns. By chance I discovered they occur whenever I move the mouse.
What can I do?

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Ikon

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stormy030297

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I'm still getting overruns. The mouse works, but it disappeared from device manager's menu.
Why should I not use Trumpet?

Ikon

Trumpet is a 16bit stack, (unless you have a win95 version).
From what you have told me I would hazard a guess that you installed Win95 into the same dir as win3.x as an upgrade?
If this is so then go to a DOS prompt, go to you r windows directory, rename your win.ini to win.bad (or something), rename your system.ini to system.bad and COPY system.cb to system.ini (do NOT rename system.cb).
Shut down & restart your machine. Your mouse should not work at all.
Use CTRL+ESC to get your start button, go to control panel & run the add new hardware wizard.

stormy030297

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I did it. EVERYTHING crashed. I had to restore it. It took a while. I still get the overruns.

Ikon

Everything????
Then you must be running a loadda 16 bit stuff.
When did everything crash? When you ran it? If so a simple re-install of required programs would have refreshed their system/win ini settings.
Why are you using Trumpet? It is a great Win 3.x stack but not for Win95, which has built in TCP/IP support.

stormy030297

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Anyway, I'm back on Win 3.11, with no problems. Just hold on, I'm going to post another question and you'll understand why.