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If the proposed answer does not solve your problem, please re-open the question so that other experts may propose a solution for you.<br />
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1) What type of mouse do you have? (serial or PS/2)<br />
2) What device was being installed that caused the IRQ conflict? (modem, soundcard, scanner, etc.)<br />
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Your feedback to the above is needed in order to provide a solution.<br />
Regards,<br />
Ralph<br />
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If the proposed answer does not solve your problem, please re-open the question so that other experts may propose a solution for you.

1) What type of mouse do you have? (serial or PS/2)
2) What device was being installed that caused the IRQ conflict? (modem, soundcard, scanner, etc.)

Your feedback to the above is needed in order to provide a solution.
Regards,
Ralph



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If You have an internal &nbsp;modem card on Com3 it will take the same interupt as com 1 &nbsp;stopping com 1 working<br />
the same applies to com4 and com2<br />

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If You have an internal  modem card on Com3 it will take the same interupt as com 1  stopping com 1 working
the same applies to com4 and com2


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If I have an IRQ conflict and device manager says it can't be changed,where do I go from there? and why would the conflict kill the mouse, causing me to have to keyboard in all commands with the directional arrows?
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If I have an IRQ conflict and device manager says it can't be changed,where do I go from there? and why would the conflict kill the mouse, causing me to have to keyboard in all commands with the directional arrows?

changing irqs?

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