From: earlcolby.pottinger@sympatico.ca   
      
   Edmund  :   
      
   > In message , Earl Colby   
   > Pottinger   
   > wrote:   
   > > That is a bad assumation on your part.  On most systems disabling   
   hardware   
   > > using the BIOS setting kills the power to that hardware at the time the   
   > > computer is turned on, not when BeOS or other OSes boot.  Look again you   
   > are   
   > > disabling calls to the BIOS not the BIOS itself.  If I am right booting   
   > > directly into the BIOS and turning off the serial port, saving the   
   setting   
   > > should make the port invisible to BeOS.   
   > >   
   > > Give it a try, what do you have to lose?   
   >   
   > Thanks for helping, I am sure you are right but this is   
   > a very weird computer.   
   > I tried as you suggested but there still is a com2 in BeOS.   
   > Now I booted windows ( millennium ) and there too the com2   
   > appears.   
   >   
   > Anyway while I am typing this, tested the modem on windows   
   > and it worked on com3 IRQ4.   
   > So used the same setting under BeOS with the PS2 mouse,   
   > guess what? IT WORKS !!!!!!!!!!   
   > It even have sound with an old soundblaster driver.   
   > So all I have to do is install MailIt and some other progs   
   > and most important : removing the windows option from   
   > the bootmenu :-)   
      
   About my above statements I am usually right.  But in this case it just   
   sounds wierd.  Could you tell me what model of computer you are using?  I   
   have never heard of Windows not following the BIOS settings also.  It sounds   
   like instead of disabling hardware it just changes it's addressing.  Lazy   
   designer?   
      
                 Earl Colby Pottinger   
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