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Hans-Juergen Bardenhagen · Guest

Hi,

sorry to bring back some old memories, but does anyone have information
about the serial port connector cables using a different pinout than
other mainboard manufacturers? I'm having problems trying to use the
5SIM with a modem, because nothing works, although I checked that the
IRQs and port addresses in the BIOS and under Win98SE are correct and
don't have any conflicts. The diagnosis tool in the device manager even
seems to send something to the modem when using COM1 (LEDs flicker like
everything was normal), but nothing seems to get back to the mainboard,
and the usual error message comes up after a few seconds. COM2 doesn't
work at all (no LEDs flickering).

Googling this and other news groups I found two old articles mentioning
the different cable pinouts, but without information how it would differ
from the normal one:

news:9tinr8$2tcng$3@ID-30504.news.dfncis.de (in this group)

http://groups.google.de/group/oecher.computer/browse_thread/thread/25891e3c41a54bb0/ee860f8422eb89d6?lnk=st&q=chaintech+mainboard+5sim&rnum=36&hl=de#ee860f8422eb89d6

The ladder is only available in German, sorry.

ZZee ya, Hans-Jürgen