Couldn't you disable the USB port(s)?? hardware and installed it anyway. Chris On Mon, 10 May 1999 07:58:48 -0500, Gary Durack wrote: > > > > >I have not followed this discussion in detail, but if you are choosing your >own computer to upgrade the XL you must be able to manually define I/O >address, IRQ and DMA interrupts for the ISA bus. I tried to use a newer >DELL and there was no way to lock out the IRQ which the XL data acquisition >PCB requires. This Dell always asigned the needed IRQ to a universal serial >port and it could not be maI had trouble with an IR port a while back that simply wouldn't go away. Really really irritating. Every reboot windows "found" the new de to work as the acquisition computer on the >XL. As vendors try to make their systems more plug and play they become >more difficult to manually configure. Be sure the system BIOS allows you >to block out these hardware settings for the ISA bus. > >gary > >Gary Durack >University of Illinois Biotechnology Center >voice (217) 244-0559 fax (217) 244-0466 >durack@uiuc.edu >http://www.life.uiuc.edu/biotech >
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