I have a client who is using a 6-user version of AP/Pro on a PC. Whenever the
system is shutdown, it seems to forget the serial-card assignments. We reboot
the machine with Pick System Disk #1 and choose the C option to reset the
options to recognise the MONOLITH 8-port card, all works OK ... and then
someone switches it off again.

Can anyone tell me why it should keep forgetting the serial cards?

Regards

Malcolm Bull

On 14 Oct, in article
<20031014080534.22268.00000312 (AT) mb-m29 (DOT) aol.com>
mbtraining (AT) aol (DOT) com "MBTraining" wrote:

I can't give you an answer from direct knowledge of the situation. I've
seen Monoliths in use before (long time ago in a galaxy far, far away)
and don't recall ever encountering the problem.

First question - has it always been so?

Second question - is the machine maintaining its BIOS and clock settings
whilst the power is off?

Third question - is the Monolith card sharing an IRQ with a conventional
serial port? (If so, you might improve matters by disabling the serial
port sharing the IRQ, if possible. Under those circumstances, being an
older PC - reading between the lines - it may not be capable of
distinguishing the presence of the Monolith card from the conventional
port.)
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