Subj : HELP, Fossil drivers does
To   : the_maker
From : Lord Time
Date : Mon Oct 04 2004 07:57 pm

  To: the_maker
In a reply from the_maker  on 10:55 about HELP, Fossil drivers does

t> Hi to everybody, I'm a newbie sysop, I'm trying to start up a small bbs.
t> I'm sorry for my bad english.

t> Well, I have a pc celeron/366 64Mb, it is plugged inside a slot A
t> motherboard. I put an external modem 33.6 over com1 and one ISDN adapter
t> in slot isa over com3. 
t> All hardware is used, you know what I mean, it's all cheap and old
t> hardware because it's only an hobby and i try to save up money ;). My
t> software for the bbs is lora bbs, it's an italian software. 

t> Well lora doesn't run because it seems that the pc hasn't fossil drivers
t> installed. Damn!! All modem, and isdn adapter run very well in
t> windows98. For example hyperterminal runs very well and there is no
t> troubles or software warfare over IRQ values. My operating system is the
t> old windows98, and Hyperterminal works very good with 33.6modem.

t> Lora bbs, also all bbs sotfware need fossil drivers to work. I updated
t> the fossil drivers but they don't run, they freeze my pc. Old realese of
t> fossil drivers doesn't run but they don't freeze windows. Fossil drivers
t> doesn't work, and I don't know why. Fossil detects only the external
t> modem over com1 (none over com3 with isdn adapter damn! why  not?), at
t> least fossil print an error message and it stops. It says error over a
t> serial port and also lora bbs says fossil drivers aren't installed.
t> My bbs server doesn't run.

t> Actually an italian sysop is trying to help me, he says it may be a
t> software warfare in IRQ. IRQ:14 doesn't answer over fossil driver so
t> msdos doesn't run. My pc doesn't boot under msdos type, it freezes and a
t> black screen show only a prompt flashing. Nobody runs over msdos boot. I
t> format the hard disk 4 twice, I installed  windows but it's the same
t> problem, the pc doesn't reboot over msdos. May be a sotfware warfare
t> with my chipset or a virus? Wrong!, Nortorn antivirus doesn't detect any
t> virus on my hard disk (I'm sure, I updated it last week, Dr norton
t> antivirus says to me, no virus detected!!).

t> Well, I check out the problem; what's wrong in IRQ:14? In IRQ:14 there
t> is installed the hard disk controller also the viatech motherboard
t> chipset controller. I try to change manually the irq in IRQ:14, (the
t> hard disk controller ot the motherboard controller) but at least windows
t> doesn't change them. May be the chipset controller doesn't release che
t> IRQ14 and msdos doesn't access over the system resource.


t> Is there anybody here? 

t> Is there anybody can help me?


t> I'd like to run my bbs over isdn and modem, but i'dont know how to
t> resolve the problem.

ok, you get sbbs 2.30 & sbbs 3.11b and run them together on the same computer

sbbs 2.30 is dail-up
sbbs 3.11b is web only

Rob Starr
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