Summary: On a thinkpad 600E how do I turn on the com ports and printer port from BIOS. I can get in but cant find which ones are the port settings. It shows li...
Summary: I don't know how to enable COM port 1 on my computer, which I need to do so the computer can communicate with the hot-sync cradle for my new Palm Pilo...
Summary: I have a modem on com port 3, and nothing (that I can remember) on ports 1 & 2, yet 98 assigned IRQs to those ports. Can I safely disable them to free...
Summary: i got this OEM 56k modem sitting in my friends box, i had to format it, detected a "standard 56k V2 modem" driver and windows says this device is work...
Summary: Try booting in safe mode and checking device manager, it'll list some devices that don't show in regular windows. Try deleting your modem from there ...
Summary: Try entering the BIOS screens at bootup and check to see if both Com ports are enabled. Read the POST screens that display during the boot process, t...
Summary: On the modem issue, you can try deleting all com ports and modem in My Computer Device Manager, reboot, go into the BIOS, make sure that "Plug & Play ...
Summary: In my bios setup I see a serial port 1 & serial port 2. Both are enabled. Are these my COM ports ? If so, why doesn't it show COM 3,4 ? How do I enabl...
Summary: Installed Modem according to instructions on Com Port 3. Checked Control panel/System/Device Manager/Modem, everything ok. Settings fine, com port 3 s...
Summary: I am running windows 98 and I recently formatted my hard drive. After reinstalling windows 98 I lost control of the mouse. I reinstalled the mouse d...
Summary: I have a pci modem installed at com3. I'm curious why com3 is not listed under com ports in device manager. It works fine so i'm just wondering...???...
Summary: Anyone know how to tell what com ports are assigned to what device under 98? It used to be a simple process under 95 and 3.1, DOS, but appears to be a...
Summary: Sounds like you or someone has been changing the resources of the COM ports. Windows will change the number of the COM port based on the I/O address ...
Summary: I'm using Win98. My two com ports are installed correctly. One is COM1 and the other is COM5. Now, the mouse uses COM1. I have a digital camera tha...
Summary: I have an application, written in MS Visual C, which opens a com port and polls a device on the com port every second to see if there is any data. If...
Summary: One of my com ports went dead after the externel connector let loose and made contact with the chassis of the PC. The PC was not properly grounded and...
Summary: My question is regarding com ports and irqs. I have this legacy modem which i set the jumpers to pnp (following the manual) In my device manager I ha...
Summary: I had to rebuild my PC due to hardware problems using the same internal modem card I originally had. The modem uses com port 3, but when I do a diagn...
Summary: 700 amd athlon 128 mb, win98. system properties-performance tab. I get the following: Some devices are using MS-dos compability. virtual memory-MS-...
Summary: The modem is working ok but when I try to run the modem diagnostic in control panel it gives the message "cannot open com port". I'm using com2 for ...
Summary: Did you make sure that the COM port that you are trying to use isn't borrowing the I/O frequency that your wheel is on. If it is you can find deffere...
Summary: I've got a strange problem, namly: i have a machine (industries) which needs to get driven by 2 com ports (at the same time). COM 1 is not giving any...
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