Summary: I have a colleague trying to use a program to write/read data to/from the same serial port on the same machine. I've never attempted such a thing (I'v...
Summary: I asked this question a couple of months ago & didn't get any useful replies...so I'm asking again. Here's the original question: "I'm doing some work...
Summary: Hi Everyone, Something seems to be stopping me Contecting my weather station on the Com 1 Port.- and giving my this Com Port Error on the top of the p...
Summary: My Dim 8400 (March '05) has one IDE port on the motherboard, and it came with a DVD-R and a CD-RW drive. The installed HD is a 80GB ST380013AS but it ...
Summary: I finally got a speaker set and sound card for my old laptop. The only problem is that the speakers are powered by the PS/2 port, and when the laptop ...
Summary: I have a friend with a Dell Inspiron laptop. The USB port seems to be permanently broken. The DVD/CD-RW drive also seems to be malfunctioning. Is it p...
Summary: I just got my system up and running (Asus mobo: P4S800, Intel 3.0ghz chip, 512mb ram), but I can't get my usb ports to work. This includes the ones b...
Summary: I am having trouble installing software for a bluetooth usb adaptor. I install the software (XTND Blue Manager) but as it gets to the final stage it s...
Summary: There's a VGA Port in the back of my computer but I can't find it listed in the Device Manager. Should it be listed in the Device Manager and if so wh...
Summary: USB devices are kind of like all the appliances on your kitchen counters. If you use them all at once you will overload the circuit. This is why you...
Summary: When a motherboard specifies eight USB ports (four on back and four via header), does that mean you can have four in the front? How would you enable t...
Summary: Hi all, My friend who is not very computer literate has "inherited" an older pc from her daughter. It's an old Pentium 120 mhz running Win 95. She als...
Summary: Ok, first, I know it's stupid, but I purchased a barebones system on ebay through a liquidation company. I was just looking at the pictures, haven't r...
Summary: I don't know much about ports, so excuse my ignorance on the subject. All I know, is that they are used to communicate. I recently installed a home ne...
Summary: hey all, this is a big problem for me as im in school. A few days ago i was on my HP pavilion ze5155 notebook. It was on the charger, which was plugge...
Summary: Hi, building my first computer soon, but something just struck me, I was visiting the Antec site and they said to make sure that the case I/O openings...
Summary: I would like to boost the output power of the tx line on my serial port. If there are any electronics gurus on here, do you think a 74LS08 buffer chip...
Summary: from computer: Note:There is one physical 9-pin EIA232 serial port on your ThinkPad that you can use as a communications port. from camcorder: Easily...
Summary: I just bought an incredibly old case for a P1 mobo, so i stripped it for it's $2 worth of parts. It had this usb thing screwed in to where the pci ca...
Summary: hi all i got a unisys model CWD5001-ZA and for some odd reason it says there are two ide ports but theres only one on the main board nad it wont let m...
Summary: I'm doing some work on a friends PC & have run across a problem that I've never encountered before. Each time I reboot, the 56k PCI modem turns up on ...
Summary: I have a USB port and 9-1 memory card reader panel on the front of my machine. I use the card reader for my digital camera SD card and the USB port f...
Summary: Hi, Here's the basics of my problem: I was editing in MS Config and some slight BIOS options in order to speed up my boot time and general operations,...
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