Re: Com Ports

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From: Brian Gaff (Briang1_at_blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: 12/12/04 

Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 20:20:15 GMT

Hmm, I am beginning to think that xp has problems with serial ports. Shortly
after installation, it lost all track of my one motherboard based com port.
its obviously some nasty plot!

Brian 

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"er65nsunny" <er65nsunny@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
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>I have a computer running Windows XP and recently upgraded to SP2.  I had a
> US Robtics modem attached to the computer for about 2 years using com port 
> 3
> the modem had the latest drivers and worked fine.
> After I did the SP2 upgrade every time I woud shut the computer down I 
> would
> get an error message regarding the modem. Eventually my ISP would not 
> detect
> the modem either, upon checking device manager the modem was not showing 
> up.
> So I tried to manually install the modem which did not work, So I thought
> that since the modem was not on Microsofts HCL, that had something do do 
> with
> it.  So I purchased a Creative modem blaster which is on Microsofts HCL. 
> But
> when I tried to install it I had some problems. Windows would not detect 
> it
> and I had to install it manually but it still does not show up in device
> manager,  but my ISP detects the modem.  So I  checked some other things 
> in
> the computer.  I checked system information, under components and modems 
> it
> shows the US Robotics on com ports 3 and 4 and the Creative modem on com 
> port
> 5.  This is the only place that shows that com ports 3 and 4 are being 
> used.
> On Microsofts web site their is an article that explains a work around but 
> I
> don't know which program is holding the ports open.  I was wondering if
> anyone might know of a solution on how to get the com ports back.  I even
> tried the command to show nonpresent devices in device manager but that 
> did
> not show any modems connected to the computer.

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