is the COM port turned on in the BIOS?  Do you have a modem installed
somewhere?  Could be conflicts or just turned off..

Dave Jones
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Scholtz" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 9:42 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Serial Ports Failed ?


I have a Dell 4100 933 MHz machine with a palm III hooked to the serial
port.  It ceased to hot sync and subsequent troubleshooting indicated the
serial port had failed (palm and cradle/cable are good; they work fine on a
second machine).  The System device manager said all was fine and there were
no error messages.  I bought a PCI serial card installed it; which went
fine.  System device manager is fine, but like the original port it will
transmit no data.  In both cases the ports were configured as COM 1 using
interrupt 4.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Bob

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