Dick,

Assuming the com ports are physically installed and the device manager is
not seeing them, I would check to see if the com ports have been disabled in
the BIOS. If so, re-enable, re start, and see if they are now visible in the
device manager....

At least a start,

Dean Kiley



> -----Original Message-----
> From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
> Subject: [PCBUILD] Com 1
>
> I just got a used computer where the hard disk had been low level
> formatted.  I installed Win2K, but when I went to install a modem, there
> was no Com1 or Com2 ports.  How do I re-install the com ports?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Dick

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