If your CMOS battery voltage is low, it can scramble the settings.
But you would have had more problems than just the COMM ports turned
off.  I think the most logical conclusion is that someone actually
went into the settings and turned off both comm ports.

Jim Meagher
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Holli Van Nest

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> Hi folks,
>
> Thanks for all the suggestions.  The serial ports were disabled in
> the CMOS.