Lucky wrote:

I fixed it. This is what I had to do.
In my mobo bios, serial port 1 is really com 3 and serial port 2 is really
com 1. So, I disabled serial port 2 so com 1 would be disabled. This left
com 3 in device manager. This was the only port that seemed work OK with
other radio software.

I then changed com port 3's setting to com port 1 in XP's device manager. It
warned me against it since it said com 1 was in use even though it was
disabled in the bios. I did it anyway.

The original Lowe software now works well like it should. It only looks for
com 1 and now the name of the port matched it with it. Strange.


Can't you assign the serial ports in your motherboard's settings?
Then you don't have to force the OS to redirect everything.

Here are the ports and IRQs

Name Address IRQ
COM 1 3F8 4
COM 2 2F8 3
COM 3 3E8 4
COM 4 2E8 3



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Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida