Is it possible that the lithium cell on the mother board
has gone down, (so losing all your set-up info)
and that when you reboot, your CPU
does so with its default configuration?

"Joe McElvenney" wrote in message
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I'm keying my rig on RTTY via COM-1 of the computer but on
start-up none of the standard software packages can find a COM
port to use. If I go into 'Device Manager' though, delete a port
and then re-install it, everything works fine until next time.
This I guess means that the ports are not being initialised.
Has anyone come across this and is there a simple fix? I have
already asked this question in the appropriate OS group (Windows
XP Home) but to no avail.