"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
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Lucky wrote:

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
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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



--
Former professional electron wrangler.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

Thanks
They could have made it plain to any person looking at it though.

Lucky

Older motherboards did. :-(

--
Former professional electron wrangler.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

Well it sure made life easier. I think the whole idea now is to confuse the
end user and make it hard for him/her to solve the problem yourself. This
way you have to have pay for tech support to get it "fixed" and it makes a
simple computer "hard"

Lucky