"Volker Tonn" wrote in message
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Lucky schrieb:

Volker,

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.

Thanks again Volker!
Lucky

Hi Lucky,
glad to see you went lucky :-)

So I already was on the right trail to change some settings in the device
manager....
I liked the days when a user had total control over every setting in his
computer.
I went into IBM compatible PCs in 1992... Thousands of jumpers, no
DIP-switches... :-)
I had ISA-cards with 4 COM-ports and 3 LPT-ports on my machines back then.
My very first IBM-compatible was a 386 DX20 with 4MB RAM and 40MB(!) HDD.
Upgraded just a week later with a additional 120MB HDD and added another
4Megs of RAM and the optional coprocessor. Had the legendary TSENG ET4000
1MB graphics card installed and the NEC 3D monitor....
I knew all MS-DOS 5.0 to 6.22 commands back and forth and liked Windows
3.11 very much....
I still have a vintage 1993 Kontron industrial 19" rackmount backplane 386
16Mhz computer with integrated 9" green colour display and DOS 6.22 and
WIN 3.11 up and running to control my NRD-525 :-)

Volker


Yes you were on the right track for sure.
In fact, if these com ports were labled plainly instead of in cryptic
window's physical addresses, I would have got it working sooner. The Lowe
software works but is buggy and poorly written. It is version 1.0 and has
never been upgraded to the best of my knowledge.

Vokler my first computer was a Sinclair ZX81 that I built from scratch. You
needed to enter like 20 pages of code to get it to do something! Then I got
a Commodore 64 and all the goodies for it. I also used it for a very small
state to state internet connection called Q-Link.

I was spending like $88 a month for it. You were charged by the hour. They
got bought out by a company called "America online" when the stock wasn't
even listed yet.

Lucky