can't find serial port

[Alex Snow]

yeah it might be disabled. you'll have to look around the bios.

no the onboard stuff won't cause problems in most cases. I have a few 
machines here with onboard sound and stuff and they work ok. you can 
always (?) disable onboard sound and video.
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 
08:20:41PM -0500, Kyrath. (AKA Rob) wrote:
> OK, it looks like the port might be disabled.  The copy command came back
> with 1 file copied, but there was no output.
> is it possible that the port is physically disabled?  Also, do the embedded
> video and sound cards pose a conflict problem, especially if I want to use
> my own cards?
> -- Rob
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> Subject: Re: can't find serial port
> 
> 
> > >From your Windows command prompt, can you:
> >
> > copy c:\autoexec.bat com1
> >
> > If you hear anything from your synth, you'll know your device is
> > working.
> >
> > It's possible that the port is bad, of course. It's also possible that
> > it's disabled in bios. That would probably mean getting someone sighted
> > to go through the bios with you.
> >
> > Kyrath writes:
> > > From: "Kyrath" <kyrath at cox.net>
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > > I've got an old Gateway P2 266 that currently has win98 on it.
> > > It, unfortunately, has embedded video and sound cards.  However, I'm not
> sure that would be the cause of my problems with finding the serial port.
> > > I've tried to redirect output via null modem cable and tried to get it
> to use the external double talk, but nothing happens.
> > > It will boot into windows, and it does access the floppy, just once,
> when I type "console=ttyS0" or "speakup_synth=ltlk", but no joy.
> > > I even tried having it look for serial port 2.
> > > Does anyone have any ideas of what's going on or what else I can try?
> > > -- Rob
> > > -- Rob
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