Are you sure the Com ports work at all? Have you used them for anything else?

Do you have a device whose IRQ conflicts with the com port? Look in Device Manager and make sure. For instance, I once had a modem on Com3 which uses the same IRQ as Com1, and I couldn't send a new kernel to the Empeg if I was using the modem.

Next, go into Device Manager and set the port in question to the following settings:



See if that fixes it.

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Tony Fabris