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| Thread ID: 25020 | 2002-09-24 07:45:00 | serial port and XP | Trev O (452) | Press F1 |
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| 82466 | 2002-09-24 07:45:00 | I have a casio personal organiser that plugs into the comp, but when I want to swap info from one to the other, it says that there is a 'error in the initialisation of the serial port' (where it plugs in). Does anyone know where to look for serial port settings, there doesn't seem to be any mention of it in the device manager, or maybe have any thoughts on where I go from here? I'm on home XP now, but I did have this all set up and running before on my old w98, with no problems |
Trev O (452) | ||
| 82467 | 2002-09-24 10:29:00 | com ports are serial ports.........ie in the old puters the serial mouse was on a com port you maybe check your device manager to see wether theres any com ports listed .....should be.... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 82468 | 2002-09-24 11:23:00 | The old casio program will be native DOS, and there is no DOS under Win XP. Its likely it will not run at all unfortunately. XP "DOS" is a windows emulation of DOS, and probably has problems with legacy com port drivers. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 82469 | 2002-09-24 21:12:00 | Hi guys, thanks for the input, Drcspy, in the ports part of the device manager is only 2 ports mentioned , com 3--modem and ltp 1 for the printer... any ideas on how find out what the serial port number is and then to add it?? Godfather, I'm not sure if this made any difference, but it did run on w98... and i don't think it's that old , perhaps 2 years (before XP though). I'll try any simplish options before I go to Casio. |
Trev0 (1995) | ||
| 82470 | 2002-09-24 21:57:00 | Yes it would have run in Windows 98, that was built on a real DOS version . WIN XP is the first Win OS to have NO underlying DOS . It may run, just don't expect too much, and if it does it may be unstable in my experience . Re your ports, the COM3 modem port is a "virtual" port on the PCI Bus, not one of the standard COM1 and COM2 . If you have a physical COM port on the PC, it will be COM1 |
godfather (25) | ||
| 82471 | 2002-09-24 23:08:00 | OK I just tried it on com 1 again and still no-go (i tried the first 5!), but I have just found something hiding in a corner at a casio affiliate site, that I'm downloading now, so I have my fingers crossed and am holding my breath.... | Trev O (452) | ||
| 82472 | 2002-09-24 23:32:00 | Ok that didn't work either, so now I've written to Casio and all will be fixed directly...(so I'd like to think!) Thanks for the help guys |
Trev0 (1995) | ||
| 82473 | 2002-09-25 01:55:00 | If the only COM port showing up is COM3, you might need to enable COM2 in the BIOS settings (not COM1, which shares IRQ4 with COM3). That only makes the port usable; it won't fix the basic (no DOS) problem with XP. :D But if Casio come through with xp software you will need the port enabled. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 82474 | 2002-09-25 03:56:00 | OK I'm interested, Graham, I've just had a look in the bios and didn't see anything about ports and since I haven't heard back as directly from casio as I'd hoped... how do I enable com port 2 in the bios? I should have said before but the rest of the program works, just not the connection between them |
Trev0 (1995) | ||
| 82475 | 2002-09-25 04:11:00 | Is there no option under advanced to enable COM (or serial RS232) ports? Seems funny they are fitted but not active, unless they are disabled. You would need to tell what BIOS you are using. Have you looked in the motherboard manual for info, or on the makers website? I think you are an optimist in the extreme to expect Casio to respond!! I hope they do, but legacy software that is no longer produced is unlikely to be re-written, I would guess. As a point of interest, what model Casio and what is the software name/version, someone may know something? |
godfather (25) | ||
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