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Thread ID: 79349	2007-05-17 02:15:00	Motherboards Don't have serial ports now!	muzza (7316)	Press F1

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550501	2007-05-17 11:48:00	The main use I would put this to is to connect my GPS to save waypoints and edit same. I should try an adaptor before I disgard the old machine, so if that doesn't work then a PCI I/O card may have to fitted to the new machine Thanks for the suggestions	muzza (7316)
550502	2007-05-17 13:05:00	Every new motherboard I've had in lately has had a header for a COM port, and many of them have come with the COM port as an expension slot add-in that plugs into this header. Your board probably has a serial port on it, just not on the back IO plate. You should be able to find an appropriate cable on trademe for almost nothing, or somewhere tucked away (in an old PC maybe) if you have stuff like that lying around.	george12 (7)
550503	2007-05-17 20:38:00	Perhaps you were lucky with that one. And every one I have bought for others here lately too. M2N32-SLI [Back Panel I/O Ports] 1 x COM port M2N-MX [Back Panel I/O Ports] 1 x COM port P5B Deluxe [Back Panel I/O Ports] 1 x COM port P5L [Internal I/O Connectors] 1 x COM connector and so on...........	pctek (84)
550504	2007-05-18 07:51:00	Muzza: The GPS unit will just use plain serial communications. Just about any of the USB to serial adapters should be fine. (Even a DSE one ... and they have a good record of taking back gear which doesn't work. ). Of course, if you can get a motherboard which has the port ... ;) pctek: Didn't you notice that I was referring to USB to serial adapters, not motherboards? TGoddard: Jaycars have some of the AVR microcontrollers; I use mostly the Microchip PIC range, and the clever PicAxe adaptations of the PICs. Sometimes I prototype on the PicAxe, then code in assembler or C or Pascal for the "pure" PIC chips	Graham L (2)
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