Steve, go into the Bios and see if your Com ports are enabled.
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"Steve Welter" <flyboysmb@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> After a "New" XP install, none of my COM ports are
> recognized. One COM port is resident on the
> motherboard. When I look at "Ports" in the device
> manager, it only indicates LPT1 & No com ports.
> Obviously when I did the "New" install, all the drivers
> were wiped out, but the install did not see the COM port
> (but it did see the printer port).
>
> How do I install a new driver for this COM Port?