re: Lost COM ports on a laptop. How to reinstall? Saturday, February 7, 2004 at 6:30 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by David Morris (3 messages posted) This may be the problem. I see where parallel ports are configured in BIOS, but I can't find COM ports listed anywhere. Any suggestions on how to check on that? David On Saturday, February 7, 2004 at 9:22 am, C K wrote: >If the battery went completely dead, your BIOS settings may have been lost or effected. > You will need to make sure the COM ports are enabled in the BIOS with the correct >addressing before XP will recognize external ports on the motherboard otherwise, >the addresses are released for use with other devices. You might want to check all >BIOS settings to make sure they are OK and write them down in case it happens again. > C K > > Written in response to: re: Lost COM ports on a laptop. How to reinstall? (C K: Saturday, February 7, 2004 at 9:22 am) Responses to this message: re: Lost COM ports on a laptop. How to reinstall? (C K: Saturday, February 7, 2004 at 7:54 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Lost COM ports on a laptop. How to reinstall? (David Morris: Fri, Feb 6, 2004, 8:33 pm) re: Lost COM ports on a laptop. How to reinstall? (triplate: Fri, Feb 6, 2004, 8:41 pm) re: Lost COM ports on a laptop. How to reinstall? (jaf: Fri, Feb 6, 2004, 8:42 pm) re: Lost COM ports on a laptop. How to reinstall? (triplate: Fri, Feb 6, 2004, 8:45 pm) re: Lost COM ports on a laptop. How to reinstall? (jaf: Fri, Feb 6, 2004, 8:46 pm) re: Lost COM ports on a laptop. How to reinstall? (triplate: Fri, Feb 6, 2004, 8:48 pm) re: Lost COM ports on a laptop. How to reinstall? (triplate: Fri, Feb 6, 2004, 8:49 pm) re: Lost COM ports on a laptop. How to reinstall? (triplate: Fri, Feb 6, 2004, 8:46 pm) re: Lost COM ports on a laptop. How to reinstall? (jaf: Fri, Feb 6, 2004, 8:49 pm) re: Lost COM ports on a laptop. How to reinstall? (triplate: Fri, Feb 6, 2004, 8:54 pm) re: Lost COM ports on a laptop. How to reinstall? (Ricer46: Fri, Feb 6, 2004, 11:37 pm) re: Lost COM ports on a laptop. How to reinstall? (triplate: Sat, Feb 7, 2004, 5:36 am) re: Lost COM ports on a laptop. How to reinstall? (triplate: Fri, Feb 6, 2004, 8:57 pm) re: Lost COM ports on a laptop. How to reinstall? (jaf: Fri, Feb 6, 2004, 9:10 pm) re: Lost COM ports on a laptop. How to reinstall? (David Morris: Sat, Feb 7, 2004, 6:19 pm) re: Lost COM ports on a laptop. How to reinstall? (triplate: Sat, Feb 7, 2004, 8:57 pm) re: Lost COM ports on a laptop. How to reinstall? (C K: Sat, Feb 7, 2004, 9:22 am) re: Lost COM ports on a laptop. How to reinstall? (David Morris: Sat, Feb 7, 2004, 6:30 pm) re: Lost COM ports on a laptop. How to reinstall? (C K: Sat, Feb 7, 2004, 7:54 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum