Re: Serial Port at COM5

From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Thu Oct 14 1999 - 12:33:53 EDT

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did you chect system properties..
look at your Irq's..
something has obviously changed itself.. some device driver may have run
amok..!! :-)

bukys_at_cs.rochester.edu wrote:

> I have a ThinkPad 770 (9548-40U) 13" TFT. Windows 95 (OSR1).
>
> At some point my serial port has numbered itself COM5,
> which is pretty inconvenient because HyperTerminal only
> knows how to open COM1 through COM4.
>
> My infrared port is COM1.
> COM2 through COM4 are apparently just not present.
>
> Is there some easy way to renumber/rename my serial port
> back down to 2, 3, or 4?
>
> Thanks.

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