Re: [Thinkpad] More mysteries on COM1 (TP 600X)

First, read my earlier post
Second, 98 is a plug and pray system - it will reset your COM port in the
BIOS every time it runs......
Go into the hardware device manager of EACH OS on the machine and set the
serial port to COM1. Do not use automatic settings. Eventually, you will get
the port hard wired as COM1
Since you use different OS on this machine, this could be a real problem.
DOS does not see COM 1 because something has reset it to some other address!
Win 98 will see the COM port even if it is turned off in BIOS, but DOS
won't.
So you need to FIX the address and resources as COM1 in each and every OS
that you use.
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From: "Dr. Jeffrey Race" <jrace@attglobal.net>
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Subject: [Thinkpad] More mysteries on COM1 (TP 600X)

> At first the serial port on the rear of the 600X would not work in Win98
> (default OEM install), DOS, or OS/2. (I have three partitions using Boot
> Magic.)
>
> An IBM tech had me boot to Win98, UNINSTALL the COM port, and re-install
it.
> Now I can access a modem on the rear serial connector from a DOS box in
Win98.
>
> However from the DOS partition I cannot access the serial port on the rear
> i.e. PROCOMM sees nothing. If I run MODE COM1 I get back "illegal device
> name - COM1" which I interpret to mean this port is not active. This is
true
> even if I boot without an AUTOEXEC.BAT or CONFIG.SYS file. However PS2 ?
SE
> shows that the serial port is ON.
>
> In OS/2 I get
>
> [C:\]mode com2
> SYS0021: The drive is not ready.
>
> (COM1 on the OS/2 partition is the PC Card modem.)
>
> How can this be and what can I do to get my serial port back in DOS and
> OS/2?
>
> Jeffrey Race
>
>
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