[Dx4win] COM Ports (again)

[John Holmes]

Hi Jim.
Unfortunately, this isn't easily possible when using XP Home. I had thought
the same myself, but no joy there.
Thanks for the idea, anyway.
73,
John W9ILY


-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Reisert AD1C [mailto:jjreisert at alum.mit.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 5:14 PM
To: w9ily at arrl.net
Cc: dx4win at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Dx4win] COM Ports (again)


On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 3:48 PM, John Holmes <w9ily at arrl.net> wrote:

> I just encountered a problem that had not previously appeared. I'm running
> version 7.07.02 and can no longer have both radio control and MMTTY
running
> at the same time. MMTTY is assigned to COM2 and radio control to COM3. I
can
> either run MMTTY or have radio control, not both. They are connected to a
> two port serial card with one port assigned COM2 with an I/O range of
> AC00-AC07 IRQ22 and the other port is assigned COM3 with an I/O range of
> A800-A807 and IRQ22. Yes, the IRQ numbers are the same, but it's virtually
> impossible to manually change them in XP Home.

Right-click on My Computer, choose Properties, then click on the
Device Manager button.  Select the "+" sign next to the COM (serial)
ports.

If you right-click on a port, then you should be able to select both
device address and IRQ. The standard values for those two ports are:

    Com 2  address 02F8  IRQ 3
    Com 3  address 03E8  IRQ 4

You'll likely have to reboot after making this change.

73 - Jim AD1C

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Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us