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Re: Bloody serial ports!!!!



I have seen this on USB to serial as you say.
The only advice I can give is to have a script on boot up that
modifies the registry to the values you want. This assume that the
port mappings are in the registry!!

On 10/11/05, Paul Gale <groups@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Giving me such grief!
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> I have a W2K3 server with an 8 port serial card. After a recent
reboot, one of the ports seemed to stop working. I thought I'd remove the
device driver and re-install. I also checked hidden devices to make sure
there weren't any hidden serial ports that were screwing things up (using
devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1). There weren't.
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> I rebooted again and now my meteors have moved serial ports! Well, one
is on port 8 where it was 5 and I can't get the other to work.
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> I've seen Windows renumber USB-to-serial ports before but not fixed
cards.
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> As you can imagine, having 8 serial ports renumbering themselves on a
reboot isn't particularly good in an HA environment!!!
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> Any ideas?
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> Thanks,
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