Re: Need help with my CP290

["Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Charles Sullivan" <cwsulliv@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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> > My computers have always recognized the unit and I never remember having
to
> > install any drivers.  But over the weekend my PC crashed and I had to
> > restore it to like new out of the box.   When I tried to use the CP290 I
> > can't get any communications between the serial port and the unit.  It
used
> > to work on Com 4.  When I look at the Hardware Profile it indicates a
big
> > yellow question mark.

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> > Carl

> Most older PCs came equipped with only two COM ports.  If yours
> has four you probably have an add-on serial card installed,
> and supplied with the card when you bought it would have been a
> floppy or CD with the drivers for it.

Good call!  But I thought that the CP290 had serious timing issues outside
of the DOS environment in which it was born?  Am I misremembering something?

--
Bobby G.