Comm ports are connected through a serial port on the back of your computer. Your model has only one serial port. If you have an external modem, it is likely connected to that serial port and there will not be another one available to use.
carlh wrote:
- I am getting a program that requires me to connect
- my diabetes monitor to the computer through a com
- port. My commputer, Dimension XPS D333, did not
- come with a very good diagram of the back of the
- computer. The only com port that I know of is the
- one the modem is plugged into. I'm sure there is
- another one back there but I don't know how to
- identify it. So, my dumb question is: Is there
- another com port back there and what does it look
- like?
-
-
Hi,
Compare the plug on your diabetes monitor to the connections on the back of the system. Do any of them match?
If not could you discribe what the connector looks like?
The reason I ask is that a Comm port is an internal address and not an input connector.
volcano11
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December 31st, 2001 19:00
Comm ports are connected through a serial port on the back of your computer. Your model has only one serial port. If you have an external modem, it is likely connected to that serial port and there will not be another one available to use.
Steve
Thereal-dbk4297
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December 31st, 2001 19:00
carlh wrote:
- I am getting a program that requires me to connect
- my diabetes monitor to the computer through a com
- port. My commputer, Dimension XPS D333, did not
- come with a very good diagram of the back of the
- computer. The only com port that I know of is the
- one the modem is plugged into. I'm sure there is
- another one back there but I don't know how to
- identify it. So, my dumb question is: Is there
- another com port back there and what does it look
- like?
-
-
Hi,
Compare the plug on your diabetes monitor to the connections on the back of the system. Do any of them match?
If not could you discribe what the connector looks like?
The reason I ask is that a Comm port is an internal address and not an input connector.
Mis Dos Centavos,
Darrell
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