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February 3rd, 2004 22:00

Serial Port/Com Port problems - figure out who is using my COM port?

​I have a Dell Inspiron 8200 and am trying to get my GPS receiver to communicate with it. I keep getting an error message telling me that the COM port is in use. I see that the Modem is using COM 3, but who is using COM 1? How can I tell? I've gone into the BIOS and set the serial port to COM 1.​

​Help?​

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February 3rd, 2004 22:00

Do you have any Palm or Sony clie type software? That will often take it over, even if you sync with USB.

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February 4th, 2004 13:00

Thanks....it turns out that my boss' computer had the Compaq iPaq sync program installed.

 

Joe

 

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