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Serial port wont work
I have a problem that I cant seem to work out. When my wife was writing her PhD I bought her a laptop that had fast drive, memory etc and 3 USB ports as well as a serial and parallel port on the machine. I was thinking Id use it later for astonomy.
But I cant get the serial port to work at all. I look in device manager and the serial port is there and it says its OK but when I try to use it (update Synscan software or communicate using a planetarium program), she not work. Ive gone into the BIOS and set the port to auto but still no deal.
Any really computer savy people out there that can help? Im totally stupid as far as this goes and Im more a danger to myself than anything.
I must say that to run a planetarium prog or update Synscan software I use an older laptop and the serial port on that is fine.
Regards, Allan
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