Yes you're right my COM1 is soldered directly to my MOBO,together with LPT port,on-board VGA,MIDI/Game port and audio board and the 2 USB port, they are stock right at the back end of my MOBO.. There is a serial port2 COM2 Header (9 PINS) located at the bottom part of the board..And this is my problem.
At 2004-02-08 16:44, Uwe Zimmermann wrote: >Hi Jaap, > >Sunday, February 8, 2004, 3:09:21 PM, you wrote: > >>>You might start with comparing it to the cable attached you your other >>>com port - or you might even use this cable for test purposes... > >JvG> His other com port connector is soldered onto the mother board. >JvG> (Strange that not both or soldered on, but if that is the case...). > >I should start to read more carefully, before answering... but I am as >confused as you are. Reading carefully is indeed very important and it can't be stressed enough ;-), but I did: >My MOBO is equipt with 2 COM Port,COM1 is build in >into the board,soldered directly into the mobo,and >there is a provision to add a second port,COM2. It clearly says: 'Soldered directly into the mobo'. So *who* didn't read careful enough, mister wiseguy? ;-) >Is this an ATX motherboard with one of the com >ports directly attached to the backplane? That is indeed what I was assuming, but now that I think some more about it it might also be one of those older quite flat business netwerk PC's, which had all of their connectors on the back of the PCB itself (and only one layer of them) and had to be cheap to produce so had only one thing of everything that mattered. You had to put an extension board in the middle of the motherboard and then you could add one or two ISA boards (even perhaps PCI boards?) parallel to the main board. I just went and got an old (then $45 second hand) i286-one from my archive (spare room) to have look, but it has two serial ports (one for the mouse and one to connect to the central computer I guess), and I just connected it to an old black and white monitor and it still works fine, at least the BIOS! It has no harddisk and I already took out the floppy drive years ago, so it can't do much more than start-up the BIOS. And the second piece of good news was that there was still a good 6-connector floppy cable inside! Greetings, Jaap -- Author: Jaap van Ganswijk INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===== Ronnie B. Tabanao Everything Electronics Services #06 Juan Luna St.,La Castellana,Negros Occidental 6131 Philippines __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html -- Author: rhonn tabanao INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Hosting, San Diego, California -- http://www.fatcity.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB CHIPDIR-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
