re can t set com in article mtc fnnews fnal gov uchima fncrdh fnal gov mike uchima writes i also am having a problem with com on a g k system i have a gateway k dx system with the ati ultrapro video card identical to the system mentioned in the original posting except mhz instead of for some reason the system refuses to recognize com for example if i configure the on board motherboard com ports for com com everything is fine if i configure them for com com com works ok but com is not recoznized the diagnostics shipped with the system the msd utility windows all act as if the port isn t there it s not an irq conflict because i can swap the irqs for com and com and com still works and com still doesn t i actually noticed this problem when trying to install additional ports a boca high speed s p card the behavior with the boca card was exactly the same e g it would work as com com or com but not as com this has the smell of an i o port conflict but i can t imagine with what there are no other expansion cards installed in the machine other than the video card and gateway would have to be pretty stupid to have the on board com conflict with something else on the motherboard has anybody else had this problem i ran into this about six months ago my system is a gw dx v megs ram meg ati gup vlb it seems the problem is that the ati graphics ultra pro card consumes the com port for some reason so only com are available i believe this is documented somewhere in the system manuals but i can t recall where dave peterschmidt
