Bloody serial ports!!!!

["Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Giving me such grief!

I have a W2K3 server with an 8 port serial card. After a recent reboot,
one=
of the ports seemed to stop working. I thought I=92d remove the device dri=
ver and re-install. I also checked hidden devices to make sure there weren=
=92t any hidden serial ports that were screwing things up (using
devmgr_sho=
w_nonpresent_devices=3D1). There weren=92t.

I rebooted again and now my meteors have moved serial ports! Well, one is
o=
n port 8 where it was 5 and I can=92t get the other to work.

I=92ve seen Windows renumber USB-to-serial ports before but not fixed
cards=
.

As you can imagine, having 8 serial ports renumbering themselves on a
reboo=
t isn=92t particularly good in an HA environment!!!

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Paul.





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