I cannot receive data from my GPS using Hyperterminal yet
it works on all other machines I've tried. The machine is
a Compaq E500 notebook and I had the same problem in
Win98 and now XP, I can get keystroke mirroring by
looping data in/data out cableing to the serial port,
suggesting that the port is open. any suggestions?

go in to bios and check youre com port irq setings

>-----Original Message-----
>go in to bios and check youre com port irq setings
>.
>Thanks for considering my problem. the bios setup does
not give the IRQ details, however the dia program shows
irq 4 and no conflicts. However I don't understand what
your suggesting?

"Rogie" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >go in to bios and check youre com port irq setings
> >.
> >Thanks for considering my problem. the bios setup does
> not give the IRQ details, however the dia program shows
> irq 4 and no conflicts. However I don't understand what
> your suggesting?

What he is trying to get you to check is that the COM port is actually turned on
and assigned a standard value (i.e. COM1/2/3/4 I/O 3f8/3e8/2f8/2e8).

If you can see that IRQ4 is showing up under the COM ports, then it is turned on
to some sort of hardware. My laptop can have the COM port switch from the 9-pin
RS-232 port over to the IR port. That is the other thing you might double check
in BIOS.

Paul