Com 1 and Com 2 are physical ports and have IRQ
assignments
From there the ports are virtual There 256 of them. The
problem is once they are assigned they cannot be deleted,
but they can be un-installed there a trick to do. I had a
laptop that I was having issues with and had gone up to
port 16, from failed installs. The program would not
recognize anything above port 5. When you install
something it is automatically assigned the first open
port, but it goes to the higher # ( if 5,6,7 are open and
8,9 are (in use) it will assign port 10 you install
something, thus the problem.
How I corrected it was to take a USB modem and keep
installing it and go into the device manager and change
it
to a port that showed (in Use) that I knew was not, then
when that port is accepted go back in and uninstall it.
Go to the advanced tab> advanced Port settings>
Com port # and then force it to the one you want out
select it> ok, then back out. Then un-install it,
reinstall it
and repeat till you get them out.
