I do not see anything on my machines that is accessing a serial port. I have gone through a list on device manager and it started exploring each of the services one by one. Several minutes ago I installed a program called "Serial Port Monitor".
The error message that I got from serial port monitor reads "session creation failed - cannot start monitoring device, COM1. Error messages access is denied code (0X 5) internal error. I am going to go back and take a look at my battery backup power supply disconnect it and leave it disconnected. That was a good suggestion - I am hoping that it will work. I wondered if a reset of the FT 1000 would accomplish anything. I get an error message before the radios turned on I would not think that the error would be in the radio. I see if I can find a procedure for resetting CPU anyway and give it a shot. First off I will disconnect the battery backup and then I will complete going through the list of services running. Dick Zseltvay KC4COP
