Bill, even if you make BIOS changes to a port it won't affect the port's operation under Windoze, since it's all controlled by a kernel mode driver.
matt W6NIA On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:18:17 -0600, you wrote: >Julian, G4ILO wrote: > >> Have you tried looking in Device Manager at the properties for the >> serial port? On mine, on the tab where you can set the baud rate etc. >> there is a button marked Advanced Settings... > >Yes. The advanced settings have nothing to do with the RS-232 control signals, >unfortunately. And there is no replacement serial driver. Googling various >combinations of key words turns up nothing related to this bug. Apparently >this >Dell RS-232 design error is so arcane relative to what virtually all laptop >users use their computers for, that nobody has ever complained about it. :-) > >My last step is to go into the BIOS and see if there are any controls in there >that live below the level of the OS. > >Oh well. > >Bill W5WVO > >______________________________________________________________ >Elecraft mailing list >Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > >This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
