COM port problems. VIA MII

**boostedGT-S** · 02-20-2005, 01:10 PM

I have a VIA MII mobo and it wont detect my COM port. When i go to the device manager it says the device can not start.

I can't find driver for this.

any suggestions?

thanks!

**Don 944 LA** · 02-20-2005, 03:19 PM

make sure ALL the Via drivers are installed from CD

**boostedGT-S** · 02-20-2005, 10:48 PM

ok, i tried that but still nothing. what else can i try?

**gospeed.racer** · 02-20-2005, 11:07 PM

You have it enabled in Bios, right?

**boostedGT-S** · 02-21-2005, 12:30 AM

where would that option be under?

**gospeed.racer** · 02-21-2005, 12:32 AM

while booting up the PC, press the delete button a few times (right when it reports the memory and drives and such, black screen)

You will come to a blue Bios screen..select SuperIO Device, and make sure the serial port is set to Auto

**boostedGT-S** · 02-21-2005, 09:55 AM

Thanks for the help.
I went into the bios. It wasn't disabled but it was set to one of the other choices. I set serial port 1 to auto and serial port 2 to auto. I went into the Device Manager and it showed two com1 ports (both not working), I changed the second com1 port to com2 and still the same thing.

Any other usggestions?

**BigToach** · 02-22-2005, 01:09 AM

i kinda had this same problem, all i did was uninstall the drivers and disabled them, then reinstalled the 4-in-1 drivers and reinstalled the ms ones too and both ports work fine for me now.

**boostedGT-S** · 02-22-2005, 10:49 AM

how did you reinstall the ms ones? with the windows cd?

I re-installed 4-1 and i get two com1 ports. Is it supposed to be like that? before it would show com2 and com3

**boostedGT-S** · 02-22-2005, 11:45 PM

when i got into the fisrt com1 port this is the conflit device list:
i/o range 03fc - 0403
IRQ: 15
Input/Output Range 03FC - 0403 used by:
Motherboard resources
Communications Port (COM1)
Interrupt Request 15 used by:
Communications Port (COM1)
Secondary IDE Channel

second com1 port shows the same