COM port problems. VIA MII

boostedGT-S · 02-20-2005, 12:10 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, 02:19 PM

make sure ALL the Via drivers are installed from CD

boostedGT-S · 02-20-2005, 09:48 PM

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

gospeed.racer · 02-20-2005, 10:07 PM

You have it enabled in Bios, right?

boostedGT-S · 02-20-2005, 11:30 PM

where would that option be under?

gospeed.racer · 02-20-2005, 11:32 PM

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, 08:55 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, 12:09 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, 09:49 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, 10:45 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

BigToach · 02-22-2005, 11:38 PM

to install the ms ones i just uninstalled,restarted, then went to device manager and hit update drivers or something and it found them in the signed driver list thing.
and as for the irq stuff, you can change the irq settings in the bios settings somewhere, look at the manual and itll be more specific.

boostedGT-S · 02-24-2005, 08:55 AM

still nothin, I called VIA and they told me to send the mobo back, but they didnt even try to trobule shoot. I'm gonna try do to a clean install and if that doesnt work i guess i'll send it back

BigToach · 02-24-2005, 01:45 PM

yeah sounds like that is your best alternative.
if you do have to send it back its not that bad, cause my first m210k had some chip burnout and i had to exchange it. Other than a messup on ups' part the exchange was really easy.

boostedGT-S · 02-25-2005, 02:37 PM

ok thanks for the info!

boostedGT-S · 03-28-2005, 09:37 AM

I got a replacement mobo and it still doesn't work! I did a format/clean install and I still have the same problem, what else could it be??
thanks! =(