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Communication port is invalid or busy
Please help!!!
My dad's computer has MS ME operating system. Out of the blue and for no apparent reason he gets this message when trying to access AOL: "Communication port is invalid or busy". He took his computer to a local computer shop. The modem worked fine there - no problems. He brought home a new dial up telephone cable. Note that his telephone works fine when plugged into the phone outlet that he is using also. So, all hardware involved checks out. He has the serial keys option off. He is pointing the modem to the same COM port he has always used. Any ideas? We would greatly appreciate any help with this. |
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Communication port is invalid or busy
Did the shop try to use AOL, or just the normal DUN connectiod? - the AOL
one is totally different, and connections can fail with that, while succeeding with the Windows DUN. Depending on the version of AOL, try this Close AOL Open AOL's System Information - r-click on the AOL icon in the System tray (bottom right of the screen), and select System Information.... Click on the Utilities tab Click on the 'Uninstall AOL Adaptor' button When that says OK - reboot After the reboot, open AOL, and it should reinstall the Adaptor, and ask for another reboot Do that, and then see what happens when you open AOL again - it should find the modem properly this time. HTH -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's or http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/f.../Mar27pmvp.asp " wrote in message ... Please help!!! My dad's computer has MS ME operating system. Out of the blue and for no apparent reason he gets this message when trying to access AOL: "Communication port is invalid or busy". He took his computer to a local computer shop. The modem worked fine there - no problems. He brought home a new dial up telephone cable. Note that his telephone works fine when plugged into the phone outlet that he is using also. So, all hardware involved checks out. He has the serial keys option off. He is pointing the modem to the same COM port he has always used. Any ideas? We would greatly appreciate any help with this. |
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