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    No Com Ports Listed

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by iholla, Dec 31, 2007.

  1. iholla

    iholla Notebook Geek

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    Im trying to sync my Palm to a website and it wants Com-1 but it says its unavailable and will let me know when it becomes available. Well there is nothing hooked up to my laptop (HP Vista) and I go to device manager and there are NO COM Ports listed at all to even see whats going on?

    Its really not a Palm problem I think--seems my ports have dissapeared? any clues
     
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  2. TuxDude

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    Does your laptop have any physical COM ports ? And how are you connecting the palm to your laptop - USB or Bluetooth or WiFi ?
     
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  3. iholla

    iholla Notebook Geek

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    Palm, Im using USB. Nothing else plugged in to a port anywhere! Thing that gets me though is going into device manager and there are No com ports even listed? and I know there should be
     
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    Actually when you connect the Palm or any other phone/device to a computer using USB port it wont use a physical COM port but use a virtual one..... Is the Palm device shown as some modem device in your device manager ? And if so there will be an option to choose which COM port to use for that and use a number like COM3 or COM4 (avoid COM1 and COM2)....

    I think COM ports wont be listed in Device Manger in Vista unless there are physical COM ports on your laptop.....
     
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  5. iholla

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    The Hot sync manager for the palm, I can go into and it list only Com 3 as selected.

    Hmm on my XP machine it list all my Ports? Maybe Vista is differant in that sense?
     
    iholla, Dec 31, 2007
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