After buying a new laptop with no RS232 COM port i bought one of these from ebay (search USB COMport)for about £6. Everything looked good on the sellers page and couldnt wait for it to arrive. it turned up, i installed the driver disc and............
NOTHING!!
After hours of online searching and finding not much help for them ive decided to make this how to. Enjoy.
If you find this tut helpfull please click the thanks button at the bottom of the post. Cheers.
heres the quick version
NOTHING!!
After hours of online searching and finding not much help for them ive decided to make this how to. Enjoy.
If you find this tut helpfull please click the thanks button at the bottom of the post. Cheers.
heres the quick version
plug the cable into a usb port, the found new hardware wizard will start.
install the drivers from the disc as prompted
go to control panel
dpouble click system
click hardware
clickdevice manager
click ports (com lpt)
double click usb-serial bridge
click port settings
click advanced
click comport number and change to com1
click OK
after doing this TAKE NOTE OF THE ACTUAL USB PORT YOU ARE USING on your laptop as if you plug the lead into a different one it WILL NOT WORK
you now have a perfect com1 for any program that needs it using usb
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