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Astronomy => Technical => Topic started by: RobertM on Apr 27, 2010, 21:58:28

Title: Help ! - xp usb serial device malarky
Post by: RobertM on Apr 27, 2010, 21:58:28
Anyone know of a painless way of resetting usb serial ports back to sensible values ?  I have a 4 port serial to usb converter and it's now up to comm port number 44 !   It's causing havoc with my setup.

Serves me right for not marking which usb port it went into in the first place !

Many thanks
Robert
Title: Re: Help ! - xp usb serial device malarky
Post by: MarkS on Apr 27, 2010, 22:04:32

Control Panel | System | Hardware | Device Manager   right click on the COM port in question and then one of the options lets you force a different number for it.
Title: Re: Help ! - xp usb serial device malarky
Post by: RobertM on Apr 27, 2010, 22:13:48
Brilliant !!! Thanks a lot Mark

That and a swift reboot has sorted it out.