Maybe its disabled in the BIOS as well as being a header. on Saturday 07/28/2007 Zachary Kline(Z_kline at hotmail.com) wrote > Hiya, > Okay, I guess we've pretty much established that a PCI serial adapter won't work, contrary to what I heard from the hardware guy I talked to. Hm. What're the odds that my motherboard has a serial port inbuilt into it? I've had this computer for a couple years. Windows isn't saying anything about a COM port. > Aside from that, are there any known options for serial communication which have been tried out and work? If so, what, and if not, what else can I try? > Thanks much, > Zack. > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com