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jaker1   10-28-2009 at 04:34:58 AM

I have recently purchased a new intel DP55KG motherboard to assemble a new desktop. One of my peripherals is an external modem
but the motherboard does not have a serial port. Anyone have any info on compatible pci serial port cards or USB serial ports.

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sturm   10-28-2009 at 02:10:12 PM

Your seriously still using a serial port modem? For what?
There are usb to serail port adapters out there. I have a keyspan adapter that I use a work for an old telephone system.

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jaker1   11-06-2009 at 04:01:53 AM

sturm wrote :

Your seriously still using a serial port modem? For what?
There are usb to serail port adapters out there. I have a keyspan adapter that I use a work for an old telephone system.



I hear what you're saying. Unfortunately I am forced to use the serial port modem because the medical software we use in our office requires an antiquated modem for bill submissions. If I could chuck it out the window, I would.

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Grumpy9117   11-06-2009 at 01:03:04 PM

I use Rosewill PCI serial port cards from Newegg. Don't use the USB to serial adapters.

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Zoron   11-06-2009 at 06:57:26 PM

Lava is also a good choice for serial port cards. Unfortunately, there is still a lot of DOS-based software out there in the medical community... so if the modem doesn't have DOS support, you're out of luck. Serial port external modems are usually guaranteed to work with DOS-based software. You still can find hardware-based internal modems as well that have their own COM port... but I haven't had the chance to see how well they work with DOS.

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