Ports vanished from Device Manager

[Jack]

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I first noticed the problem when all of a sudden the Palm Pilot would not
sink. Went into the Device Manager and the whole Ports section is missing. I
installed a Lexmark printer and the software recently but this has worked in
the past on the same machine - XP Home. BIOS does not have anything about the
ports.
Hot Synch manager complains that COM1 is not available...
Is there a way to get the ports back? I went to Dell and tried to reinstall
the drivers but to no avail. Not much in the registry on the topic - pretty
much matches my other XP machine (PRO) which has the Ports listed. Windows
updates are all in.

If anyone can shed some light on this, it would be great.

 

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"Jack" <Jack@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I first noticed the problem when all of a sudden the Palm Pilot would not
>sink. Went into the Device Manager and the whole Ports section is missing. I
>installed a Lexmark printer and the software recently but this has worked in
>the past on the same machine - XP Home. BIOS does not have anything about the
>ports.

See "How to Restore the Operating System to a Previous State in
Windows XP" (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=306084).

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[Jack]

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"Thorsten Matzner" wrote:

> "Jack" <Jack@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >I first noticed the problem when all of a sudden the Palm Pilot would not
> >sink. Went into the Device Manager and the whole Ports section is missing. I
> >installed a Lexmark printer and the software recently but this has worked in
> >the past on the same machine - XP Home. BIOS does not have anything about the
> >ports.
>
> See "How to Restore the Operating System to a Previous State in
> Windows XP" (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=306084).
>
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>
Thank you for your post, Thorsten. I tried restoring and it did not work.

I will just reinstall Windows.


Thanks again,
Jack

 

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"Jack" <Jack@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Thank you for your post, Thorsten. I tried restoring and it did not work.
>I will just reinstall Windows.

Do so. See "How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade (Reinstallation) of
Windows XP" (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315341). for details.

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