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Problem with COM ports/touchscreen in W2K

New MessageProblem with COM ports/touchscreen in W2K (modified 0 times) bram
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I had a GCT running well under WinME, with the touch screen working. I decided to upgrade to W2K doing a clean install and using the supposed W2K touchscreen drivers. I’ve tried this now twice, but each time I get errors that the driver can’t communicate with the touchscreen (I’ve tried every COM port). I think the reason is that in the Device Manager, COM2 has a “!” next to it. I’ve reinstalled clean twice and tried everything I can think of (including removing the modem), but nothing changes. There was also an “Unspecified Modem” present, even after I removed the internal modem, but when I deleted this it did not get redetected at startup. Has anyone else had the same experience, and how did you resolve it?

Also, could someone who has WinME running please go into Device Manager and give me the resources (IRQ and memory range) that each COM port is using? I should’ve copied these down before overwriting WinME but I forgot. Maybe I can manually configure the COM ports.

Finally, could somebody please tell me which COM port the touchscreen is normally associated with?

Thanks very much!

09-08-2003 18:49:53

New MessageRE:Problem with COM ports/touchscreen in W2K (modified 0 times) BigDog
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The GCT touchscreen controller does not use the com ports; it is directly integrated into the GCT and addressable by memroy address, this is why the standard touchscreen controller software drivers do not work on the GCT.

I personally have used the TTL com ports and using Badflash's RS232 board which was made for the I-opener and I was able to get two working RS232 ports for emu.

Any TS driver package that has a chance of working must be able to configure for a non-usb or com ports but rather a internal or built in controller.

09-11-2003 12:06:05

New MessageRE:Problem with COM ports/touchscreen in W2K (modified 0 times) bram
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But if I remember correctly, the driver for WinME (which works fine) does ask for a COM port number which it uses to communciate with the touchscreen. I didn't mean to apply that there was actually a header for a serial port on the motherboard which the touchscreen is connected to, but I thought that it was internally connected through a COM port. Or is this wrong?

Thanks for the reply!

09-11-2003 21:33:09

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