Com Ports In Use - Sorted!

[Guest Confucious]

After having all sorts of fun and games with my BT modem being allocated COM12 and so being unable to use ActiveSync via BT because all the other Com ports were "In Use" all you have to do ignore the error message and select the port that is the "Incoming" BT port for the phone. after doing this and rebooting ive got my BT working (again!)

http://www.help.perle.com/index.asp?a=4&q=32

[Guest Dr Who]

Well spotted confucious!

However it looks really different in XP Pro (or at least SP2). Figured it out and cleared out ports 7 and 8 but was hoping the com ports would automatically drop on reboot. Installing the Widcomm drivers under SP2 was hard enough once and I can't be bothered to go through it again. I *think* it would work, it certainly is better than anything I came up with. Just a shame you can't force a change in the port number of the existing BT ports.

[Guest krelvinaz]

Well spotted confucious!

However it looks really different in XP Pro (or at least SP2). Figured it out and cleared out ports 7 and 8 but was hoping the com ports would automatically drop on reboot.

Where are you looking to see what ports are being used by what. All I know is Hardware Devices and sort by resources by connection. I have all com ports 4 - 8 used. BT wants to start on 10.

[Guest Confucious]

I only have 2 hardware COM ports. The rest were all BT devices which I had uninstalled so I knew that none of them were actually used. What have you got installed that is using your COM ports and can you tell which ports they are using?

[Guest Dr Who]

Just had a look in Device Manager under Ports. I had only BT ports showing from 9 up to 20. Don't have any serial or parallel ports so wasn't expecting to see many other things listed, but to be safe only removed ports 7 and 8, which should be enough to get activesync working. If you have all your coms 4-8 in use by hardware then you may have problems. You could always uninstall some of the hardware residing on the lower ports, install your BT and then reinstall the hardware. Assuming of course that your harware will function correctly on the higher port numbers.