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Why are only two of the four ports on my QSP-100 showing up on my Windows CE Ipaq?

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Why are only two of the four ports on my QSP-100 showing up on my Windows CE Ipaq?

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A. The usual problem with newer Ipaqs is that they don t show the last two ports for The QSP-100. The system only allows for COM1 through COM9 and all but Two are taken up by built-in communication devices. In order to use the four QSP-100 ports, you must disable two of the built-in COM devices. This will involve changing registry entries under the HKLM\Drivers\Builtin key. You can edit the registry with the tools you are developing your application with when you are synched to the device. You can use EVC tools for this purpose, and probably EVB tools as well. You can also build an install to disable the two devices via the registry keys below and the information for that can be found with these tools. Under the HKLM\Drivers\Builtin key, determine which two ports you can deactivate (For example, the ones under Serial8 and Serial5 which are used for Bluetooth serial and dial up connections. You will have to determine which devices you can do without if this in not satisfactory for your

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