Certain type of an adapter

[strep3241]

PCI may not be common anymore but most motherboards still have PCI slots.

I did open the case and check and the PCI slots are 5 volts, the notch is towards the front of the case. So it should work.

 

[strep3241]

Just a little update. I am still having trouble getting Heatwatch to work. I bought this adapter, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16815166004

I can not get it to work with this adapter. I have tried both ports and no luck. The adapter installs successfully according to device manager. I also tried both PCI ports on the motherboard with no luck. I did notice one thing, when plugged into the bottom motherboard, it shows up as com3 and com4 ports under device manager. When I plug it into the top motherboard port, it shows up as com6 and com7. The problem is under heatwatch, the highest I can go up to is com4. I don't know if it would make a difference or not unless the bottom motherboard port is bad. If it was bad, could it still recognize the card?

With such a specific system, I imagine I am going to have a hard time getting an answer. Heck, I have talked to a guy from Heatwatch and he could not figure it out either. Something like this is kind of hard to solve over the phone or internet. The problem is the company is located in New Jersey so it's not like he can drive down and look at it.

He has a Dell 2400 which Heatwatch works on but I am afraid that could give up at any time. That is why I would like to get it working on his new Windows 7 build.

 

[imagoon]

In current releases of Windows, the comX ports no longer map to the old defined addresses. It is possible that heatwatch is looking for a serial port IE 1 at 3F8h, 2 at 2F8h, 3 at 3E8h, 4 at 2E8h. This could mean it is attempting to take direct control of the serial port hardware. If that is the case, the USB one may never work... If you go in to device manager and show hidden devices, you can delete the other drivers and get the ports to select a different address.

Just a guess at the moment.