thawkins

Please help! I upgraded a fresh install of Windows 98 to Windows 2000 yesterday and it won't recognise my COM1 & LPT1 ports. In Device Manager I get the message: "This device is disabled because the firmware of the device did not give it the required resources. (Code 29)". My mouse is connected to COM1 and my printer to LPT1. My internal modem is on COM3 and works fine. The thing I don't understand is that I previously did an upgrade of Windows 98 to Windows 2000 Beta RC3 and everything worked fine. I've seen a couple of other people on the board who had the same problem and I think it might be my BIOS, but I've got the latest version from Compaq's site. I'm running a Compaq Presario 5610, P2 350, 196 MB RAM. Please help, I dread the thought of going back to Windows 98!

Thanks for the reply, but my PC already is listed as a 'Standard PC' in Device Manager. I also did a complete reinstall of Win2K from scratch and I still have the same problem. I even changed the 'txtsetup.sif' file to disable ACPI when it installed, no luck. Does anyone have anymore suggestions please?