thawkins 0 Posted February 28, 2000 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! Share this post Link to post
euankirkhope 0 Posted February 28, 2000 Your PC isn't ACPI compatible probably. All you need to do is get a bios update from compaq. Or go into system properties (win+break), and select hardware/device manager/computer and change computer type to standard PC (you'll find it by up[censored] the driver and clicking on "display a list of all known drivers..." then "show all hardware of this device class") The PC'll then redetect everything after a reboot and you'll also loose some power management stuff like hibernate! I'd prefer the bios update though. Although its a balance between knackering windows (reinstall), or knackering motherboard (bios update failure = boot block recovery or new mobo) Share this post Link to post
thawkins 0 Posted February 28, 2000 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? Share this post Link to post
