Ports (COM & LPT)?

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   Physically, it's a 9-pin header on the bottom edge of the board, labelled COM1, next to the RESET CMOS link. It's a legacy communications device - before USB most PCs came with two of them. I used to connect to the Internet via a dial-up modem plugged into a COM port. As far as the UEFI BIOS is concerned, I would expect it to appear on the \Advanced\South Bridge Configuration page but I can't confirm that because my particular board doesn't have a COM port.

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JohnM Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 20 Feb 2018 Location: UK Status: Offline Points: 267	Post Options Post Reply Quote JohnM Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Ports (COM & LPT)? Posted: 04 May 2018 at 10:28am
	Physically, it's a 9-pin header on the bottom edge of the board, labelled COM1, next to the RESET CMOS link. It's a legacy communications device - before USB most PCs came with two of them. I used to connect to the Internet via a dial-up modem plugged into a COM port. As far as the UEFI BIOS is concerned, I would expect it to appear on the \Advanced\South Bridge Configuration page but I can't confirm that because my particular board doesn't have a COM port.
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	I've noticed an entry in Device Manager called Ports (COM & LPT) and a sub-entry below that called Communications Port (COM1). Isn't that for legacy connectivity? Thought I disabled all that stuff in UEFI. Anyone know where it's located? AMD Ryzen 5 1600 ASRock AB350 Pro4 MSI GeForce GTX 1060 Gaming X Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Microsoft Windows 10 Pro