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    Posted: 03 May 2018 at 6:44pm
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?

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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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