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Ones_Zeros
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April 17th, 2021 09:00
Serial Ports Stopped Working
Hello
I have an Latitude 5424 Rugged laptop that both serial ports has quit working.
I find it odd that both serial ports quit working and thought it was a driver issue.
- I have updated the BIOS
- Used Dell Command to update any device drivers.
- I have uninstalled the serial ports in device manager and reinstalled them
None of these steps seem to have worked.
I use the serial ports to connect to legacy field devices.
Does anyone have any other ideas or had this happen to their laptop?
thanks for helping
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Ones_Zeros
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Posted April 18th, 2021 07:00
I guess anything is possible, but the two serial ports went out at different times
Do you guys have any other tests I can do on the serial ports to test if it’s the actual port or software related?
thanks
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ieee488
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Posted April 17th, 2021 10:00
It is possible a defect on the field device damaged the serial port.