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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

 

  • ieee488

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    Posted April 17th, 2021 10:00

    It is possible a defect on the field device damaged the serial port.

     

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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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    Posted April 18th, 2021 09:00

    Dell has Dell Diagnostics. F12 at bootup.

     

    If the serial ports went bad with same equipment, it lends credence to the equipment causing failure.