Setup keyboard to use com1 xp

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Other support options. Share this page. Long long ago, almost all computers had two serial ports, called "COM1" and "COM2", one a with a nine pin and the other with a 25 pin connector.

Now times have changed and the serial port has vanished. Don't give up hope, however. The USB to serial converter has arrived, and it can be used instead. It is usually a dongle which plugs into a USB port, with a nine pin male connecter at the other end.

On my desktop computer, the motherboard has two built in serial ports. So, to find the serial port on your computer, scout around its back. If you find a nine pin male connector two rows, five and four, pins sticking out inside a metal shell it has a serial port built in.

Or get a USB to serial converter and plug it in. Open up Device Manager. Right click on "My Computer" and select properties at the bottom of the list that pops up. Click on the "Hardware" tab. Click on the "Device Manager" button and a something similiar to this picture should appear.

The list of printer and Serial ports available will be shown. Make a note of those, you will need them in the steps that follow. Hyperterminal is a communication program that comes along with windows. You get it by clicking on "all programs", moving on to "Accessories", "Communications" and then there you have it.

If you are opening it up for the first time it will ask you some questions as to country and region, unless you have something to hide it might be better to answer them truthfully. You can select the serial port to use for connecting.

You set up a serial connection by specifying a name anything goes an icon select one and then you come to this screen which lets you specify the exact serial port to use. You can also get to this screen by clicking on the little hand-on-document icon below the title bar. Select the serial port you intend to use. If you are unsure, try each in turn until you stumble on the right one. Next, you will have to set up the connection speed, number of bits, parity and stop bit settings.

They are dependent on what is on the receiving end of the link. You have to use the same settings at both the ends or the link will not work.

As an example, I have set up the connection for a speed of baud, eight data bits, no parity, one stop bit and no handshaking. To connect to the serial port, a minimum of three lines are needed - the transmitted data TxD pin3 , the received data RxD pin2 , and Ground pin5.

Data comes out from the computer as positive and negative excursions of the voltage on the TxD pin with respect to the System Ground pin.

This voltage would be somewhere in the fifteen to twelve volt range. Data goes into the computer as positive and negative excursions of the RxD pin.

At least three volts would be required for the computer to get the data without error. When hyperterminal has been correctly setup, whatever you type into its window gets sent out to the wild yonder through the TxD pin.

Whatever gets in through the RxD pin gets displayed on the screen. In the Select one of the installed input languages to use when you start your computer list , click French Canada — Canadian French , and then click OK.

Click the Language bar, and then click French Canada. Match the keyboard on the screen with the physical keyboard to make sure that the layout matches. To check the uppercase characters, click the shift key on the keyboard or on the screen, and match the characters printed on the keyboard.

For more information about the Language bar, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:. Need more help? Expand your skills. Get new features first. Was this information helpful? Yes No.

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