serial ports

[TeleFragger]

Ok I know serial ports are old.. but my home automation server uses them...

anyway...
I have an old dell dimension 3000
server 2003
1 onboard serial
pci serial card with 2 serial ports

ok so it was all working.... old machine single channel memory and p4 2.8

now I have a hp professional workstation xw8200 that im gonna use... installed server 2003 x64 and put my serial card in..
the operating system sees the serial ports....
but I cant figure out why homeseer (automation software) wont let me use either serial ports on that card.....

card works in the other machine.... card is seen in this machine.. but cant seem to use them....

are there any tools out there to connect to a serial port for troubleshooting?

previously this always just worked... expecially since the OS sees the com3 and com4

 

[engiNURD]

Its probably a driver issue, I'm guessing. Troubleshooting? get a Micropross.