In a message dated 01-21-14, John Kelly said to Robert Wolfe:

Hello John,

JK>I think Holger assumed that my IRQ 3 was a motherboard com port that
JK>could be disabled in the BIOS.  That's not so; it's a PCI expansion
JK>card that PCI assigns to IRQ 3, because there is no COM2 on the
JK>motherboard.

I still do assume that the BIOS for your MoBo assigns COM ! and COM 2
as available options. Disable them in the BIOS!

Have a nice day,

Holger

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