Thank you Keith, Bob and Steve for the help. I changed the BIOS so that com1 and com2 are set manually instead of being set to AUTO configure. That did the trick. 73, Noel N3NZ -- WWW: http://www.contesting.com/writelog Submissions: writelog@contesting.com Administrative requests: writelog-REQUEST@contesting.com Problems: owner-writelog@contesting.com