Intel DP35DP serial port?
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Darth Wong
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Intel DP35DP serial port?
Is there any way to hook up RS232 to the Intel DP35DP motherboard? I discovered (after installing it) that it doesn't seem to have a 9-pin RS232 serial port. Do I have to buy a card? The manual labels something as a serial port, but it looks like it's an E-SATA port instead.
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Looking over the specs, it appears to have a serial port header on it, which is what newer mobos have in place of a real serial port taking up valuable real estate on the back I/O panel. It's just some pins sticking up on an out-of-the-way place on the motherboard. I've never actually used one, but I think you should just need one of these.
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From a quick examination of some websites selling the DP35DP, it appears to come without one of the brackets that Dominus Atheos is talking about. So you need to pick one of those up. Rather suprised me, my motherboard from a few years ago came with one of those brackets.
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