Are all USB ports Comm Ports, running XP home ?
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In general, COM ports, also known as serial ports, are completely unrelated to USB ports. USB ports are a standard designed to replace all parallel ports, serial ports, and other type of ports with a single "universal" type for peripherals. \n\nSo to answer your question, the answer is "no".
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Are they still mounted in their cases? If so, and if both PCs have standard network connections, it should be possible to link them using a Cat 5e crossover network cable. XP has the software for this built in. It may be necessary to find a driver for the 98 machine. \nThe RS232 link between them is also a possibility but this will be extremely slow and will not allow the same level of resource sharing as a network link. \n\nIf the motherboards are not in their cases then I doubt that joining them is a possible option.
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There are numerous possibilities for this and would require lots more information to get a specific answer for you.  Try looking at the resources here: http://compnetworking.about.com/cs/homenetworking/a/homenetguide.htm\n\nFor example, which operating systems are on the various machines?  That can make a HUGE difference if they are different (especially Windows XP Pro and Windows XP Home).
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i use this \nhttp://www.hauppauge.com/html/usb_data.htm
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These ports are usually to plug in webcams and low powered USB devices. Most of the USB hard drives or CD drives wont work. Mice n Keyboards depending on their power requirement can work.
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it should be a driver problem at your USB\nopen device manager and check the usb drivers.\nto open device manager right click on "my computer" chose "Manage" and you should see all the drivers that are running.
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I was looking at the D1226H on the Dell website and I do not see a USB bay, but perhaps you have a slightly different model.\n\nUsually USB bays on a monitor are designed for you to be able to plug in external devices and allows you to "daisy-chain" these devices so that the wires from the mouse and/or keyboard do not have to also be run over to the actual PC, making for shorter distances to cover and easier access.\n\nYou can try this: Take a webcam or digital camera and plug it into the USB port on the monitor. The PC should play a sound and tell you "Found New Hardware" if it is an active plug&play port.
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geeze. bmx_matt1234 if that's your answer then stop answering questions.\n\nYou will want to capture the printer port prior to running your DOS app. This should work but not always as XP DOS is not really DOS.\n\nI'm not going to retype the solutions already typed out at these sites, check them out:
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Is there a bios option which needs to be enabled?\nOn-board USB host controller? \nThe way you have matched the wires looks reasonable to me...\nHope this helps!
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You do not require additional drivers with Windows XP, it should sort itself out once the lastest service packs are installed from the Windows Update site. However, the laptop may need to have the chipset program run to update the motherboard (including USB). Visit www.hp.com and follow the links for Drivers and Downloads and locate the chipset drivers for your laptop.
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xp is supposed to suppot all drivers.\nsince yours is old.\ntry and get a driver from you manufacturer.\nit must work.
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There was a short-lived variant of 95 that supposedly had USB support, however it never worked.  That's when 98 popped onto the scene.\n\nTry updating the 95 system to Win98SE and then make your connection.
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yep\n\nU need to download an older version, Ure trying to run the latest version on a non XP SP2 machine
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Go to: Control Panel -> Performance & Maintenance -> System -> Hardware -> Device Manager\n\nAnd check if every device is working correctly. If not, usually it will show different icon on top of it. Then you would need to find the newest or appropriate driver that XP could accept. Usually the website of the original manufacture of your device should have host the driver.
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Xp support all sound cards but you have to have it's driver for xp\nand at this sit thay give a free drivers for old things www.opendrivers.com
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no need to setup usb ports but if u facing some problem then go to system properties and device manager .. check usb version are installed there properly if not then u have to intall frist. go for scan (hardware changes)u find there if any changes. double click on usb 2.0 like this version check for driver and use device enable. may be now u corrected ur problem!!!!!!!!!!
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No, you can't upgrade an existing USB port to be faster that it already is, you need to add entirely new ports using something like your sadly knacked PCMCIA slot.