hippy
Ex-Staff (retired)
At home I am running PE6 under XP with an RS232 (AXE026) cable connected to COM1.Just out of curiosity, does anyone else here use only a DB9 cable from the COM port, or do you all use USB ?
PE6 itself does not require any drivers; it simply asks Windows to open a COM port and Windows obliges if the port is available for use.They couldn't see how the PE6 could run with out a driver of some sort.
The COM ports do need drivers so that Windows can recognise them and interact with them but, for a bult-in RS232 serial port, those drivers are included as part of Windows and are automatically selected when the PC recognises the hardware for those COM ports is present during installation of Windows.