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> It is the onboard-highspeed I/O of the ASUS P55TP4N mainboard !
> It is *not defective* (I'm sure), but somehow buggy, I have build in a
> little I/O card with an original 16C550 AF, and now 
> it works like it should.
> 
> This is also the answer to the question why the U-1496 has not
> shown this strange behaviour, too, because I connected it,
> for testing purposes, to an extra built-in serial card.
> 
> Tomorrow I will test if the U-1496 also shows this behaviour 
> together with the ASUS onboard-I/O (just to know if).
> 
> 
> I've tested another ASUS P55TP4N mainboard, and it's the same !
> The multi I/O on this mainboard (a great mainboard, I think),
> shows also the known behaviour. Maybe it's because it uses
> the SMC controller chip, of which I read one year ago that it
> has some bugs ....
> 
> 
I experience the very same problems with a taiwan motherboard I don't
remember whom is manufactured, but which does share an important feature
with the asus one: Intel 430HX. Maybe the chipset shold be looked at more
thoroughly...

Yours,


lorenzo



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