Perhaps I installed drivers in the wrong order??? There was two of the above unknown 'PCI simple communications controller' entry's, but one easily installed with one of the above Dell drivers. I also read late last night about a possible fix removing Registry References to old drivers? And several fixes were found by doing that.
I have a dell optiplex 755 (tower), it was shipped originally with vista but was recently reinstalled using Windows 7, 64 bit.
THe serial port driver, and something else called 'PCI Simple Communications Controller' (possibly a modem on the motherboard) are listed as 'other devices' in the device manager, with yellow exclamation marks in the icons meaning they have no drivers installed.
Dell does not list any drivers on their usual website where you enter your service tag. I am pretty sure this is a standard Intel Q## chipset. Does anybody know which one exactly, and where I can get the chipset drivers and particularly, the serial port drivers, for 64 bit Windows 7?
Hennes3 Answers
Go to the drivers section on dell's site and enter your service tag:
1) Install the latest chipset drivers from dell's site.2) If that doesn't work, install the latest networking drivers from dell's site.3) If that doesn't work, install the latest video card drivers from dell's site.
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Dell 755 Pci Driver Windows 7
Dell Optiplex 755 Driver Updates
Go to Dell's support site and look up 745C drivers under 'Chipset'. Download the last 2 drivers and install them in your Dell driver directory under Intel PCI Driver Management. Use these to update the drivers in the Device Manager and problem fixed!
Indrek
Optiplex 755 Pci Drivers
The answer is the driver: Intel AMT SOL LMS. For the Serial Port Driver. From the driver list select Windows Vista 64 for Windows 7 / Server 2008 64-Bit.