Error: (8005) Open of serial port has failed

[beaker020]

periodically, every other day or so, the show will stop running and the controll panel will be scrollling very rapidly.

disabling and re-enabling the show fixes the problem temporarily.

S3 V3.1.2 on winxp SP2
this also happened last year with 2.9.X running on the same computer

I've opened a ticket already but thought you guys might have some insight

part of the error log below:

Error: (8005) Open of serial port has failed

Error: (8005) Port already open
While: Open COM3 params baud=57600 parity=n data=8 stop=1 xon=off odsr=off dtr=off rts=off idsr=off
While: Open COM3 params baud=57600 parity=n data=8 stop=1 xon=off odsr=off dtr=off rts=off idsr=off
Trace: SetIntensity
Trace: HandleIO) Musical: C:Documents and Settings*****My DocumentsLight-O-RamaSequencesdontblock.lms.lcs
6:08:22 PM: ERROR WITH SEQUENCE (Invalid procedure call or argument
Trace: XmitData
Trace: FlushCB
Trace: BlockCommit
Trace: Add IO Device) Musical: C:Documents and SettingskathyMy DocumentsLight-O-RamaSequences75_ccr_Jingle-Bells-Techno.lms.lcs
6:08:22 PM: ERROR WITH SEQUENCE (Open of serial port has failed

Error: (8005) Open of serial port has failed

Error: (8005) Port already open
While: Open COM3 params baud=57600 parity=n data=8 stop=1 xon=off odsr=off dtr=off rts=off idsr=off
While: Open COM3 params baud=57600 parity=n data=8 stop=1 xon=off odsr=off dtr=off rts=off idsr=off
Trace: SetIntensity
Trace: HandleIO) Musical: C:Documents and Settings*****My DocumentsLight-O-RamaSequences75_CCR_musicbox dancer.lms.lcs
6:08:22 PM: ERROR WITH SEQUENCE (Open of serial port has failed

Error: (8005) Open of serial port has failed

[-klb-]

You might try installing 3.1.4, as it fixes a memory leak in the control panel that may be contributing to this error.

[beaker020]

Upgraded the S3 and the firmware. Still the same problem.

[Guest wbottomley]

Try upgrading your graphics card drivers.

[DevMike]

Also, try turning off compressed sequences and see if that helps.