-> /dev/com23 Error:No such file or directory

Forum 2005-2010 (read only) Hardware Troubleshooting
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I try to use arduino in my new laptop, and I have this error message each time I try to upload the program:

Binary sketch size: 4116 bytes (of a 14336 byte maximum)
-> /dev/com23
Error: No such file or directory

I never have this problem with my old laptop and i don't finde any info on this forum. Anyways, To be sure that I didn't make any mistakes, I follow all the steps from How to Get Arduino Running on Windows, from the getting started section of the website. Everything seems ok (usb driver, atmel version, com port ?etc).
Any idea of what is happening?.

I'm using a vaio AR with Windows XP media center edition SP2

I also realize that in this computer, when I close arduino.exe and try to run it again it doesn't execute. There must be a processes open in the task manager.
Any idea on who to solve this? (I lunch the run.bat and it works, but this is an ugly way ?)

Any comments are welcome.
Thanks,
Felix

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Well, it seems that it's working now ?
I went to the Device Manager - chose USB serial port (FTDI Driver)- went to the properties/port settings/Advanced tab and change the COM port number from 23 to 1. And then arduino start to work just fine ?
Thanks anyways,
Felix

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I had this same problem when trying to access Arduino through COM 22 on Windows. I switched to to COM 3 and it worked fine.

It looks like it doesn't like high COM port numbers.