hmm there isnt a serial port on this laptop it has usb/firewire/vga output/ s-video output/ 4 usb / NIC/ 56k could the eroor be refrencing any of those? also the bios doesnt let change com settings but I loaded default settings and ran the test again with the same result.
EDIT: looking at it Im guessing its saying 56k on board modem is bad, second opinion?