Read Comm Port (Serial Port)

I have soem code that is looking at the Comm port on my laptop....I had this code working great about 9 months ago. I dont know what has changed besides me moving to another laptop.

I dont know if I am missing a reference to a llibrary or what. I think I am....

Right now I am bombing out on the First Line....

DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY IDEAS HERE....


ERROR:
Run time error 424
Object Required

CODE:

MSComm7.InBufferCount = 0 'Flush the Buffer

If (Not MSComm7.PortOpen) Then

Dim Instring As String ' Buffer to hold input string
MSComm7.CommPort = 1 ' Use COM1.
MSComm7.Settings = "9600,N,8,1" ' 9600 baud, no parity, 8 data, and 1 stop bit.
MSComm7.InputLen = 0 ' Tell the control to read entire buffer when Input is used.
MSComm7.PortOpen = True ' Open the port.
MSComm7.Output = "AT" & vbCr ' Send the attention command to the modem. Ensure that the modem responds with "OK".
Buffer$ = Buffer$ & MSComm7.Input ' Wait for data to come back to the serial port.
'MsgBox "SMS Port Open", vbOKOnly, "Port State"
Else
'MsgBox "SMS Port Already Open, It is now closing, and will re-open", vbOKOnly, "Port State"
MSComm7.PortOpen = False
'MSComm7.PortOpen = True
Call Command8_Click
End If